888 | BENGAL PLANTS. _ .- [ Polygonum 
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1745. Potyconum stricosum R. Br.; F.B.1.v. 47. P. horridum q 
I. ii. 291. 
N. Bengal, Duars; Tippera; Chittagong. 
A scandent, prickly herb. 
1746. PoLyGonuM PEDUNCULARE Wall.; F. B. I. v. 48. 
N. Bengal, Duars; aac. 
A scandent, sparingly prickly herb. 
788. Rumex Linn. 
Perennial or annual herbs, rarely shrubs ; leaves mostly radical 
or cauline, alternate, entire or toothed ; asa hyaline, ochra- 
ceous, ett ultimately disappearing. Flowers hermaphrodite or, 
by abortion, monecious, in axillary saps or in whorls, arranged 
in simple or panicled racemes ; pedicels jointed; bracts ochreate ; 
bracteoles 0. Perianth simple, sepaline ; segments 6, rarely 4, 
erect ; embryo lateral, nearly ee. erates linear or oblong. 
Flowers ee styles terminal ; inner sepals coriaceous in fruit; _ 
leaves never has 
Inner rating Lid narrow- aalowe hardly toothed :— 
ases of leaves always narrowed into the petioles cata tips 
sonality acute ; flowers distinctly pedicelled ; periant ruit brown 
maritimus. 
Bases of leaves always cordate, with a contraction just beyond, tips 
always obtuse; flowers short-pedicelled; perianth in fruit near 
black, much larger nigricans. 
Inner fruiting sepals with wide, much-toothed wings dentatus. 
Flowers moneecious ; styles arising from inner angles of ovary ; inne 
sepals membranous en reticulate in fruit; leaves hastate......vesicarius. 
1747. Rumex MARITIMUS Linn.; F. B. I. v. 59; E. D. RB. 645- 
i. 208. 
ag Ry ngal; E. Bengal. 
An erect annual, 1-4 feet high, in marshy places. Hinds 
Jal-palam ; Beng. Ban-palang. 
1748. Rumex tients Hook. f.; FB. I. v.60, 
