POLYGALACEAE. 



Detennined by Alfbed Rehder and E. H. Wilsox. 



POLYGALA L. 



arillata 



(1824). — Wallich, PL As. Ear. L t. 100 (1830). — Wight, Icon. III. 

 t. 946 (1843-50). — Bennett in Hooker f., FL BriL Ind. I. 200 

 (1872). — Franchet in Nouv, Arch. Mus. Paris, s6r. 2, VIII. 203 {PI 

 David. II. 21) (1886); PL Delavay. 77 (1889). — Chodat in Mem. 

 Soc. Phys. Geneve, Suppl. No, VIII. 94, t. 17, fig. 12-14 {Monog. 

 PolygaL) (1891). — Dials in BoL Jahrb. XXIX. 426 (1900). 



Chamaebuxits arillata Hasskarl in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 153 (1863-64). 

 Chamaehuxus yaniculata Hasskarl in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 154 (1863-64). 



June 



and July 1907 (Nos. 3198, 3200; bush 1-2 m., flowers yellow); Fang 



June 



Patung Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-1000 m., June 1907 (No. 3^97; t^ush 

 1-1.5 m., flowers yellow); without locality. May 1900 (Veitch Exped. 

 > No. 1274); without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 5783, 5783^). West- 

 ern Szech'uan: Chin-ting-shan, alt. 600-1000 m., May 25, 1908 

 (No. 3196; bush 1-1.5 TCi.j flowers golden-yellow) ; Tachien-lu, thickets, 



June 



golden-yellow); without precise locality, alt. 1300 m., May 1904 



Jxme 



Exped. No. 4741); neighborhood of Tachien-lu, A. E. Pratt (No. 

 108). Yunnan: Mengtze, mountains, alt, 1600 m,, A, Henry (Nos, 

 9999, 9999**): Szemao. mountains, alt. 1600 m.. A. Henry CNos. 12621, 



12621*). Hongkong : C. Wright (No, 22). 



This is a very common shrub in thickets and on cliffs in western Hupeh and in 

 Szech'uan and very variable in size of leaf, in length of raceme and in the number 

 of flowers on the raceme. In No. 3201 the shoots terminate in from 1 to 3 racemes 

 but in all the other Chinese specimens before us the raceme is soUtary. We have 

 not seen Polygala fallax Hemsley (in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 59 [1886]) nor P. 



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