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POLYGALA oppositifolia ; var. major. 



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Large opposite-leaved Polygala, 



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DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. 





Nat, ord, Polygale^, 



POLYGALA TonTn,—Calycis sepala persistentia, 2 interiora alseformia, 

 Petala 3-5, tubo stamineo connexa, inferiore carinseformi (forsan ^ duobus 

 coalitis constante). Capsula compressa, elliptica, obovata, v. obcordata. 

 Stamina pubescentia, hilo carunculato, coma destituta. Decprodr, 1. 321, 



§ Psychanthus, Carina ampla cristata, Capsula glabra mar- 



ginata. Bractecs ires scepiils persistentes ad basin pedicellorum. 



Frutices Capenses (unicus Arabicus). Dec. 

 P. oppositifolia; foliis oppositis cordatis acutis, ramis glabris. 

 (*. P. oppositifolia, Linn, Mant. 259. Willd, sp. pL 3. S^5, Tkunb, prodr, 

 120. Desf. in ann, mus. 1. 130. Hort, Kew, ed, 2. 4, 244. Suprd, 

 foL 636, Dec, prodr, 1. 321, Spreng, si/st, 3. 163, 

 /3. major, foliis distantibus magis cordatis, acuminatis, racemis multifloris, 

 floribus majoribus. 



Omninh intermedia inter P, oppositifoliam et cordifoliam^ illi glabrifate 

 foliorum ramorumque affiniot, kuic foliorum formd Jlorumque magnitudine 

 similis, prcBsertim varietati nomine P, latifoluB, ad foL 645 Jiujus operis 

 depictce. 



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For this handsome variety of P. oppositifolia we are 

 indebted to the favour of Alexander Baring, Esq., from 

 whose Conservatory at the Grange it was sent by Mr. 

 Peter M*Arthur, his Gardener, in February 1826. It 

 is a beautiful greenhouse plant, easily increased, and blos- 

 soming in abundance in the early months of the year, 

 a season when few flowers are to be procured. 



It is sometimes called in Gardens by the name of 

 P. cordifolia, a diiferent plant, distinguished by the downi- 

 ness of its leaves and branches. The present is altogether 

 intermediate between that species and P. oppositifolia, — 

 differing, indeed, in little, except its smoothness, from 

 P. latifolia of fol. 645 of this work, which is a mere variety 



