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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Petals none. 



glandular-hairy at the top, bracts flat, smooth, calj^x 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. 



Polygonum 

 strigosum, 



Polygonum 

 sagittatum, 



Polygonum 

 alpinum, 



Polygonace.e. 

 F. B. I. V. 49. 



Hi mala va, 

 7-12,000 ft; 

 Kulu to Kashmir 

 (Thomson). 



Polygonum 

 pDlystachyum, 



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Polygonum 

 tortuosum, 



Polygonum 

 sibiricum, 



Polygoxace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 52. 

 Himalaya, 

 11-12,000 ft. 

 Kangra 

 (Edge worth). 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



see Prostrate Herbs, x\lternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



large, rootstock perennial, stem annual, grooved, 

 pale, smooth or j^oung parts softly velvety ; leaves 3-5 in., 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, smooth, 

 short-stalked, stipules long, tubular, loose, upper part 

 soon failing off, not bristly ; flowers ^^-\ 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, stjdes 3 ; nut \ 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, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



see Shrubs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 



very small, perennially rooted, stem stout, branche'^ 

 many, spreading or erect ; leaves 1-3 by jVi i^-' 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 3-angled, no tightly enclosed in the calyx, oblong- 

 ovate, black, shining, equal in length to the calyx. This 

 plant is eaten by the Tibetans. 



