PLANTS OF THE FUN JAB. 



215 



Herbs, erect, with Alternate Stipqlate Simple Leaves. 

 Leap Margins Entire. 



Polygonum tij^dropiper, 

 Water-pepper. 



Fani-maricha. 



PoLYGONACEiE. 



F. B. I. V. 39. 



The Plains to 7,000 ft. 

 Simla, Nal Dehra (Col^ 



lett). 

 Hazara (Barrett). 



Petals None. 



medium-size, annual, stout, smooth, stems some- 

 times prostrate and rooting at the joints, often 

 glandular, joints often swollen, branched ; leaves 

 2-3 in., lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, narrowed 

 to the base, dotted with glands, midrib with minute 

 hairs, stipules tubular, ^ in., smooth or minutely- 

 hairy Avith flattened hairs, swollen out near the 

 middle, fringed with short bristles ; flowers pink or 

 red in very slender drooping zigzag racemes, 2-3 in. 

 long, with gaps along the raceme and leafy at 

 the base, bracts smooth, with or without glands, 

 tubular, mouth naked or minutely bristly, calyx 

 of 5 segments, with glands, stamens 6, styles 2 or 

 3, ununited nearly to the base ; nuts minutely 

 dotted, in the 2-styled flowers circular and flatten- 

 ed in the 3-styled, 3-angled. 



Polygonum fiaccidum, 



POLYGONACE^E. 



F. B. I. V. 39. 

 The Plains to 4,000 ft. 

 in wet places. 



very like the last species, but larger with longer, 

 broader, and more pointed leaves. 



Polygonum glaciaie, 



POLYGONACE^E. 



F. B. I. V. 41. 



Himalaya 8-12,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



very small, annual, weak, smooth, nearly succu- 

 lent, branches spreading from the root ; leaves i-f 

 in., broadly ovate, apex blunt, long stalked, winged 

 above only, stipules short, smooth, cup-shaped, 2- 

 lobed or not ; flowers minute, white or pale j)urple 

 in sessile or stalked heads i-J in. diam., stalk 

 minutely glandular at the tip, bracts broadly ovate, 

 blunt, smooth, flat, calyx 4-6 lobed, transparent, 

 lobes nearly equal, blunt, stamens -5, no glands, 

 styles 3, united ; nut minute, closely included in 

 the calyx-tube, black, striated. 



