60 17. poltgale^;. 



ad 1| poll, lata, utrfnque attenuata, acuta, integra. Flores 6-9 

 lineas longi,in racemos axillares erectos 3-4 poll.longos dispositi, 

 pedicellis puberulis patentibus circiter 3 lineas longis, bracteis 

 deciduis lineari-oblongis pedicellos sequantibus ; sepala 3 exteriora 

 colorata, decidua, ciliolata, iusequalia, posticum inverso-galeatum 

 vel galeiformi-saccatum, acutum, antica oblique ovato-rotundata ; 

 sepala 2 interiora leviter oblique obovata, petala sequantia; petala 

 lateralia (postica) oblonga cum carina alte connata, apice fere 

 truncata, basi in sepalum galeatum unilateraliter producta, simul 

 brevitcr semicalcarata vel sernisaccata, intus basi hirsutula ; carina 

 galeata dorso cum crista stipitata ampla fimbriata ornata ; ovarium 

 valde compressum, ciliatum. Capsula deest. 



Fokien : Amoy interior (Swinhoel). Herb. Kew. 



In foliage and inflorescence this so closely resembles Polygala 

 venenosa, Juss., as to be easily mistaken for it, in a dried state at 

 least. In floral structure, bowever, it is nearer P. arillata, Ham., 

 differing mainly in its stipitate multitid crest. How far the modi- 

 fications of the crest may be used for specific characters we cannot 

 judge from the few we have examined ; but in P. venenosa it is 

 sinuate and scarcely divided, and in an apparently undescribed 

 species from Bhotan in the Kew Herbarium it is multilamellate. 



3. Polygala glomerata, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 426 ; DC. Prodr. 

 i. p. 326 ; Benth. Fl. Hongh. p. 44 ; A. W. Benn. in HooJc.f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. i. p. 206. 



KwxNOTrxo : Lofaushan {Ford !) ; Hongkong {Lamont ! 

 Wright \ Champion I Wilfordl). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 

 Eastern Himalaya southward through the Malay peninsula. 



4. Polygala hongkongensis,iTeOTs?.,n.sp. (PlateII.A.figg.1-6.) 

 Stiffrutex 6-18 poll, altus, fere omnino glaber vel glabrescens, 



ramis teretibus graeillimis. Folia sparsa, brevissime petiolata, 

 crassiuscula,venisimmersis obsoletis, lanceolata vel ovato-lanceo- 

 lata, usque ad 2 poll, longa, vix acuta, integerrima, margine leviter 

 incrassato, subtus pallidiora. Flores circiter 4 lineas longi in 

 racemos terminales folia paullo superantes dispositi; bractese 

 parvae, ante anthesin decidua?; sepala 3 exteriora persistentia, 

 anguste arcuato-navicularia, ciliolata, dorso paullo infra apicem 

 brevitcr cornutn ; sepaln 2 interiora petaloidea leviter oblique 

 obovato-oblonga, petalis lateralibus longiora ; petala 2 lateralia 

 (posteriora) sinuata, apice rotundata, medio attenuata, intus 

 deorsum hirsutula ; carina sublibera, anguste unguiculata, cucul- 



