Plants of ihe Punjab. 231 
Cease 
Hurss, Eruor, with ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Fagopyrum 
esculentum, 
Buckwheat, 
Phaphra, kultu, 
kathu. 
PoLYGONACEA, 
Pebols ve oe 
Himalaya, 
5-12,000 ft. 
Fagopyrum 
cymosum, 
POLYGONACES. 
Habe vlobs 
Himalaya, 
5-11,000 ft. 
Simla in woods. 
(Collett). 
Fagopyrum 
tataricum, 
Ugal, kaspat. 
POLYGONACEA. 
Me. ey ob: 
Himalaya, 
3-12,000 ft. 
Rumex nepalensis, 
Dock, 
POLYGONACE. 
Be v.60: 
Himalaya, 
4-9,000 ft. 
12,000 ft. on the 
Chenab (Stewart). 
Simla (Collett). 
Murree (Douie). 
Rumex hastatus, 
Lear Marains ENTIRE. 
PETALS NONE. 
medium size, annual, smooth, branched or not, cul- 
tivated and found ag an escape; leaves 1-4 in. diam., 
triangular, heart-shaped at the base, short-pointed, stipules 
tubular ; flowers small, white or pink, in axillary or terminal 
heads forming stalked many-flowered clusters, 3-3 in .diam., 
calyx of 5 segments, segments nearly equal, stamens 8, 
alternating with yellow sessile glands, styles 3 ; nut $-}1in., 
ovate with 3 sharp angles, much longer than the calyx. 
The grain is not very nutritious. 
medium size, root perennial, branched slightly vel- 
vety, leaves 2-4 in. diam., broadly triangular, sharp- 
pointed, long-stalked, upper leaves narrower and stem- 
clasping, flowers white, in racemes, 2-5 in. long, forming 
long-stalked branching racemes, flower stalks jointed in 
the middle ; otherwise like the last species. 
very like Fagopyrum esculentum above and also cul- 
tivated, but taller, and the faces of the nut deeply grooved 
with rounded angles. ‘The grain is considered inferior to 
that of F. esculentum. 
large, perennial, sometimes, stout, branched ; radical 
leaves 6-14 by 3-5 in., oblong, ovate-oblong or triangular- 
ovate, short-pointed or blunt, base broadly or narrowly 
heart-shaped and stalked, upper leaves not stalked 
and smaller, uppermost sessile and lanceolate, stipules 
tubular, not fringed, soon disappearing ; flowers small, 
creen, often turning red, 2-sexual, in circular clusters 
at intervals along neatly leafless racemes, calyx of circular 
sepals, 3 outer not enlarging, 3 inner enlarging in fruit, 
with a tubercle inthe centre and fringed with hooked 
teeth, stamens 6, styles 3, stigmas fringed, terminal ; nut 
brown, sharply 3-angled, enclosed in the 8 enlarged 
hook-fringed and net-veined sepals. The roots are said to 
be used as a substitute for rhubarb. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed, 
