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ORDER 114. BEGONIACE. Sweet’s Hort. Brit. p. 841. 
601, BEGONIA. x. Monoecia Polyandria. ; 
Named in honor of M. Begon, a Frenchman and Patron of Botany. Lam, 
t. 778, Gaert. 1. ¢. 31. 
1259. B. Mavasarica, Rox. Flora. 3. p. 648. Tsjiria narenampuli. Rheed. 
Mal. 9: t. 86. Dryander in Linn. Trans. 1. p !71. 
Herbaceous, succulent plant; leaves alternate, semicordate, unequally ser- 
rated, covered with a few stiff hairs. Peduncles axillary, many flowered; 
flowers of a pale pink colour; fragrant. S. Concan. N. 
1260. 1. Crenata? Sprengel’s syst. 2. p. 625, 
Mootea.—A small herbaceous plant, with sub-rotund, semicordate, crenate 
leaves, and white fowers.,On Kaudalla Ghaut towards the close of the rains, 
sprincing from the clefts of rocks.—It is also parasitic ou trees. Salsette. N. 
The Empetrum acetosum. Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 169. f. 2. bears a consider- 
able resemblance; tho’ without a tuberous root, often cited for B. tuberosa. 
-: ORDER 115. POLYGONEAL. Sweet’s Hort. Brit. p. 341. 
Tae Buck-Wueat Trise, Lind. Naé. syst. p. 169. 
602, POLYGONUM.1.. Octandria Trigynia. - 
From polys, many—gonu—a knee; in allusion to the jointed stems. 
Lamm. ¢. 313. Gaert. 2. ¢. 119. 
1261. P. Grasrum. Rox. Flora, Ind. 2. p: 287. Rheed. Mal. 10. ¢. 80, 
and 12. ¢. 77. Bot. Mag. ¢. 213. Aiaslie Mat. Ind. 2° p. 1. P. glabrum and P, 
orientale. Wilid. 
Fukt revra.— Annual, with smooth, reddish stems, and long racemes of ra- 
ther pretty rose-coloured flowers.—Grows common by the margins of tauka 
throughout the Concans. The vale of the Yena, Mahableshwur. ~ 
The plant is used medicinally hy the Ghaut people. (Dr. Gibson.) 
1262. P. RivuLare.. Rox, Flora. Ind. 2. p, 290. Rheed’ Mal. 12. ¢. 76. 
Annual, with narrow lanceolate leaves, and numerous rose-coloured flowers 
in terminal racemes.—Grows in the same situatious as tire iast. 
1263. PB. Carinense. Rox. Flora. Ind. 2. p. 289. Burm. ind. ¢. 30. f. 3. 
Purrul.—A scandent, suifruticose plant; leaves alternate, oblong, trun- 
cate at the base; Mowers small, white:—appear in February and March:—com-> 
mon at Mahabieshwur, and on the hills about Parr. 
603. RUMEX. L. Hexandria Trigynia. 
A name applied by Pliny to the sorrel plant. Gaert. 2. ¢. 119, Lam. ¢. 271, 
1264. KR. Vesicaria. Rox. Flora, Ind. 2. p. 209. Moris. Hist. s. 5. ¢. 28, 
SF. 7. Wilid. Spec. 2. p. 256. ai 
Aimbaree Chucha—Country Sorrel.—Cultivated for culinary and medivinal 
purposes. N. ; 
604. RHEUM, 1. Enneandria Trigynia. eae 
From Mia. the ancient name of the Wolga; oa the hanks of which river 
rhubarb grows. Lam. ¢.324, Gaert. 2. ¢. 119. Tourn. ¢. 13. 
1265. R. Ruaponticum. Sprengel’s syst. 2. p. 272. Sabb. Hort. 1. t. 34, 
Common Rhubarb;—in Dr. Elliot's garden at Dhoolea. Cevipal Asia is 
supposed to be the native country of this well knowa, and useful piant, both 
in medicine and domestic economy. : , 
Dr. Lindley observes, that the leaves and young shoots of this tribe are 
acid and agreeable, and the roots universally nauseous. ( Nat. syst. of ot. ps 
170.) Stranze that such opposite qualities should exist in diifereat paris of 
. the same plant, 
