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at the base, membranous, glabrous or adpressedly strigose, mouth 
shortly ciliate. Inflorescence of corymbose or paniculate cymes bear- 
ing about 3—6 obpyramidal or shortly oblong capitula; peduncles 
thickly glandular-hairy ; bracts glandular-hairy and ciliate. Flowers 
rather large, on pedicels as long as the perianth segments. Perianth 
tubular; lobes5,shallow. Stamens 5, minute. Ovary flat; style bifid 
above ; stigmas capitellate. Nwtletbi-convex. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 
XIV. i. 134; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V.47. Polygonum horridum, Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. II, 291; Meissn. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. III. 58, and in DC. 
Prodr. XIV. i. 133; Wall. Cat. 1697 B and D. Polygonum muri- 
catum, Wall. Cat. 1697. Polygonum sagittatum, Don Prodr. 73. 
Penang: Wallich 1697 D in Herb. Calcutt.!.—Distris. India, 
_ Burma, Ceylon, Malayan Archipelago, China. 
8. POLYGONUM PEDUNCULARE, Wall. Cat. 1718 (1828). Stem 
somewhat slender, erect, 3—6dm., grooved, glabrous or with a few 
scattered retrorse prickles. Leaves shortly petioled, lanceolate or ob- 
long acute, base acute, often unequal or truncate or shallow-cordate, 
many nerved, glabrous or minutely scaberulous on the margin and 
midrib beneath; petiole 6—12 mm. long; lamina 2-5—6°3 cm. long 
and 6—25 mm. broad. Stipular-tube considerably shorter than the 
internode, glabrous or minutely prickly or with a few retrorse prickles 
surrounding the base, mouth eciliate. Inflorescence of paniculately 
divaricate slender branches, bearing a few globose or shortly oblong 
heads; peduncles slender, glabrous or sparsely hispid; bracts 
glabrous, eciliate or very shortly and sparingly ciliate: Flowers very 
shortly pedicelled; perianth segments 5,subequal. Stamens5. Ovary 
lenticular; style bifid above; stigmas capitellate. Nwtlet biconvex 
or globose, polished. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XIV. 1. 133 in part; 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I.,i. 1011. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 48. Poly- 
gonum glabratum, Wall. Cat. 6285. 
JOHORE: Ridley 4220! and 11027!. Matacca: Griffith!; 
Stoliczka!. Panane: Ridley 1616!. Panane: Deschamps!. PERAK: 
Wray, 1890! , 2030! ; Kunstler 2498!; Ridley 2965!. SrLANncor (?): 
Ridley 8175!. Sryearore: Wallich 1718!.—Distrip. India, 
Ceylon, Malayan Archipelago, Australia, Philippines, China. 
Family XCVII.—ARISTOLOCHIACE4. 
Herbs or shrubs, often climbing, usually with more or less un- 
pleasantodour. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire or lobed ; stipules 0. 
