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A CENSUS OF THE INDIAN POLYGONUMS. 
No. 13963! (13) Kistawar and Badrawar ; Badrawar, 
4-10,000 ft, Stoliczka \ ('15) Kunawar ; Brandis ^ 
No. 2749! Pangi, Brandis^ No. 4001! (18) Chamba ; 
Nurpur, 4,000-5,500 ft., Schlagintweit\ (20) Simla, 
7,000 ft., Schlich ! (22) Kumaon ; Near Milum, 11,500 1 
ft., Stvachey & Winter bottom^ No. 21 ! Dhauli Valley, 
Duthie 1 
10 . ^Polyg’onum Bellardi All. (FI, Pedem. ii, 20s, t. go,f. 2), - 
Annual, glabrous; stem erect, 20 to 45 cm. long, branches slender I 
grooved, nodes distant. Leaves sessile, elliptic, lanceolate, acute, | 
2 to 3'8 cm. long, '4 to •7 cm. broad, flat, midrib distinct, lateral | 
nerves obscure or none- Stipules membranous, hyaline, lacerate in 1 
their upper half, with a few prominent nerves. Flowers on short j 
pedicels as long as the perianth, in cl usters of 2 to 3 in the axils of j 
tubular hyaline few-nerved slightly lacerate bracts, distant on a || 
long slender raceme. Nutlet trigonous, included, finely punctate or 1 
shining. * 1 
I.— North-West Frontier: (i) Afghan border; Kurram ! 
district, Aitchison, No. 656 I (2) British Baluchistan; j 
Rakh Darkhel, Peshin Valley, 4,800 ft., Lace^ No. 3317. j 
VI. -North-West HimxlayA: (9) Chitral and Dir; Dir, 6,000 I 
ft., HarrisSj Duthie^s No. 16584! (i 1) Hazara, 3,500 ft,, 
Stewart^ No. 443 ! 
11, Polygonum setosum Jacq. (Obs, m, 6*, t, 57). 
Shrubby, glabrous, 15 to 30 cm. high, more or less tufted. RooU 
stock woody, as thick as the little finger with bases of old shoots; 
branches 15 to 30 cm., erect or ascending, fiexuous or geniculate, terete 
below, triquetrous above, grooved ; internodes elongate, lower shorter 
than the leaves, upper longer than the leaves, shortened again in the 
inflorescence. Leaves very shortly petioled, distinctly articulated with 
the pulvillus ; lamina linear-lanceolate or subulate, 2 to 4' 5 cin. long, *4 
to ’8 cm. broad, mucronate, margin revolute, midrib distinct with many 
parallel veins running obliquely forward from the midrib to merge in 
the margin. Stipules membranous, sub-hyaline, lacerate, setose at the 
mouth, with many nerves, at first tubular, then longitudinally split ante- 
riorly. Flowers on short pedicels, articulated below the perianth, in 
clusters of 2 to 3 in the axils of infun dibuliform slightly lacerate bracts 
on at first somewhat dense but latterly interrupted terminal racemes. 
Peri ant h-tuh^, short, segments in two series, 2 outer and 3 inner, sub- 
equal. Stamens inserted on the throat, 3 large and 5 small. Nut 
trigonous, polished. 
