(From fagus, the beech, which it resembles). Cayutana Luzonis, cubebis. Fagara plerota Lin. Sp. Pi. 172.

It is a plant found in the Philippine islands. The berries are aromatic, and, according to Avicenna, heating, drying, good for cold weak stomachs, and astringent to the bowels: the outer rind was not used. Jacquin refers to this genus a plant with the trivial name of octandra, used as a perfume.

Fagara octandra. See Tacamahaca. Fagopyrum, et Fagotriticum, (from the beech, and wheat, because its seed resembles the mast of beech). Frumentum Saracenicum, erysimum Theophrasti, tragopyron, brank, buck wheat. Polygonum fagopyrum Lin. Sp. Pi. 522.

Though originally from Africa, it thrives every where; delights in a wet soil; is sown in fields; flowers in July; is less nutritive than barley and rye, but more so than millet or panic. Raii Hist.