Sulompnia.\ xvi. polygale^. (A. W. Bennett.) 207 



data, Am. Pug. Lid, 4; Wight, III. I t. 22 C; Thwaites Enum. 22 {excl 

 sj/mns.); Ilassk. in Miq. Ann. Mm. Lugd.~Bat I 145. 1 S. angulata, Griff, 

 Aotid. IV. 539. Polygala ciliata, Liim. 



Cktlon, in swampy ground. 



Stouter than S. canton i en sis. Stem erect, glabrous, furrowcf?, scarcely wiirged. 

 i>^ayes small, strongly ciliate. Flowers crowded, small, pink, sessile. Sepah lanceo- 

 iateciliate. Capsule small, broader than long, with a row of red filiform teeth. Sced<s 

 Uack^ sbiinng, with a small membranous stn^phiole. — Wight and Arnott are in error 

 vn taking Linnjeus'sPoZy^ra/a ciliata for a true Polygala. The specimen in Herb. 

 ilarman. m the British Museum, clearly shows it to be a Salomonia, and identical with 

 Amott's S. cordata. 



S. S, oblon^ifolia, DC. Prodr. I 354 ; leaves elliptic or ovate-lanceo- 

 iate not cihate, teeth of capsule filiform. Ilassk in Miq. Ann. Mus. Lngd.- 

 ^f' 1., 147; Am. Pag. Ind. 4: Deless. Ic. iSel. iii. t. 19. S. sessiliflora, 

 ^apl. 171 Dm Prodr. 201. S. obovata, Wight III. i. t 22 B. S. canarana, 

 ngida, ?Horneri, ? uncinata and ? setosa-ciliata, Ilassk. I.e. 147, 148, 149. 

 J^. stncta, Sieb. et Zucc. Ahh. d. k baier. Akad. d. Wiss. iv. 2, 152. S. lep- 

 xostachya, Wall. Cat. 4193. Polygala canarana and Arnottiana, Ilassk Ic. 



Shbtkop. Himalaya, from Nipal to Sikkim ; Khasia Mts. ; Eastern and Western 

 ^ENiNsDLAs; Ceylon.— DiSTHiB. Maluj an Archipclago, Australia, 

 i^yv simple or branched annual. Leaves larger than in S. ciliata, sessile, not cordate, 

 in? "r'T*' a few long distant hairs. Bracts linear, often persistent at time of flower- 

 Inf 7 ^'^"^^'^ crowded, small, pink. Sepals nearly equal, lanceolate, slightly ciliate. 

 ir9^<^^ol petals much shorter than keel. Capsule small, with a row of red teeth. '^--''- 

 /"au, fchinmg, not strophiolate.— Very near the last, but probably distinct. 



Seeds 



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lea^p^' ®?®^*^la, DC Prodr. i. 334; 



5^>^es cordate-triangular very shortly petioled, capsule scarcely toothed. 

 ^a,?sA. in J/ij^ Wall. Cat. Al^^. S. petiolata, 



««»!. in Don Prodr. 200. 

 :;^iPAL, WaUich. 



minntP^'/'^!^^^^^ annual. Sjnkes lax below, denser above. Flowers minute. Bracts 

 lonff a ^^^^dutjua. Sepals very small, ovate. Lateral petals broad and nearly as 

 tootha^^ o ^^^^^^^ ktel. Capsule very small, membranous, not ciliate, minutely 

 ^thed. Seeds black, shining, not strophiolate. ' 



duced to sc ^P''*^*^^^*'*®^, Blame (gen.). Parasitic; leaves or re- 



lhtif\ *P^y"a» Grif. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 342. S. parasitica. Griff. 

 ^«- IV. 538. S. tenella, Hooh.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiil 158. 



A brown"^ ^""^ Tenasserfm, Gr;ffith.-T)i^Tum. Borneo. . ^ .^^ 



&«»n 3_fi • P*''''^'te, associated witli TImmia Brunoniana ancl a Burmanma (GrifT.). 

 •cales <?"•■/ *''°^"di"g, sparingly divided. Leaves reduced to a few distant brown 

 flovperinfr pf ""™e'"ous, elongated, very dense. Bract^i minute, persistent after 

 l>fanoua k. ^r'V m'nule, brown. Sepals distinct, broadly ovate. Capsvle mm- 

 'ate strJphiX ^°"^' °°* ^'^**®- ^^"^^ minute, black, with a smairappendicu- 



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^inilllin A ^^'"ost always scandent. Flowers in terminal or axillary usually 

 I^terJz, racemes. Sejmls deciduous, 2 inner hiings) larger and petaloid. 

 »-' ' i'eff^ nearly or quite distinct from the galeate crested keel, superior 



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