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POLYGALA ligularis. 
Strap-leaved Milk-wort. 
DI ADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PEDICULARES. (RHINANTHACEE. ez Decand. théor. ed. 2. 
247.) Jussieu gen. 99. Div. I. Stamina non didynama duo aut plura. 
Porroner. Brown in gen. rem. flind. voy. 2. 542; et 
supra fol. 636. 
POLYGALA. Supra. vol. 2. fol. 150. 
Div. Cristate. s 
P. ligularis, ramis erectis dichotomis approximat? foliosis villosis, foliis 
sparsis lingulato-linearibus glabris; racemis umbellatis, pedicellis in axi 
brevissima. villosa altemis: lobo exteriore petalorum vexilli brevissimo, 
latere acuminis interiore introrsum obliquato. 
Fruticulus erectus, subsesguipedalis, ramis foliosis erectis villosis à 
teretibus. foliorum decursú interruptó angulosis. Folia wwmerosa, sparsa, 
patentia, ligulata acumine brevi obtusiusculo, glabra, uninervia, X uncie fert 
longa latitudine subsesquilineari, internodiis pluriès longiora. mi ter- 
minales, umbellato-contracti, erecti, alternatim. pluri-(6?-)-ffori; pedicelli 
ari brevissima alterne circumpositi, filiformes, villosi, erecti, flore foliisque 
obvallantibus breviores, singuli bracteolis 3 ovatis obtusis villosis erectis ver- 
ticillatis ad basin cincti, Flores speciosi, leté purpurei, nutantés, transverse 
unciales vel ultrà, semunciam v. ulirà longi. Cal. glaber, foliolis 3 minoribus 
ovatis concavis virentibus, 1 summo vexillo incumbente, 2 carine suppositis; 
2 majoribus lateralibus coloratis, venosis, inequilateri-cordatis, obtusis, 
patentissimis, adscendentibus. Cor. vexillum dipetalum, parvum caring 
aliguotiós brevius, petala subovata, imbricato-approximata, albicantia cum 
venis purpureis, margine interiore villosa, apice bilobo-fina, lobo interiore 
obtuso reflexo, exteriore curto obliquè truncato cum angulo exteriore brevis- 
simo: ale 2 clandestine segmentis. calycinis lateralibus alternantes, ovate, 
albe, breves tubi filamentosi basi utrinque inserta, calyce profundiüs incluse : 
carina monopetala folliculari-falcata, infernè albicans, supra atro-purpurea, 
penicillo albido bipartito-multifida finem carine subsuperante cristata. Fil. 
preter Sapien flaccidam antheriferam purpurea: pollen grumoso-granulo- 
sum. Stylus glaber, albidus, subfusiformi-elongatus, vobustior, assurgens, 
stamina subsuperans, inthis sulco longitudinali exaratus: stigma stylum glo- 
chidato-terminans, glochide viridi, brevi, antic? rimá glabrá longitudinali 
incisá, apice cernuo glanduloso pruinoso albido secernente: germ. viride, disco 
Aypogyno cavo insertum, obcordato-oblongum, compressum, venosum, glabrum, 
stylo pluriès brevius, 2-loc. loculis parallelis monospermis. A 
Lately introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea 
Nursery, in the King's Road, from the Cape of Good Hope. 
Samples, collected by Mr. Masson in South Africa, bave 
been deposited in the Banksian Herbarium as varieties 
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