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surface glabrous or thinly hairy, the lower softly and densely 
hairy, especially in the mid-rib and nerves. Stipules tubular, 
very long, hairy, strongly nerved, pointed. Flowers white or ting- 
ed with pink, in terminal, usually erect, panicles, 6-18in. long. 
Bracts flat. Perianth 5-parted, .pin', diam. Stamens 8. Styles 
3, free nearly to the base. Nut 3-angled, pale-brown. 
Use : — It is used for the same purposes as P. Hydropiper 
and P. ulatum. ft is astri ngent. 
10G4-. Rheum spiciforme, Royle, h.f.b.i., v. 55. 
Habitat : — Western Himalaya ; in the drier ranges, from 
Kumaon westwards to Western Tibet. 
A stemless herb. Boot short or long, thicker than the thumb. 
Leaves all radical, 6-1 2in. diam., very leathery, with prominent 
radiating nerves and reticulated nervules beneath, red-brown 
in age, orbicular, broadly ovate or cordate, glabrous or stellate- 
ly puberulous beneath. Petiole 3-Cin., very stout, glabrous or 
puberulous. Racemes 1-3, glabrous, radical, 4-12in., strict, 
dense-fid. Peduncle and rachis stout, glabrous. Bracts minute, 
ovate, scarious. Flowers T oin. diam., on capillary pedicels. 
Fruit broadly ellipsoid or oblong, wings membranous, broader 
than the disk, j pm. long, 3-4-times as long as the oblong 
obtuse sepals; tip rounded or notched, wings membranous. 
Pedicel half as long as the fruit or less. 
1065. R. Mooreroftianum, Royle, h.f.b.i., v. 56. 
Habitat:-- Western Himalaya; Kumaon. 
Stemless species of stout herbs, with woody large roots. 
Flowers in a spike like raceme. “ This plant, ” says J.D. Hooker, 
“ differs from R. spiciforme in the very much larger pubescent 
peduncles and racemes which together are two feet long, and in 
the form of the fruit.” Leaves all radical, thickly coriaceous, 
orbicular, glabrous or stellately puberulous beneath Racemes 
pubescent, fruit ovoid, wings narrow. 
1066. R. emodi, Wall., h.f.b.i., v. 56. 
Vern. : — Revand-chini (H. and B.) ; Revande-hindi (Pers.); 
