o/" Polygonum a«6? Fagopy rum. lH 



P. Hagei. Royle MSS. 



Stem ribbed, erect, sufFruticose, alternately branched, hollow, scabrose-pilose, 

 the internodes long. Leaves lanceolate, prolonged into a linear point, 

 silky beneath, and downy above, ciliated, on very short petioles. Stipules 

 long, lax, torn, hairy, shorter than the internodes, but much longer than 

 the petioles. Flowers in large leafless panicles, the branches of which 

 are nearly simple ; the bractese about equal to the erect pedicels, 3 — 6- 

 flowered, the flowers 8-androus trigynous, their segments roundish, ovate, 

 blunt, the 2 exterior ones smaller ; the pedicels jointed at a short distance 

 below the flower. Fruit castaneous, triangular, about | longer than the 

 calyx, very minutely punctured. 



Nagkanda. 



24. P. polystachyum. ff^all. 



" Paniculis subsimplicibus, racemis folio suff"ultis pedunculatis discretis graci- 

 libus, bracteis 1 — 2-floris, pedicellis patulis vel nutantibus bractea triplo 

 longioribus, calycis magni laciniis obtusis inaequalibus, interioribus 3-or- 

 bicularibus exterioribus 2 ovalibus dimidio minoribus, ochreis petiolo 

 internodioque longioribus, foliis oblongis long^ acuminatis, caule fruti- 

 coso." — Meisn. 



P. polystachyum. Meisn. in Wall. iii. 61. 



a. glabrum. Meisn. " Omnibus partibus glaberrimis." 



/3. pubescens. Meisn. " Caule pedunculis ochreis bracteis petiolisque pube- 

 rulis vel pilosis, foliis supr^ glabris subtias velutinis." — Meisn. 



Stem woody, branched, solid, glabrous, the internodes short. Leaves oblong, 

 pointed, glabrous, with the nerves minutely downy beneath, ciliated, the 

 petioles very short, and slightly winged. Stipules very long, nearly 

 entire, much longer than the internodes, nearly glabrous, with numerous 

 strong prominent slightly hairy ribs. Flowers in large slightly-leafy 

 panicles, the branches of which are nearly sin)ple and slightly hairy, the 

 bractese ^ or | shorter than the patent or even recurved pedicels, which 

 are apparently jointed very near to the flower, about 2-flowered, flowers 

 8-androus, trigynous, large, the 3 interior segments roundish, the exte- 

 rior much narrower and ovate. Fruit too young for description. 



