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RHEUM PALMATUM. 
OFFICINAL RHUBARB 
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W-dtOl 
SrNONTMJ. Rhabarbamm. Pharm.Lond.^s' E. 
verum Med 
Hope^ L inf. cit. 
acuminatis, Lin. Spec. Plant, p. 
tionem in Ja, Philofoph. Londi 
in PL rarior. hort. TJpfal fafc. r. item 
Rheum palm. 
281. 
Gonf. eel. Ho 
vol 
55^ ^• 
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Rliabarbarum 
fol. palmatis 
)e defcrip- 
Linn 
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XI 
J 
Sandemani 
Rl?eo palma 
Milleri in ejus Illujlr. Syji. Se 
de 
Clafs Enneandria. Ord. Trigynia. Un. Gen. Plant, xo^ 
EJfy Gen. Ch. Cal o. Cor. 6-fida, perfiftens. Bern, i, triquetrum 
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6/^. (7.^. R. foliis palmatis acuminatis fcabriufculis : fmu bafeos dilatato 
petiolis fupra obfolete fuleatis marglne rotuiidatis. Aiton.Hort.Kew^ 
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TH E root is perennial, thick, of an oval fhape, and fends off long 
and internally of ' a deep 
tapermg branches 
yellow 
the ftalk 
ally 
brow 
ered, round, hollow, jointed, fheathed 
flightly fcored, branched towards the top, and rifes 
fix 
roundifh 
height of 
A H 
ght feet: the radical leaves are numerous, large, rough, of __ 
and deeply cut into lobes, and irregularly^pointed 
fegments, and ftand upon long fmooth round footflalks : the 
which proceed from the ftalk 
fupply with membranous iheathes 
at the joints, which they 
fucceflively fmaller to- 
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wards the upper part of the fteni : the flowers terminate the branche., 
which they furround in numerous clufters, forming a kind of fpike, 
and appear in April and May : the corolla divides into fix obtufe 
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fegments, which 
fmall 
are of a greenifh white colour 
d 
the calyx is wanting : the filaments are nine, flender, ab 
ely 
the length of the corolla, and furniihed with oblong double anthei 
the ftyle is very fh 
and terminated by three refleded ft 
ma 
t-rx m. 
the germen becomes a triangular feed, with membranous marpins of 
a reddifti colour. - * - - ^ - - o 
No 
10. 
It is a native of Tartary in Afia 
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