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Food-Grains of India. 



Buckwheat. 

 Fagopyrum esculentum, Moench. 



Synonyms — F. vulgare (Endl.) ; F. sarracenicum (Dumort.) ; Polygonum fago- 

 pyrum (L.); P. dioicum (Hamilt.). 

 Punjab — Kala-Trumba, Chin, Kathu, Bras, Tsubri, Phapra. 



An upright annual herb of quick growth ; stem, hollow 

 and angular ; leaves, hastate or cordate triangular ; fruit, trigo- 

 nous, with keeled edges. 



Northern India, ascending to 11,500 feet in Kumaon. 



In the absence of any analysis of Indian -grown common 

 buckwheat, the figures that follow may be taken as representing 

 the ordinary composition of the husked seeds of this plant. 



Composition of Buckwheat (Husked), C. 



The nutrient-ratio is here i : 47, and the nutrient-value 86. 



No analyses have been published of the following species 

 of Fagopyrum grown in India : F. emarglnatum. Roth. (Nepal, 

 Kundwdr) ; F. cymosum, Meisn. (Nepdl, Mussori, Kashmir, 

 Kumdun) ; F. triangulare, Meisn. (Nepdl, Kumaun, Sirmiir, 

 Assam) ; and F. rotundatum, Bab. (Kunawar, Kumdun). 



Buckwheat is used by the poorer classes in some parts of 

 Upper India as food ; the seeds are ground into meal and 

 made into thin cakes. 



Fagopyrum tataricum, Gaertn. 



Synonyms— Y. dentatum (Moench.); Fagotriticum sibiricum (L.); Frumentum 



sarracenicum (Act. Nat. Cur.); Polygonum tataricum (L.). 

 North- West Provinces — Daran. 



The six species of buckwheat grown in India are so similar 

 that they are generally confounded together by the natives 



