60 CXIX. POLYGONACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) [Rumex. 
the other Indian annual species by its broad irregularly-toothed wings, the teeth of 
which are not hooked.—A specimen from Oude has very narrow wings, and thus 
shows a transition to nigricans. I cannot in Herbarium specimens distinguish large 
specimens of this with petioled floral leaves cordate at the base from states of 
R. nepalensis. Except for its shorter pedicels, this would pass for R. obtusifolius, L. 
5. R. nepalensis, Spreng. Syst. ii. 159; perennial ?, tall, branched, 
radical leaves large oblong ovate-oblong or triangular-ovate acute or obtuse 
base widely or narrowly cordate, upper sessile or petioled similar or with 
narrowed bases, racemes elongate, whorls distant, valves orbicular-ovate one 
or all with an oblong tubercle broadly winged, wing pectinately toothed 
strongly reticulate, teeth usually hooked at the tip. Boiss. FT. Orient. 1v. 
1011; Wall. Cat. 1728; Meissn. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 64, in Linnea 
xiv. 192, and in DC. Prodr. xiv.1. 55; Wight Ic.t.1810. R. Roxburghianus, 
Schultes fil. Syst. vii. 1402 (not of Wallich). R. hamatus, Trevir. in Nov. 
Aet. Leopold. xiii. 174; Meissn. in DC. L c. 56. R. ramulosus, Meissn. in 
DC.1. c. R.peregrinus, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 1, v. 46. R. tuberosus, Roxb. 
in Herb. Willd. (ex Meissn.). R. uncinatus, Hort. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Bhotan to Kashmir, alt. 4-9000 ft. (12,000 on the 
Chenab, Stewart), Kuasta Mrs. ? WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats from the 
Concan to the Nilghiris.—DisTRIB. Westward to Asia Minor, Java, S. Africa. 
Root with tuberous fibres (Boissier). Stem 2-4 ft., stout, erect. Lower leaves 
often 6-14 by 3-5 in., undulate or not; petiole very slender, upper petioled or sessile. 
—Probably not specifically different from R. pulcher, L. 
Sect. II. Acetosa, Tournef. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. 
Styles arising from the angles of the ovary, inner sepals (valves) much 
enlarged, membranous, entire, midrib with a deflexed tubercle near its base. 
Leaves hastate. 
6. R. scutatus, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1015; perennial, poly- 
gamous, papillose, stem creeping below branched, leaves all long-petioled 
hastately cordate or sub-3-lobed lateral lobes rounded suddenly contracted 
into the narrower midlobe, racemes very slender, whorls 2—4-fld. distant, 
valves cordate at the base. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 69; Campd. 
Rum. 132, t. 2, f£. 6. R. hastifolius, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Caue. i. 290. 
Western HIMALAYA; Simla, TAomson.—DisTRIB. Persia and westward to 
Middle and South Europe and N. Africa. 
Somewhat glaucous. Branches slender, 1-2 ft., lexuous, dichotomously divided, 
ending in long lax panicles. Leaves 1-2 in. diam., the lobes all broad. Flowers 
small; pedicels jointed about the middle, elongating in fruit.— The specimens are not 
in fruit. 
7. R. hastatus, Don Prodr. .74; glaucous, polygamous, branches 
erect from a stout shrubby base all petioled rhombic deltoid or hastately 
3-lobed with the lobes all narrow, racemes very slender panicled, whorls 
few-fld. distant, valves orbicular notched at both ends.  Meissn. in Wall. Pl. 
As. Rar. ii. 61, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 1. 72; Wall. Cat. 1729. 
Himataya; from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 1-8000 ft. Buoran, Booth.— 
DisTRIB. Affghanistan. . 
Rootstock woody, often as thick as the thumb ; branches much divided, slender, 
1-2 ft.,obscurely angled. Leaves j-1 in., coriaceous, nerveless. Racemes ending the 
branches, rachis filiform’; flowers very small, pedicels lengthening in fruit. Valves 
3-4 in. diam., often pink, very delicately veined. 
8. R. acetosa, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv.1015; perennial, dioecious, 
