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POLYGALA latifolia. 
Broad-leaved Cape- Milkwort. 
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DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PEDICULAREs, Jussieu gen, 99. Div. J. Stamina non di- 
dynama, 2 aut plura. 
RHINANTHACE®.  Decand. thtor. ed. 2. 247. 
POLYGALEÆ. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 542; et 
suprà fol. 636. 
POLYGALA.  Suprà vol. 2. fol. 150. 
Div. Cristate. 
P. latifolia fruticosa, ramis pubescentibus, foliis decussatis, subcoriaceis, 
glauciusculis, nervosis, rhombeo-ovatis, oblatis, suprà nudis, infra villo- 
ra racemis umbellatis; antheris barbá longa rará divaricatà ad 
asin. 
Fruticulus erectus ( sesquipedalis?); ramis erectis, teretibus, villoso-ca- 
nescentibus, foliosis, ( brevibus? ). Fol. decussato-opposita, cinereo-virentia, 
crassiuscula, oblata, rhomboidali-ovata, intervallis longiora, nervosa, mu- 
cronata, ciliata, subtüs villis raris adspersa, $ uncie longa vel magis, basi 
obsoletè cordata : petiolus hirsutior, brevissimus. Racemi terminales, pluri- 
flori, erecti, umbellato-contracti, axi pedicellis plurimim breviore bracteis 
obtectá : pedicelli stricti, glauci, pallidi, nudiusculi, flore duplo breviores, 
basi bracteolis 3 verticillatis ovato-oblongis cincti. Flores dilutiès purpu- 
rascentes $ uncie longi v. circitór. Cal. fere congenerum affinium. Vexil- 
lum dipetalum chloroleucum, suprà venis purpureis pictum, segmento incum- 
bente calycis X longius, petala collateralia à margine interiore villoso mutud 
imbricantia, biloba fissa, lobis sind lato obtuso interceptis, interiore reflexo 
obtuso, exteriore assurgente duplo longiore lineari-subulato acumine saturate 
purpureo. Ale clandestine nulle. Carina cymbata, compressa, latissima, 
in fern virens, supernè atropurpurascens acumine brevi: penicillus carneo- 
albicans, amplus, decompositus, inferne virens. Fil. alba: antherze Have, 
basi barbä rarä patentissima donate. Pist. Jere ligularis, oppositifoliæ, et 
myrtifoliæ, at glochis stigmatosa earum plurimüm latior. 
A curious unpublished species, lately introduced from 
the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea 
Nursery, in the King’s Road, where the drawing was taken 
in May last. 
Cultivated in the greenhouse. It forms a small upright 
shrub, and flowers freely in the latter part of the spring. 
A foot and a half high? branches upright, round, vil- 
lous, grey, leafy, short. Leaves decussated, slightly glau- 
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