513 CIT. POLYOOXACE.E. 



almost without prickles except a few below the stipules. Leaves 3-4| 

 by |-1 in., obloiig-lauceolate, acute, tapering at the base ; petioles 

 i-| in. long, often M'ith minute prickles which sometimes extend along the 

 juidrib beneath. Bracts lanceolate, subciliate. Poh/gonum nilagiricum 

 (sp.), C. B. Clarke, MSS. in Herb. Kew. 



Kanaka : Supa (N. Kanara), Talbof, 1383, ex Gage, Census Ind. Polyg.— Distrib. 

 ludia (W. Peninsula). 



4. RUMEX, Linn. 



Perennial or annual herbs (rarely shrubs). Leaves mostly radical or 

 cauline, alternate ; stipules hyaline, ocreate, often disappearing in age. 

 I'lowers hermaphrodite or monoecious, in axillary clusters or in whorls, 

 arranged in simple or panicled racemes ; pedicels jointed ; bracts ocreate; 

 bracteoles 0. Perianth-segments 6 (rarely 4), the inner accrescent, 

 entire or toothed; the midrib or disk often enlarged or tuberculate. 

 Stamens 6 ; filaments short ; anthers oblong. Ovary 3-gonous ; ovule 

 solitary ; styles 3 ; stigmas fimbriate. Fruit a small nut enclosed in 

 the usually enlarged inner perianth -segments, the angles acute. Seed 

 erect ; embryo lateral, nearly straight ; cotyledons linear or oblong. — 

 Distrib. All temperate and some tropical countries ; species about 140. 



1. Rumex dentatus, Linn. Muntiss. 2 (1771) p. 226. An erect 

 annual 1-2 ft. high ; stems usually red, grooved, glabrous. Leaves 3-4 

 by 1-14 i"-' oljloiigj obtuse, glabrous, the petioles of the radical leaves 

 reaching 2^ in. long, base rounded or cordate. Flowers pedicellate, in 

 distinct whorls which are leafy or not. Perianth l-\ in. long; inner 

 segments broadly ovate, much enlarged in fruit, reticulately veined, with 

 an ovoid-oblong sinooth tubercle at back and irregularly toothed or 

 pectinate margins, the teeth numerous, straight, not hooked. Nut -Jg 

 by yig. in., acutely trigonous (almost winged). PL B. I. v. 5, p. 59 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 366; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 888. — Flowers : Sept.-Nov. 



KoNKAN : Stocha. S. M. Country: South of Belgaum, Hitchie, 1142! Sind : 

 Stocks] — Distrib. India (Bengal, Assam, W. Peninsula). 



Rumex vesicarius, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 330. Annual, erect, 

 glabrous, 6-12 in. high, branched from the root. Leaves 1-3 in. long, 

 elliptic, ovate, or oblong, 3-5-nerved, base cuneate, cordate or hastate. 

 Flowers mono3cious ; inner perianth-segments membranous and reticu- 

 late in frnit, orbicular. Fl. B. 1. v. 5, p. 61; Grah. Cat. p. 172; 

 Duthie, Field & Garden Crops, part 3, p. 45 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 360 ; Prain, Beng. PI, p. 888 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. v. 6, part ], p. 592. — Vern. Chaka. 



Cultivated as a vegetiible and for its inedicinai properties, known sometimes as the 

 Bladder I)ock. It is said to be indigenous in the Western Panjab. Tiie leaves, seeds, 

 and roots are emplo}ed in native medicine. 



The following plants not belonging to any of the foregoing genera are 

 sometimes grown : — 



Faqopyrvm cxcnlcntioji, MaMicli. ]\lclhod. (1794) p. 290. An erect 

 glabrous annual with broadly ovate, cordate, acuminate leaves and pink 

 or \\hi1(' flowers in axillary and tcriiiinal cymes. Nut trigonous with 

 acule angles, light-lnciw n. polislicd. 'J'/ie Buckwheat, occasionally grown 



