the common Buckwheat. It is a native of Siberia, and, if 
Tournefort’s plant is really the same, of the Levant. Intro- 
duced by Monsieur Richard in 1770; but is not often met 
with in our collections, where it requires to be cultivated in 
the same soil and situation as RuopopENprons and Aza~ 
LEAS. Some have asserted that this and ArrapHaxis spinosa 
are the same plant, and that one becomes the other; but 
it should appear by the two being still every where recorded 
separately, that this is an assertion which at least requires 
confirmation. 
- From a foot to a yard and half high, stem branching 
from the bottom upwards, branches numerous, virgate or 
rodlike, smooth, pale, round. Leaves spatulately lanceo- 
late, frosted, tapered towards the petiole, pointed, faintly 
veined, about an inch long, several times longer than 
broad, repand at the edge or faintly indented: petioles 
short: ochrea or stipular sheath subulately two-pointed. 
Flowers pale rose-coloured, axillary by threes, the threes 
disposed in a long wideset leafy raceme: bractes several, 
chaffy, placed at the bases of the pedicles: pedicles smooth, 
red, slender, 2 or 3 times shorter than the leaves or more, 
scarcely longer than the corolla, while bearing the flower 
upright, dependent when they bear the fruit. Corolla up- 
right, 5-parted, shortly turbinate at the base: segments 
crimson at the disk and veins, whitish at the circumference; 
two outer ones twice the smallest or more, deflectent, ovately 
orbicular, deeply concave, green in the disk of the back ; 
three inner ones nearly round, undulated at the edge, per- 
sistent, finally closing together so as to form a kind of 3- 
cornered capsule for the keep of the seed. Filaments 8, 
inserted in the disk of the corolla, somewhat unequal, firm,,. 
lanceolately subulate, smooth, fleshy and deep crimson at 
the base, the longer ones but little shorter than the corolla: 
anthers small, yellow, roundly didymous, first incumbent, 
afterwards upright, facing inwards. Germen red, oval, 
prismatic, shining, shorter than the filaments: style scarcely 
any, crimson: stigmas 3 thick roundish pale rose-coloured 
frosted lobes, inclining one way. Seed naked, chestnut- 
coloured, of the same shape as the germen, shining, sharp- 
pointed, with a subcrustaceous leathery coat. 
_ The drawing was taken in August last at the nursery of 
Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham. 
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