Potygala.] xv. polygalejE (oliver). 131 



t~2 in. Raceme terminal, shorter than or equalling the upper leaves, rather 

 dense and conical above. Flowers very shortly pedicellate ; pedicels £ line 

 or less ; bracts early deciduous. Outer sepals free. Wing-sepals obovate, 

 faintly nerved, nerves diverging from the base ; deciduous. Lateral petals 

 oblong, obtuse, equalling the keel. Capsule obovate-rotundate, refuse, gla- 

 brous. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra del Crystal, Mann ! 



12. P. irregularis, Boiss. Diag. i. Fasc. i. 8. A low, spreading, wiry 

 plant, branching from a woody stock ; branches puberulous, with minute, 

 oppressed hairs. Leaves, especially the lower, oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse or refuse, often with a minute, recurved mucro ; upper very small, 

 narrower, strigillose-puberulous or glabrescent, more or less glaucous in our 

 specimens, not exceeding -£ in. in length. Flowers remote, in loose, terminal, 

 spreading racemes ; pedicels equalling the outer, free, broadly-elliptical 

 sepals ; bracts early deciduous. Wing-sepals broadly-ovate, with 3 nerves 

 "nited above and minute, spreading, lateral veinlets. Lateral petals ample, 

 extremely delicate, broadly obovate-cuneate. Capsule obliquely-obovate, 

 Ringed, glabrous. 



Wile Land. Sennar, Kotschy ! 



Also in Arabia, I think, as P. arabica, Boiss., seems scarcely different. 



13. P. paludosa, St.Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. ii. 8, var. A very slender, 

 ""form, erect, glabrous annual, of 4-12 in., with forking, ascending branches 

 a »d scattered, acicular or filiform leaves, of \ in. or less. Flowers in erect, 

 terminal racemes, very small ; pedicels about equal to the outer free sepals, 

 spreading' ; bracts subulate, early deciduous Wing-sepals persistent, ellip- 

 gj, obtuse, with 3 faint nerves, the lateral ones soon lost. Lateral petals 

 anceolate, nearly equal to the keel. Capsule elliptical, a little narrowed at 

 the base, rather obtuse, equal to the wings. Seeds estrophiolate, pilose, with 

 pressed hairs.— P. paniculate, Linn., var. africana ? DC Prod. i. 329. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone ! 

 A 'so in Brazil. 



. l4 - P. capillaris, E. Mey. (Harv. in Fl. Capensis, i. 93), var. angolen- 



g A very slender, erect, glabrous annual, of 1 ft. or more, usually branched 



*°m the base. Leaves scattered, very small, erect, lanceolate or linear, about 



j *• long. Flowers small, cream-coloured or greenish, in erect, rather 



J en se, terminal, spicate racemes. Bracts subulate, very early deciduous ; 



gjcela equalling or shorter than the outer free sepals. Wing- sepals ellip- 



c al-rotundate, with the lateral faint nervures dying out. Lateral petals 



^-lanceolate, nearly equalling the keel. Capsule ovate-orbicular, minutely 



P'culate or scarcely emarginate when dry, two or three times shorter than 



* wings. Seeds with short, curved hairs ; strophiole obsolete. 



°»er Guinea. Angola, prov. Huilla, Dr. Welwltsch! 



curs al so south of the, tropic. 



l5 - P. micrantha, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 39. An erect, branching 



I Slm ple, glabrous annual, of 2-6 in. Leaves scattered, rather fleshy, 



' lear . acute, about $-\ in. long. Flowers minute, in terminal, leafless ra- 



mes i often crowded towards the apex; pedicels filiform, not exceeding the 



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