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much-wrinkled on the underside ; flowers umbellate, small pink, on 

 an axillary peduncle, as long as the leaf ; pedicels slender, nearly as 

 long as the peduncle; flower 4^ lines long, filaments 3-long, 

 exserted, fruit linear-oblong, sulcated, pubescent, tuberculated 

 along the ribs from top to bottom. On Sewnere Fort and the 

 Ghauts east of Bombay ; flowers in September. 



CIX. POLYGONACE^. 

 1. POLYGONUM, Linn. 



1. Glabrum, Willd, ii, 447. — Annual, suberect, smooth, reddish; 

 leaves narrow-lanceolate, short-petioled, tapering to each end, 

 smooth on both sides, entire, 5 to 7 inches long ; stipules ragged ; 

 racemes of flowers long, slender, and smooth ; flowers numerous, 

 rose-coloured, heptandrous ; style 3-cleft, seed ovate, compressed. 

 A native of ditches, rivulets, &c. ; pretty common. Roxb. Fl Ind. 

 ii, 287; Rheede Mai. x, t. 80; and xii, (. 77. Native name 

 " Ruktroora," a name also applied to a species of Ebenacese and a 

 Rhamnus used medicinally by the Ghaut people. Wight Ic. 1799. 



2. RivuiiAKE, Koenig Mss. — Annual ; branches erect ; leaves 

 narrow-lanceolate, pretty smooth, 6 to 6 inches long; stipules 

 short, ciliated ; flowers octandrous, seed triangular. Roxb. Fl Ind. 

 ii, 290 ; Grows in the same sort of situations as the preceding. 



3. Chinense, Willd. ii, 453.— Scandent, flexuose ; leaves 

 oblong, truncate at the base; bracts auricled; peduncles sub- 

 panicled, terminal; flowers in globular pedicelled heads, white. 

 An alpine plant, confined to the Ghauts; flowers octandrous. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1806. 



4. Eleqans, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 291. — A very small species, 

 prostrate; stems numerous-spreading; leaves alternate, bifarious, 

 very shortly-petioled, lanceolate, smooth ; stipules membranaceous 

 with torn and ciliated margins ; flowers axillary, very small, rose- 

 coloured. On waste ground where water has lodged ; banks of 

 the Nerbudda. Syn. P linifolium. Roth nov. sp. 207 ; P indicum, 

 Roth; Wight Ic.^. 1808. 



ex. AMARANTACE^. 



1, DEERINIGA, R. Br. 



1, Baccata, Moq. in DC. Prod. 13, p 236.— Stem suffruticosej 

 angled, decumbent ; leaves 2 to 3 inches long, ovate or cordate- 

 ovate acute; spikes elongated, loosely branched; flowers very 

 shortly-pedicelled, solitary ; sepals at length reflexed ; spikes 3 to 

 4 inches long, slender. Syn. Celosia baccata, Retz. Obs. v, p 23 ; 



