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A CENSUS OF the INDIAN POLYGONUMS, 
No. 12051 ! (9) Madura District; Kodaikanal Lake 
Pulney Hills, Bourne^ No 6g6 I 
V. — Bengal: ( 5 ) North Bengal; Siliguri, Kurz 1 Sukna, Gamble^ 
2964 B1 Dalkajhar, 500 ft, C, B. Clarke, No. 36871 
A! (6) Central Bengal; Faridpur, C. B, Clarke, 
No» 7488 ! 
VL— North-West Himalaya: (22) Kumaon ; Bhim Tal, 4,400 
ft., Strachey & Win^-erhottom, No. 7 1 
VIL— Nepal : Wallich,’HQ, 1697 A! 
VIIL- — Eastern Himalaya: no specimens in Calcutta Herbarium. 
IX. — Assam: (4) Khasia Hills; Mann^ No. 347 ! Kalapani, 5,000 
ft.,C, B, Clarke, No. 19031 B ! (6) Naga Hills ; Jolabusty, 
Prat'nls collector, No. 330 1 (9) Sylhet ; Wallich^ 
No. 1697 B ! C. B, Clarke, 7133 1 
X.— Burma : (i) Chittagong Hill Tracts; King^s collector, 
Nos. g8 and 556 ! (3) Chin Hills ; Abdul Huk ! (6) Shan, 
Hills ; Bhamo, Abdul Huk\ 
XL— Malay Peninsula : Pulau Penang, Wallich, No. 1697 D! 
Polygoimni prseteriiiissuni Hook. f. 
VIIL — ^Eastern Himalaya: T.ThomsonX Kurz\ GammieX 
IX.— Assam ; (4) Khasia Hills; Maophlang, 5,500 ft., C.B. 
Clarke, No. 18584 A ! 
All the specimens in the Calcutta Herbarium show glandular 
peduncles, although in some the glands have been almost entirely 
rubbed off, so that the peduncles appear on casual inspection as if 
glabrous, 
63 , ^Polygoiiimi Mrmaiiicuiii sp. nov. 
An annual herb with slender procumbent stem, faintly grooved and 
with angles slightly puberulous or glabrous ; internodes about 3*5“*^ 
6 5 cm. long. Lower leaves petioled, hastate, acute, upper leaves 
sessile amplexicaule, glabrous on both surfaces or faintly scabrid on the 
veins above and below ; petiole 2— 3’5 cm. long ; lamina 2‘5-“6’5 cm. 
long, •8-— 2 cm. broad. Stipules small spathelike, glabrous, eciliate, 
4 — 8 mm. long. Inflorescence of about 3 — ’6 slender simple axillary 
and branched terminal flaccid racemes, about 8'5-— 17 cm. long, each 
bearing about 6— ’2 distant bracts. Bracts tubular, glabrous, 
eciliate, unilaterally acuminate, *7 cm. long, with 2-4 flowers in the axil 
of each, exserted on pedicels 8 mm, long. Flowers small, about 4 mm. 
across or less. Perianth-s&gm^iit^ 5, eglandular. Stamens 8 , unequal 
Ovary triquetrous, smooth ; stigma trifid. \ 
