Rumex.] POLYGONACEZ. 43, 
swept up by the country people and eaten cooked. The fruit is 
densely setose. I have seen no specimens from the area included in 
this flora. . 
Facopyrum gEscutentom, Mench; Don Prod. 73, Royle Ill. 317; 
F. B. I. v, 55. Watt E. D.; DC. L’Orig. Pl. Cult. 279 ; Duthie 
Field and Gard. Crops N. W. Prov. and Oudh iii, 25, t. 83. Vern. 
Phdphra, kulti, ogla. (Buckwheat)—An erect glabrous annual 1-3 ft. 
high. Leaves triangular-cordate, acute. Flowers white or pink, in 
terminal subcapitate cymes. Nuts trigonous, acutely angled.—Much. 
cultivated for its grain in Dehra Dun and in the Sub-Himalayan tracts 
eastwards, as well as in the hilly districts of Central and 8. India ; 
also extensively on the Himalayan ranges and up to 12,000 ft. in W. 
Tibet. Another species, known as F. tataricum, and distinguished by 
having the angles of the nuts blunt, is a much taller and coarser 
plant, and is usually restricted. to the Himalaya and at rather 
higher elevations. It is much cultivated by the inhabitants of the 
higher villages. 
Anticonum Leptorus, Hook. and Arn. ; Gamble Man. 552; Prain 
Beng. Pl. 889 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 519. The Coral Creeper.—A large 
handsome climbing shrub with bright pink flowers. It is a native 
of S. America, and is largely grown in the gardens of N. India. 
MUEHLENBECKIA PLATYCLADOS, Meissn. (Cocoloba platyclada, F. Muell.). 
—A quaint-looking glabrous shrub with. flattened leaf-like branches 
(phylloclades) is often grown in the gardens of Upper India. It is s 
native of the Solomon Islands. 
XCIII._ARISTOLOCHIACE, 
Herbs or shrubs, often climbing, usually more or less foetid. 
Leaves alternate, entire or lobed ; stipules none. Flowers 2-sexual, 
often large, usually lurid, terminal axillary or lateral, solitary 
racemose or cymose, with or without bracts. Perianth simple, 
more or less adnate below to the ovary, regular or irregular, 3-lobed 
or tubular, lobes valvate. Stamens 6 or more, adnate in 1 or 2 
series to the top of the ovary or round the style; anthers erect; 
cells parallel, dehiscing dorsally. Ovary 4-6-celled ; placentas 
parietal, free or extending to the axis; style columnar, stigma 
lobed ; ovules many, anatropous. Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds 
many; albumen copious, fleshy, embryo minute.—Species about 
200, chiefly tropical. 
