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Herbs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 

 Leaf Margins Entire. 



Runtex nepalensis, 

 Dock, 



POLYGONAGE^E. 



F. B. I. V. 60. 



Himalaya 4-9,000 ft. 

 (12,000 ft. on the 

 Ohenab, Stewart). 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Murree (Douie). 



Rumex hastatus, 



Rumex acetosa, 



Rumex vesicarius, 

 Bladder Dock, Sorret, 



Katta mitha, saltmi, 

 cJmka. 



POLYGONACE-^. 



F. B. L V. 61. 

 The Salt Range 



Trans-Indus Hills. 

 Baluchistan (Hughes- 



Buller). 



Phyllanthus urinaria, 



Huzur-Qnani, 

 Euphoreiacb^. 

 F. B. I. V. 293. 

 The Plains, 



Petals None. 



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, green, often 

 turning red, 2-sexual, in circular clusters at in- 

 tervals along, nearly leafless I'acemes calyx of 6 

 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 three enlarged hook- 

 fringed and net-veined sepals. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed. 



small, annual, pale green, smooth, branches in 

 pairs ; leaves 1-3 in., ovate or oblong, base wedge 

 shaped, rarely heart-shaped or terminating in two 

 sharp angles, stipules tubular, not fringed, soon 

 disappearing ; flowers small, pink or white, male 

 and female separate, in terminal short leaf opposed 

 leafless racemes, 1-1^ in. long, flowers on jointed or 

 unjointed stalks, calyx of 6 circular sepals, inner 3^ 

 much enlarged in fruit, thin, 2-lobed at each end, 

 not fringed, stamens 6, styles 3, fringed, arising 

 from the angles of the fruit, bent down ; nut ^ in. 

 diam., 3-angled. 



medium-size to large, annual, rarely perennial, 

 smooth, stem and branches angled, angles of 

 branches, margins of leaves and sepals often 

 minutely hairy; leaves ^-§ in., in two lines, over- 

 lapping, oblong or linear oblong, tip rounded or 

 short-pointed, sessile, stipules target-shaped;, 



