Plants of the Punjab. 



231 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Fagopyrum 

 esculentum, 

 Buckwheat, 



Phaphra, kultu, 

 kathu. 



POLYGONACE.E, 



F. B. L V. 55. 

 Himalava, 

 5-12,000 ft. 



Fagopyrum 

 cymosum, 



POLYGOXACE.E. 



F. B. I. V. 55. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-11.000 ft. 

 Simla in woods. 

 (Collett). 



Fagopyrum 

 tataricum, 



Ugal, kaspat. 

 Polygonace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 55. 

 Himalaj^a, 

 3-12,000 ft. 



Petals none. 



medium size, amiual, smooth, branched or not, cul- 

 tivated and fomid as 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, ^-f in .diaj^., 

 calyx of 5 segments, segments nearly equal, stamens 8, 

 alternating with yellow sessile glands, styles 3 ; nut J-|m.., 

 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, iiower 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. 



Rumex nepalensis, 

 Dock, 



P0LYGONACE.E. 

 F. B. I. V. 60. 

 Himalava, 

 4-9,000 ft. 

 12,000 ft. on the 

 Chenab (Stewart). 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Murree (Douie). 



large, perennial, sometimes, stout, biunched ; radical 

 leaves G-14 by 3-5 in., oblong, ovate-oblong or tri^ngula,r- 

 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, 

 green, often turning red, 2-sexual, in circular clusters 

 at intervals along neaily leafless racemes, calyx of circular 

 sepals, 3 outer not enlarging, 3 inner enlarging in fruit, 

 with a tubercle in the centre and fringed with hooked 

 teeth, stamens 6, styles 3, stigmas fringed, terminal ; nut 

 brown, sharply 3-angled, enclosed in the 3 enlarged 

 hook-fringed aiid net-veined sepals. The roots are said to 

 be used as a substitute for rhubarb. 



Rumex hastatus, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



