in height, forming a rather spreading bush. Like other 
Buckwheats it is a favourite resort of Bees. 
It is so much like the Fagopyrum triangulare of Nepal, 
that it may be easily mistaken for it. But that species has a 
regularly forked inflorescence, the arms of which are longer 
and more slender, and never in threes as far as we can per- 
ceive. The fruit too of P. triangulare is said to be blunt 
edged instead of sharp edged. 
It is impossible not to be struck with the great resem- 
blance between the inflorescence of these two Buckwheats, 
and that of many species of Sea Lavender (Statice) ; and we are 
inclined to believe that this indicates an unsuspected relation 
between Leadworts (Plumbaginacex) and Buckwheats, and 
consequently between the Cortusal and Silenal Alliances. 
(See Vegetable Kingdom, pp. 495 and 637). If we compare 
Statice with Fagopyrum, we find in both cases a central free 
one-seeded placenta, a superior radicle, a one-celled fruit 
made up of several valvate carpels ; and again in Glaux we 
have a Primwort (Primulacea) absolutely apetalous, with the 
coloured calyx and astivation of a Polygonum. If this view 
of the question should be correct, it will enable us to bring 
the Hypogynous and Perigynous subclasses of Exogens into 
a closer parallelism than ever, and will confirm the propriety 
of not allowing the monopetalous structure any higher value 
than what may be taken as a useful but mere characteristic 
of a Natural order. 
