17. POLTOaLEX. 59 



17. polygale*:. 



1. Salomonia aphylla. Griff, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 342 ; 

 Ilook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 207; Hance in Journ. Bof. 1885, 

 p. 321. 



Salomonia parasitica. Griff. Sotul. ir. p. 53N. 



Epirhiranthea tcnrlla. Ilook.f. in Trans. Linn. Sor. xx'iu. p. 15fl. 



Kpirhizanthea, Hlume, Cat. Grvnx*. Hui'rni. p. 25. 



KwA.MHiNO: L fa u -hail (Ford I). Herb. Kew. 



Malacca ; Java ; Borneo. 



2. Salomonia cantoniensii, Lour. Fl. Cochineh. p. 14; DC. 

 Prodr. i. p. 834; Itmth. Fl. Hongk. p. 4. ; Hook./. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. i. p. 206 ; Seem. Bot. Toy. * Herald,' p. 364. 



KwajroTtnro: Whampoa(//<rwce!), Lofaushan {Ford'); Hojso- 

 KOXO {Champion'. Wright \ Sermon n !). Mus, Brit.; Herb. 

 Kew. 



Assam, through the Malayan peninsula and archipelago. 



3. Salomonia oblongifolia, Z>C. Pro</r. i. p. 334 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Hongk. p. 44 ; Ilook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 207. 



Hoxoko*o (Hance'.). Herb. Kew. 



Widely spreal in India and through the Malayan archipelago 

 to Australia. 



1. Polygala arillata, Ham. in Don, Prod. Fl. Sep. p 199; 

 Wall. PL At. Bar. 1. 100 ; Berth. Fl. Hongk. p. 45 ; Ilook.f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. i. p. 200. 



Hoxokoso (Champion ! Wright ! Wiiford'.). Herb. Kew. 



The Himalaya and Khasia mountains, to Ceylon and the Malay 

 archipelago. 



All the Hongkong specimens referred to this species arc 

 remarkable for having solitary, long, terminal racemes of flowers, 

 and possibly represent a different species. 



[Polygala chinenHt, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 704, is only recorded 

 as an Indian plant by the author ; and in the ' Flora of British 

 India' its range in described as " Tropical Asia and Australia." 

 Whether it grows in China is uncertain ; and the Chinese species 

 generally require revision.] 



2. Polygala fallax, Hemsl., n. sp. 



Frutex r rami* teretibua puberuli*. Folio petiolata. membra- 

 nacea, sparse puberula, elliptico-laoccolata, 5-7 poll. Innga, usque 



