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terminales, intermedio 2-unciali 20-floro, lateralibus abbre- 
viatis. Florum pedicelli gracillimi. Ale 3 lin. longze, ciliate. 
Capsula subquadrata, angulis rotundatis. 
Apparently a very distinct species, easily recognized by the 
form of the ale. 
5. Polygala Guineensis, Willd. Sp. 8. p. 882.—P. multiflora, 
Poir. Dict. 5. p. 497 ?—Accra, Ansell. 
Herba bipedalis, di-trichotome ramosa. Rami gracillimi, erecti, 
virgati. Folia 14-2 unc. longa, filiformia, vix 1 lin. lata, 
subflexuosa, erecta, viridia. Racemi terminales, erecti, 4-5 
unc. longi. Flores secundi, parvi, bracteolis setaceis valde 
caducis suffulti, pedicellati, patentes v. nutantes, ccerulei, 
pedicellis 1 lin. longis, subclavatis. Sepala 2 exteriora coalita, 
apicibus liberis. A/@ obovate, glaberrimz, concave, 14 lin. 
longe. Carina longe cristata. Capsula obovato-quadrata, 
glaberrima, apice biloba. 
A remarkably distinct, and singularly slender species. 
The remaining W. African species known to me are, 1 P. 
erioptera, DC., a species common to Senegal, Egypt and Arabia : 
it is probably identical with P. triflora and linearifolia, Roth, 
(non auct.) in which the leaves are sharp; in all the carina is 
crested, though P. triflora is placed erroneously in the group 
“carina nuda.” 2. P. paniculata, Lin. var. Africana, DC., 
from Senegal, a species widely diffused in America, some 
Specimens from the Plata River have the flowers as small as. 
the African, but white, and it is possibly further identical with 
the P. capillaris, E. Meyer, from South Africa; and, lastly, 
3. P. obtusata, Guill. et Perr., from Senegal, which completes 
the list of W. African Polygale. 
l. Lophostylis oblongifolia, Hochst. in Ratisb. Flora, 1842, n. 
15.—On the Quorra, Vogel, who describes it as a middle- 
sized tree; Senegal. 
Dr. Vogel’s specimen is imperfect, and in fruit only, but I 
think referable to this species, which has a wide range, being 
found also in Abyssinia. The propriety of separating this 
from Securidaca is perhaps doubtful. 
