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Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, Erect, wirh ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Polygonum 
sirigosum, 
Polygonum 
sagittatum, 
Polygonum 
alpinum, 
POLYGONACEA. 
iH Bow. Vv. 49. 
Himalaya, 
7-12,000 ft. 
Kulu to Kashmir 
(Thomson). 
Polygonum 
polystachyum, 
Polygonum 
tortuosum, 
Polygonum 
sibiricum, 
POLYGONACER. 
HP Bale w52, 
Himalaya, 
11-12,000 ft. 
Kangra 
(Edgeworth). 
Lear Mareins ENTIRE. 
PETALS NONE. 
glandular-hairy at the top, bracts flat, smooth, calyx 4-5-fid, 
stamens 6-8, style long with one or two arms, stigmas 
rounded ; nut enclosed in the calyx, 3-angled, or flattened 
circular, minutely dotted. The leaves in Kangra are used 
as an application to swellings. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate,* Stipulate, Sunple. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 
large, rootstock perennial, stem annual, grooved, 
pale, smooth or young parts softly velvety ; leaves 3-5 in., 
lanceolate or  linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, smooth, 
short-stalked, stipules long, tubular, loose, upper part 
soon falling off, not bristly; flowers ;4,-4 in. diam., 
white or pale pink, numerous in terminal crowded broad 
pyramidal branching racemes, 12 in. long or more, bracts 
short, blunt, flower stalks much longer than the bracts, 
jointed close to or further from the flower, calyx 5-seg- 
mented, segments nearly divided to the base, inner seg- 
ments broad tipped, stamens 8, rarely less, alternating with 
glands when present, styles 3 ; nut 4 in. long, shining, pale, 
Sharply 3-angled, longer than the calyx. Aitchison states 
that it is eaten raw or cooked, and tastes like rhubarb. 
see Shrubs, Hrect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
very small, perennially rooted, stem stout, branches 
many, spreading or erect ; leaves 1-3 by ;,-} in., narrowly 
linear, blunt-pointed, 2 processes sticking out at the 
base, leaf stalk thick, stipules tubular, short, thin and 
papery ; flowers =!; in. long, pink, in heads }-} in. diam., 
forming terminal branched racemes, shorter than the 
leaves, bracts minute, flower stalks short or long, calyx in 
5 segments, segments broadly oblong, stamens 5-8, 
Short, with or without alternating glands, styles 2-3; 
nut 8-angled, no’ tightly enclosed in the calyx, oblong- 
ovate, black, shining, equal in length to the calyx. This 
plant is eaten by the Tibetans. 
