Polygala.] xv. polygalea: (oliver). 133 



(Harv. in Fl. Capensis, i. 88, and syns.). P. stenopetala, Klotzsch in Peters' 

 Mossamb. Bot. 114. t. 23 (as P. stenophylla). 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don I 



Lower Guinea. Angola, provs. Pungo Andongo, and (with flowers pilose) Huilla 

 ur. n elwitsch ! 



Var. metanophteba (Welw.). Flowers smaller. Wing-sepals ovate, narrowed at the base, 

 witb 3 conspicuous coloured loopiug nervures. Capsule obovate, shorter than the wings. 

 Angola, prov. Huilla, Dr. W elwitsch I 



i he same plant grows in Natal and Caffraria ; a form very near to P. metanophteba, differ- 

 ln g m having flowers twice as large and wings not marked by coloured nerves. 



19. P. Petitiana, Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 37. A glabrous, erect, leafy, 

 usually branching annual of 6-12 in. Leaves plane, membranous, linear, 

 nnrrowed to each end and finely pointed, 1-2 in. long, l£-2 lines broad, 

 ■flowers in terminal erect racemes ; pedicels usually exceeding the outer 

 sepals, subclavate, spreading or decurved ; bracts subulate, caducous. An- 

 terior sepals connate, emarginate. Wing-sepals ovate, often much narrowed 

 to the base, with 3 looping dark-coloured nerves, persistent. Lateral petals 

 rotundate or broadly obovate. Crest 0. Capsule oblong-elliptical, broadly 

 emarginate, exalate, glabrous, as long as and broader than the wings. — P. 

 Mratepala, Hoclist. in PI. Schimp. Abyss. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Scfiimper! Petit! 



20 - P. Huillensis, Welw. mss. A low, wiry and shrubby, glabrous 

 ° r puberulous herb of 1 ft. or under, with numerous diffuse or decum- 

 bent sometimes elongate branches, from a much divided root-stock. Leaves 

 r "ther thick, linear or oblanceolate-linear, pointed or obtuse and mucronulate 

 or sometimes emarginate, narrowed to the base, glabrous, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, £-1 i n> long, -^j. in. wide. Flowers in loose terminal or extra-axil- 

 jfy racemes, sometimes 2-3 in. long, often very short or flowers solitary, 

 tracts very early deciduous ; pedicels i in. or less, after flowering sharply 

 re nexed or patent, thickened upwards into the outer sepals, the anterior of 

 J'mch are connate and 2-fid. Wing-sepals greenish, elliptical, narrowed 

 y 0w with 3 principal nerves. Lateral petals obovate-cuneate, nearly equal- 

 £S 'the keel. Capsule quadrate-elliptical, emarginate, not winged, glabrous, 

 ^ds pubescent. 

 *«ower Guinea. Angola, prov. Huilla, Dr. Welmtsch! 



Branches 

 s linear- 



m ! Pi S*"ana, Webb, Frag. Fl. Mhiop. 81. Suffrutescent, branching. I 

 »cu ate-striate. Leaves sparse, linear, acute, subsessile. Spikes terminal. Bract 



jmceolate, subulate. Smaller sepals acute, red; lateral (wings) roundish-ovate, hyaline 



linmncrvcd, as long as the cristate, much-incurved, apiculate keel. Capsule? 

 N »le L and . Sennar? , ' __ w . . T 



W, : f 6 ., cri Ption, based upon a single flowering specimen, is taken from Mr. Webb. I 



" ave failed to identify it. 



ft *\ COn °«Perma, Bojer in Ann. Sc. Nat Set. 2. iv. 266. A rather weak herb of 1-2 

 m stem simple, 2-3-forked above with terminal racemes, glabrous Leaves erec t linear 

 Snl° rinUcronate . KlabrouB. obtuse at the base, 2 in. long, 1,-2 lines broad. 1 a ernes 

 BE erect ' "any-flowered. Flowers pedicellate, secund, pale rose. Bracts setaceous, 

 iqu, °U8, exeeediu'g the pedicels. Outer sepals 2, navicular, acute, half as long as the 1 



inner 



