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POLYGALA speciosa. 
. Large-flowered Cape Milkwort, 
DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PenicuLares. Jussieu gen. 99. 
Div. I. Stamina non didynama, 2 aut plura. 
, POLYGALA. Cal. 5-partitus, laciniis 2 longè majoribus ale 
formibus sap? coloratis. Cor. convoluta in tubum supra fissum, limbo. 
2-labiatum, labio superiore bipartito fisso, inferiore concavo subtîs bars 
bato aut imberbi, intus obtegente stamina in duas fasces collecta; anth. 
1-loc. Stig. subbifidum. Caps. ( Legumen biloculare) compressa, ob- 
cordata. Herbe aut frutices; Jolia plerdmque alterna; flores 1-3-brace 
teolati, alterni, larè aut dense spicati, terminales. Jussieu gen. 99. 
P. speciosa, crìstata, fruticosa, appendice duplici, racemis ebracteatis 
. Subterminalibus multifloris, foliis alternis oblongo-cuneatis glabris, 
Curt. mag. 1780. ‘ 
Polygala speciosa. Herb. Banks. . 
Frutex suborgyalis, Junceo-virgata, ramis novellis tumidiusculis, Folia 
sparsa, laxa, lineari-oMonga, angusta, subcuneata, sessilia, deorsum attenuata, 
Hacemi terminales, lar? spicati, erecti, multiffori, rachide interrupt? angulosá, 
pedicellis 1-Aoris, 3-plo brevioribus flore, lanuginosis, Hexilibus, decurois, 
basi cinctis bracteolis 2-3 deciduis. “Flores 3 partes uncia: longi, penduli, 
violaceo-purpurascentes. Cal. segmentis tribus duris livido-virentibus obtusissi- 
mis, 3-plo brevioribus lateralibus 2 am; lis alzformibus coloratis falcato« 
rotundis. Cor. subtripetala, bilabiata; labium supremum verillum bipetali« 
num tubuloso-convolutum, parüm longiâs segmento supremo cis, incumbens 
Parte imá interiore caring; infimum carina monopetala follicularis, alig 
calycinis sublongior, falcata, compressa, assurgens Hexurá ventricosd, acumie 
natá, fissurá interná ventrali labris villosis arè conniventibus, subtis infra 
apicem educens cristam amplam bipartitam decompositam multifidam concolorem 
porrectam, Stam. in; tubuloso-monadelpha fissurá verticali ciliatá, ind 
distincta: anth. erecte, Jilamentorum. subi vato-continue, 1doculares, sube 
urnato-cylindrice, apice dehiscentes ore obliqua revolutim marginato hing 
lanceoluto-appendiculato : pollen subfluido-grumosum, | aureum, splendens, 
Germ. parvulum, compressum, obcordatum gi brum, biloc., loculis Tespermis 
stylus subfusiformis, rigidus, robustus, de medio arrecto-inflexus, E deque 
roseo-rubescens, infra attenuatus, è puncto gracili insertus germini, latere 
interiori barbatus + stigma amatum, anticê pubescens et rima longitudin 
incisum, : 
The finest species known of the genus; recently in- 
troduced into cur gardens, and not incorporated, in any 
Systematic arrangement of vegetables. Native of M: e ape 
of Good. Hope, where specimens have been collec - y 
late Mr. Masson, and deposited in Sir Joseph Banks's Her» 
barium by the name we have adopted, . ; 
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