o/" Polygonum awe? Fagopyrum. 105 



Stem erect, from 2 or 3 inches to a foot in height, slender, nearly simple, but 

 often forked near the summit, bearing scattered hairs pointing down- 

 wards, the internodes long. Leaves small, ovate or oblong, on short 

 stalks, hairy on both sides, not ciliated. Stipules short, lax, hairy. 

 Flowers small, in small few-flowered, mostly sessile and solitary heads, 

 which are surrounded by 2 or 3 small leaves ; stamens 8 ; stigmas 3, 

 nearly sessile ; bractese minute, paleaceous ; pedicels very short and 

 jointed just below the flower. Fruit 3-angular, longer than the peri- 

 anth, shining, but very minutely punctured, pale brown. 



In conformity with the views of Professor Meisner I have referred this plant 

 to the present section, with the characters of which it does not exactly accord. 

 See Meisn. in Wall. iii. 59. The varieties a. ccespitosum and y. alpestre of 

 Meisn. do not occur among Professor Royle's specimens. 



This plant has exactly the habit of Koenigia islandica. 

 Seran. 



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16. P. punctatum. Don. 



Capitulis parvis terminalibus axillaribusque solitariis vel rarius geminatis 

 semitrigynis, achenio triquetro calyci adglutinato faciebus ellipticis acu- 

 minatis granulatis opacis, calyce 5-fido, ochreis laxis obtusis hispidis 

 non ciliatis, foliis ovatis acutis in petiolum decurrentibus glabris antrorsiim 

 aculeato-serrulatis subtiis glanduloso-punctatis : superioribus sessilibus 

 amplexicaulibus, caule glabro. 



P. punctatum. Don, Pi-od. 72. 



P. perforatum. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 59. 



Stem erect, 5 or 6 inches high, solitary, smooth, glabrous, nearly simple. 

 floot fibrous. Leaves ovate, acute, narrowing into a rather long winged 

 petiole, the upper ones sessile and subamplexicaul, glabrous, the mar- 

 gins fringed with minute spinous hairs pointing forwards, and having 

 numerous minute glands upon the under surface. Stipules brown, rather 

 short, blunt, obliquely truncate, hairy below. Flowers small, 5-sepalous, 

 8-androus ; style 1, long and trifid above; bracteee large, ovate, pointed, 

 glandular, as long or longer than the flower ; the heads small, terminal 

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