of Polygonum and Fagopyrum. 109 



of the leaves in that species is 4^ inches long and 3 inches broad. That plant 

 has the heads two together, the peduncles hairy, the flowers 6 — 8-androus, 

 the bracteae and segments of the calyx acute, and the stipules hairy. 

 Rogee in Kunawur. 



Subsect. Corymbocephalon. Meisn. 

 2 1 . P. chinense. Linn. 



" Octandrum semitrigynum, corymbis simplicibus paniculatisve, pedunculis 

 scabriusculis, bracteolis foliaceis cordatis suffultis, foliis subcoriaceis 

 ovatis vel oblongis acuminatis basi attenuatis cordatisve, plils miniis 

 pellucido-punctatis, petiolis brevibus basi appendice foliaceo reniformi 

 subdeciduo utrinque auriculatis, caule sufFruticoso erecto ramoso glabro." 

 — Meisn. 



P. chinense. Linn. Sp. PI. I. 520. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 60. 



«. Thunbergianum. Meisn. 



P. chinense. Meisn. Mon. 60. 



Stem erect, smooth, striated, branched. Leaves ovate and acuminate, rounded 

 and slightly cordate at their base, the margin obsoletely crenulated and 

 crisped, glabrous, the nerves beneath being sometimes downy, the 

 petioles short, with 2 often very fugacious reniform auricles at their 

 base. Stipules semicylindrical, very long, lax, white, often torn, glabrous, 

 with numerous parallel nerves, their base glandular. Flowers white, in 

 small heads aggregated in a corymbose manner, 5-sepalous, the segments 

 acute ; 8-androus, semitrigynous ; the bracteae paleaceous, about equal to 

 the flowers ; the peduncles covered with minute glandular pubescence, 

 and a large white reniform appendage at each subdivision. Fruit about 

 ^ the length of the calyx, triquetrous, the faces ovate-lanceolate and 

 granulated. 



B hud raj. 



y. brachiatum. Meisn. ? 



P. patens Don, Prod. 73. Meisn. Mon. 60. 



Stem procumbent. Leaves ovate-cordate, the nerves hairy beneath, the mar- 



