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Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Polygonum affine, 
PoLYGONACEA. 
HS BALA. 33. 
Himalaya, 
8-14,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Polygonum 
rumicifolium, 
PoLYGONACE. 
BB. vol: 
Himalaya, 
10-14,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Polygonum minus, 
Elatostemma 
pusillum, 
URTICACES. 
Ht. Bailey, bbs. 
Himalaya, 
7-8,000 ft. 
Simla, on damp 
rocks in shade, often 
in moss (Collett). 
PETALS NONE. 
like the last species, but very much smaller, stems 
4-12 in., leaves sessile or very shortly stalked, 2-4 in. long, 
flowers pink. 
small to medium size, green, root perennial, stout, 
stems 6-18 in., stem thick, grooved; leaves 3-5 by 13-3 
in., broadly ovate, or ovate-heart-shaped, blunt or nearly 
short-pointed, wavy or even, stalk 4-1 in., stout, stipules 
large, loose, smooth ; flowers green, $-+ in. diam., in small 
axillary and terminal dense-flowered branching racemes, 
calyx lobes 5, orbicular, spreading, stamens 5-8, with 
alternate glands, styles 2-3, free, stigmas round; nut 3- 
angled, broadly ovate, about as long as the calyx lobes. 
The young parts are acid and eaten as rhubarb. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
annual, stem 1-6 in., slender, weak ; leaves } in., ovate, 
few, sessile, entire, sometimes with a small opposite leaf; 
flowers and other characters like Elatostemma sureulosum, 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Opposite, Stipulate Simple. 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, with ALYHRNATH StrPULATE LoBED Luavus. 
Thalictrum 
saniculeeforme, 
Monsonia 
hielotropioides, 
PETALS NONE. P 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Com- 
pound. 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Stipulate, Simpl, 
