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China, and according to Forbes and Hemsley from Southern China to the Eastern 

 Himalayan region southward through the Malayan Peninsula. E£ing, u however, 

 does not record the species from the Malayan Peninsula. 



Polygala luzoniensis Merrill sp, nov. 



A perennial herb, prostrate, branched from the base, the branches 



slender, pubescent, 10 to ;$() cm. long. Leaves oblong-ovate, acute, firm, 

 1 to 1.5 cm. long. 5 mm. wide or less, the base obtuse or rounded, rarely 

 subacute, the petiole very short, margins somewhat recurved, the nerves 

 ;{ to 4 on each side of the midrib, not prominent, glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent on the midrib on both surfaces. Flowers in short few flow- 

 ered axillary racemes, the bracts small, caducous. Outer sepals sub- 

 equal, 'i mm. long, oblong, obtuse, their margins with few hairs, the inner 

 sepals petaloid, elliptical-oblong, hyaline, rounded, 5 mm. long. .'! mm. 

 wide. 7-nened from the base, the reticulations not anastomosing, gla- 

 brous, all persistent in fruit. Corolla about 5 mm. long, slightly pubescent 

 below, the lateral petals connate for 'i mm., the free portions oblong, 

 obtuse, ,'i mm. long, 1 mm. wide. Keel calyptrate. quite entire, crested, 

 the crest !..") nun. long, many cleft, purplish. Stamina! tube, fret 1 portion, 

 l.o mm. long, the filaments united throughout, the anthers sessile on the 

 end of the lube, oblong, about 0.1 mm. long. Ovary glabrous; style 

 curved. 2 mm. long, glabrous; stigma lateral. Fruit flattened, orbicular. 



mm. in diameter, glabrous, membranous, reticulate-veined, somewhat 

 emarginate. the wing 1 mm. wide. Seed obovoid, "2 mm. long, brown. 

 uniformly but not densely villous, the strophiole with three hyaline 

 appendages, one 2 mm. long, the other two about 1 mm. long. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio to Ambuklao (4368 Mnrill) October, 1905. 



(hi dry hanks in grass lands at an altitude of about 1,600 m. 



Polygala septemnervia Merrill Bp. nov. 



An erect or suberect much branched annual herb 20 to 30 cm. high, 

 with small persistent bracts, and palmately 7 -nerved, strongly reticulately 

 veined orbicular-ovate to Bubelliptical inner sepals. Branches more or 

 less pilose. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 

 2.5 to <i cm. long. 3 to T mm. wide, membranous, the margins usually 

 strongly revolute, apex and base acute, with few scattered hairs on the 

 upper surface and margins, the lateral nerves obscure: petioles about 



1 mm. long. Racemes axillary and terminal, few or many flowered, 

 the flowers nodding, the axis slightly pubescent, the pedicels slender 2 

 to '.\ mm. long, bracts persistent, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, about 

 1 mm. long. Sepals strongly ret ieulate-veined, the three Outer ones 

 somewhat unequal, oblong to elliptical ovate, obtuse, ti to 'l.'i mm. long, 

 their margins minutely ciliate, the two inner ones petaloid, suborbicular 

 ovate to subelliptical, rounded. I mm. long in anthesis, 5 to 7 mm. long 

 in fruit, membranous, strongly palmately 7-nervod, the ret iculat ions 



'"'.Material for the Flora of the Malayan Peninsula (1889). 



