ISO 



POLYGALACEAE, PRAESERTIM INDICAE. 



bivalvis. Smina in loculo quoque solitarlu iiendula ovifonnia compressiuscnla nigrescentia, pilis deorsum direc- 

 tis ri'ndis sericeo-hirsuta, carunciUa Haves centi-albida lucidida mammaeformi exappendiculata coronata. If" loiiga, 

 f" lata; albumen uti cotyledoiies lacteum tenue, periphericum, iisdem singulis tenuius. 



Hab. Ahifmnia, ad margines fruticetornm in m. Scholada, 23 Oct.: schimper. 



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36. POLYGALA RUPICOLA hoghst. et steud. 



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Cf. WAt.P. Annal. 11. p. 80, 3. 

 Descripl. Caulu basi lignosus ramosus flexuosus (e rupium fissuris forsan dependens, nam rami [floreutes illo 

 pai-alleic adsceiiduut) corticosus rimosus cinerascens, 3" longus, ultra 1'" crassus; rami seusim teimiores, co- 

 piosi, caespitem formantes, adscendeuti-curvati, rugosi tomcntelli flavescentes, iteratim ramulosi; rmmili longi 

 erecti, ultra 1' longi, apice iterum ramulosi, cernui, floriferi tenues, teretes tomentelli cinerascenti-virides, fo- 

 liosi. Folia altenia breviter petiolata, ad basin ramulorum et innovationum minora latiora et obtusa, ovalia 

 4)5'" longa, 22'" lata, obovata 5'" longa, %\"' lata, aut subrotunda %'" louga, W" lata, apice mucronulo mi- 

 nuto praedita-, flunma elliptica V" longa, 3'" lata, aut elliptico-oblonga b'" louga, 2i"' lata, aut oblonga 

 5"' longa, I2'" lata, aut summa ramorum et innovationum oblongo-lanceolata 6 — 4'" longa, 1| — 1'" lata; (3H2- 

 nia acutissiiua, plus miimsive in mucroncm brevem attenuata, glabra, margine ciliolata, ciliis dein deciduis, 

 membi-anacea, rigidiuscula. liaceml tcrminales, sensim elongati 2 — 5" longi, apice saepe nutantes, grandi- et 

 sensim multiflori ; hracteae minutae deciduae, e basi latiuscula acuminatae, erectae, margine membranaceae, ci- 

 liolatae, \"' longae; bradeohe 2 collatcrales erectae quam bractea \ breviores, angustae subuliformes ; rhaehis 

 puberula, apicem versus albido-lanugiuosa, e protuberautiis iusertionum pediccUorum decurrentibus augulata; 

 pedicelli erecti recti, vix apice cernui, superne paulisper incrassati et angulati; jlores sat magni, Calycu 

 persi::>t cutis foliola 3 externa parva ovato-oblonga acuta concava, margine albido lato, nervo medio crassiusculo 

 cariuata; posticum anticis 1'" longis \ loiigius; interna 2 alaeformia maxima albida nicmbranacea sub-3-uer- 

 via, nervis eorumque ramis viridibus, subinaequilatera, ovalia acutiuscula (nee obtusiuscula), coroUae ipsius 

 longitudine, 3'" longa, 2'" lata, basi leviter oblique attenuata (vix unguiculata}, latere superiore paulo angus- 

 tiore, margine superiore magis recto, inferiore convcxo, glabcrrima, lucidula, dcin quam capsula paulo lon- 

 giora, eamquc arete iucludcntia. Fetala 2 superiora quam carina paulo breviora, eiqne basi adnata, supra eius 

 iissuram conniventia obovato-oblonga, basi rectiuscula, apice rotundata, margine superiore ciliolata; carina lata, 

 e basi horizontali subito dilatata, primo descendens et angulo obtusissimo medium circulum formante adsceu- 

 dens, apice 3-loba, lobis lateralibus ovatis acutis coniiiventibus, margine interiore connatis in cucuUum, dorso 

 sulcatum, in sulco cristam recipientem, genitalia foventem, apice purpureum; tertio intermedio in cristam stipi- 

 tatam mutato multifidam fastigiatam, quam lobi laterales loiigiorem. Capsula obcordato-ovalis, basi cuneata acuta, 

 lobis acutiusculis, in margine late alata, 3'" longa, 2'" lata, ala basi angusta, apicem versus latiore ^"' lata, 

 lucidula glabcrrima, papilloso-punctulata, 2-locularis, 2-sperma, in margine lociilicide 2-valvis, Semina in lo- 

 culis solitaria, pendula, oblonga, dense sericeo-villosa, villis basin seminis excedentibus, caruncula crassiuscula 

 albida mammaeformi glabriuscula coronata, appendiculis vix ullis aut minutissimis ad cms quodque caaunculae* 

 2'" longa, I'" lata (scd immatura !) 



HxVB- Abyssinia, in m. Kubbi, ad rupes umbrosas, 29 Dec,: schimper n. 354. 



37. POLYGALA lAVANA dc, 



Ohscrv. P. iavana DC. Prodr. I. p. 327, QQ, sed diagnosis differt: racemis 7 — 8-floris folii longitudine, calycis 

 foliolis internis capsula paulo longioribus; w. et aun. Prodr. 1. p. 38, 137 plane cum nostr. quadrat; d. dietr. 

 S^nops. IV. p. 894, 29; hassk. Belz. I. p. 148, 102 (walp. Ann. II. p. 238, 9), Hori. Bogor. I. p. 24, 14; 

 MiQ. Flor. Ind. bat. I. 2. p. 124, 1, cuius diagnosis sat congruit et qui pariter plantam citatam "wallichii et 



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zoi,i,iNGEKii herb. n. 2713 hue ducit, quae ulterior autem omuino diversa, ad sequentem speciem pertinet. 



Lescriptioni meae [Beiz. et Hart. Bog, l.L c.c.) addara sequeutia. Folia obovata, basin versus plus minusve cu- 

 neato-attenuata, apice acuta, rotundata iraoque sed rarius retnsa, nunc obovato-oblonga, imposito semper mu- 

 cronulo minuto, 14'" longa, 6'-" lata, aut T" longa, 3i— 4'" lata, aut 17—6'" longa, 8-4"' lata, primo pu- 

 berula, dein glabrata, subtus gkucescentia. Flores in racemos oppositi folios aut suboppositifolios, nunc laterales 

 i — 2 et sensim 3" longos patentes, primo paucifloros, sensim multifloros collecti, nunc sed raro solitarii in 

 axillis foliorum, aut in raceinulos laterales valde abbreviatos paucifloros nunc subunifloros congcsti; r/iacMs 

 puberula, floribus fructibusque dein deciduis nuda; hracteae ovatae acutae, ^"' longae, cum bracteolis 2 coUate- 

 ralibus angustioribus et brevioribus patentes et nunc refractae persistentes, pubenilae aut hirsutae; pediceUt 

 primo erecti, dein patentes, vix 1'" exccdentes, fructiferi dein cernui, paulo lougiores, puberuli. Calycis persis- 

 tentis foUoIa externa subaequalia viridia puberula, internis adpressa, excrescentia et dein patentissima, 2'" longa, 



