Rumex. | CIX, POLYGONACEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT), Ete 
77! Schimper, 1067! 1484! Plowden ! Parkyns! British East Africa: Ndoli, 
Gregory. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Johnston! Meyer, 146, 
154, 
Var. usambarensis, Engl. in Glied. Veg. Usambara, 61. Stem often 40 ft. long, 
winding in and out amongst the bush, with a tendency to root between the stones. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Mlalo and Kwa Mshuza, 
ex Engler. 
Also in Arabia. 
6. R. vesicarius, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 336. Stem herbaceous, 
branching at the base. Leaves deltoid or ovate, usually cordate at the 
base, rather fleshy, minutely papillose when dry, about 1} in. long and 
1 in. wide; petiole of lower leaves up to 1} in. long. Panicles terminal ; 
peduncles slender, articulated about the middle, 1-flowered or with 2° 
terminal connate flowers; bracts about as long as the peduncles, 
lanceolate, scarious. Perianth-segments 4 lin. in diam. in fruit, sub- 
orbicular, cordate at both ends, reddish, woody in the centre, mem- 
branous and reticulated on the wings, not nerved at the margins. 
Achene triquetrous or almost winged, acute, cream-coloured, 14 lin. 
long.—Campd. Monogr. Rumex, 129,t. 3, fig. 1; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 
xiv. 70; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1017; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
ili. 1A, 17, fig. 8, D-E; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 
154, 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast region, Bent! Somaliland: Golis Range, Drake- 
Brockman, 234! 
Also from Egypt and Greece to Afghanistan. Very closely allied to 2. roseus, 
Linn., which has the fruiting-perianth nerved around its margin. 
7. R. nepalensis, Spreng. Syst. ii. 159. Perennial. Stems 
moderately stout, 3-4 ft. high, divaricately branched. Basal leaves 
oblong, rounded or cordate at the base, 1 ft. or more long, long-petioled, 
cauline from ovate-oblong with a cordate base to lanceolate. Hacemes 
forming long lax panicles, with reduced leaves in the lower part only ; 
flowers many in a whorl ; pedicels deflexed, longer than the flowering 
perianth, articulate below the middle. Inner perianth-segments } in. 
long in fruit, ovate-cordate, margined with hooked teeth as long as the 
segment is broad, not tubercled, or with a tubercle on 1 or 3 segments. 
Nutlet 14 lin. long, ovoid-triquetrous.— Wight, Ic. Pl. t.1810; Meisn. 
in DC. Prodr. xiv. 55; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 60, and in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. vii. 214. 2. obtusifolius, T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 
645, not of Linn.; var., Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 141; var. 
Steudelii, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 214. &. Steudelii, Hochst. 
in Schimp. Fl, Abyss. Exsice. 380, and ex A. Br. in Flora, i. 278, 1841 ; 
Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 204; Britten & Rendle in Gregory, 
Great Rift Valley, 397; Walp. Ann. iii. 292; var. cordifolius, A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 229. 2. steudelianus, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 
56; var. cordifolius, Meisn. 1.c. 
