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4, PoLyGonum FLAccIDUM, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XIV. 1. 107 
(1856). Stem erect or ascending, 6—9 dm., simple or branched, glab- 
rous or more or less strigose, grooved and often glandular. Leaves 
shortly petioled, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, many 
nerved, glabrous or hispid or strigose on the midrib, margin, and 
nerves on both surfaces, glandular, 6°3—15 cm. long and 1:5—3°8 cm. 
broad. Stipular-tube much shorter than the internode, adpressedly 
strigose, often glandular; mouth truncate, beset with long stout cilia. 
Inflorescence of long filiform branched decurved spiciform racemes ; 
peduncles glabrous, often glandular ; racemes 5—16 cm. long; bracts 
distant, tubular, glabrous, often glandular, shortly ciliate. Flowers 
3 or more in the axil of each bract, on pedicels as long as or longer 
than the perianth segments. Perianth segments 5, pink, subequal, 
thickly glandular. Stamens 7—8, subequal. Ovary trigonous. Style 
trifid almost to the base; stigmas capitellate. Nwtlet small, trigo- 
nous, black, granulate. Boiss. Fl. Orient. IV. 1029; Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 39. Polygonum tenellum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 289. 
Polygonum mite?, Wall. Cat. 1721, 1721-1. Polygonum Reottlerc, 
Roth Nov. Pl. Sp. 205. 
PERAK: King’s Collector 809!, 2503!; Ridley 2964!. Pawanc: 
Ridley 1335! .—Distr. India and Malayan Archipelago. 
5. Potyconum Hypropiesr, Linn Sp. Pl. 361 (1753). An an- 
nual herb with stout erect or ascending stem; branches obscurely 
grooved, glabrous and often glandular. Leaves subsessile or very 
shortly petioled, lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, glabrous or with 
midrib nerves and margin more or less scabrid, often glandular, 
5—9 cm. long and 1—2 cm. broad. Sétipular-tube much shorter than 
the internode, membranous, glabrous or sparingly strigose, mouth 
truncate, shortly ciliate. Inflorescence of terminal and axillary, 
simple or branched, slender flexuous spiciform racemes; bracts 
more or less irregularly distant, tubular, glabrous, glandular or 
eglandular, shortly ciliate or eciliate. Flowers 2 or more in the axil 
of each bract, on pedicels as long as the perianth segments. Perianth 
pink, segments 5, thickly glandular, 2 outer narrower than the three 
inner. Stamens 5—8; anthers minute. Ovary trigonous; style trifid 
above; stigmas capitellate. Nwuilet trigonous, black, granulate. 
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XIV. 1. 109; Boiss. Fl. Orient. IV. 1029; ‘ 
Fl. Dan. t. 1576. Polygonum Donii, Wight Ic. t. 1801. 
Neeri Sempian: Ridley 10024! Pananc: Ridley 2254!.— 
Distris. Cosmopolitan. 
