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20 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Stipular-tube much shorter than the internodes, sparsely adpressedly 
strigose, truncate ; mouth beset with stiff cilia considerably shorter 
than the tube. Inflorescence of branched spiciform racemes; pedun- 
cles slender, glabrous; racemes 1°3—2°5 cm., erect; bracts tubular, 
glabrous, stoutly ciliate. Flowers minute, 5 or more in the axil of each 
bract, on pedicels as long as or longer than the perianth segments. 
Perianth eglandular, segments 5, subequal. Stamens 5—8, very small. 
Style bifid above ; stigmas capitellate. Nut minute, lenticular, black 
polished, included in the perianth. Boiss. Fl. Orient. IV. 1029; Mig. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 1002; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 36; Polygonum 
Posumbu, Wall. Cat. 1722. Polygonum ienellum, Bl. Bijdr. 530. Poly- 
gonum hypostictum Miq. in Herb. Hohen. 971. Polygonum strictum, 
Allioni, Wight Ic. t. 1800. 
PERAK: Kunstler810!. PAHANG: Ridley 1616!.—Dister. Ku- 
rope, Temperate and Tropical Asia, Australia. Introduced into 
America. 
3. PoLYGONUM BARBATUM, Linn.; Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XIV. 1. 
104 (1856). Branches stout, erect, glabrous, slightly grooved, 3—12dm. 
Leaves very shortly petioled, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate , acuminate 
at both apex and base, glabrous or sparsely strigose or strigose only 
on the margins or midrib beneath, 9°5—15 cm. long, |-3—- 2:5 em. broad. 
Stipular-tube much shorter than the internodes, membranous, glab- 
rous or with adpressed strigose hairs ; mouth truncate, with stiff cilia 
longer or shorter than the tube. Inflorescence of branched spiciform 
racemes ; peduncles slender, glabrous or more or less strigose. Ra- 
cemes about 5:7 cm. long; bracts crowded, tubular, glabrous, stiffly 
ciliate. Flowers 4 or more in the axil of each bract ; pedicels as long 
as or longer than the perianth segments. Perianth white, eglandular, 
very small; segments 5, subequal. Stamens 5—8, unequal, alternat- 
ing with minute basal glands. Ovary trigonous. Style trifid above, 
stigmas capitellate. Nutlet trigonous, blackish brown, polished, 
included in the perianth. Bab. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 100; 
Wall. Cat. 1708; Wight Ic. t. 1798; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 999. 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 37. Polygonum hispidum, Ham. Poly- 
gonum rivulare, Koen.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 290; Grah. Cat. Bomb. 
Pl. 172. Polygonum Hornemanni, Meissn. in DC. 1. c. 107. 
Jonor: Ridley 11024!. Manacoa: Griffth!. PEnane: Curtis 
2785!. Perak: at Ipoh, Curtis 3179!. SELancor: Goodenough 
10461!. Sryearore: Hullett 10!; Goodenough 1604!; Ridley 37561, 
10729!.—Distriz. Tropical Asia and Africa, and Australia. 
