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Hekbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leae Margins Entire. 



Petals None. 



Polygonum alatum, 



POLYGONACE^. 



F. B. I. V. 41. 



The Plains from 



2-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 



small to medium-size, annual, very variable, the 

 smaller forms like the last species, but with short 

 broad-winged leaf-stalks ; leaves in the small form 

 l-^ in., in the large 1-3 in., broadly ovate, smooth, 

 rarely hairy, blunt or short-pointed, abruptly or 

 gradually narrowed into a broadly winged and 

 sometimes eared leaf stalk, stipules tubular, hairy 

 or glandular below, not fringed with bristles ; flowers 

 minute, white, purplish or red in heads, |-|^in. diam., 

 heads in the axils of leaves on stalks, glandular- 

 hairy at the top, bracts flat, smooth, calyx 4-5-fid, 

 stamens 6-8, style long with one or two arms, 

 stigmas rounded ; nut enclosed in the calyx, 

 3-angled, or flattened circular, minutely dotted. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple . 



large, rootstock perennial, stem annual, grooved, 

 pale, smooth or young parts softly velvety ; leaves 

 3-5 in., lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, long-point- 

 ed, smooth, short stalked, stipules long, tubular, 

 loose, upper part soon falling off, not bristly : 

 flowers i^-^ in. diam., white or pale pink, nume- 

 rous in terminal crowded broad pyramidal branch- 

 ing racemes, 12 in. long or more, bracts short, 

 blunt, flower stalks much longer than the bracts. 

 Jointed close to or further from the flower, calyx 

 6-segmented, segments nearly divided to the base, 

 inner segments broad tipped, stamens 8, rarely 

 less, alternating with glands when present, styles 

 3 ; nut i in. long, shining, pale, sharply 3-angled, 

 longer than the calyx. Aitchison states that it is 

 eaten raw and cooked, and tastes like rhubarb. 



Polygonum polystachyum, see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



Polygonum strigosum, 

 Polygonum sagittatum, 

 Polygonum alpinum, 



POLYGONACE^. 

 F. B. I. V. 49. 



Himalaya 7-12,000 ft. 

 Kulu to Kashmir 

 (Thomson). 



Polygonum tortuosum, 



see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, StiiMate, Simple. 



