Polygala.} POLYGALEZ (Harv.) 85 
and corymbose. P. wmbellata, Thunb. Cap. 555. P. pubiflora, E.&Z.! 
156. (not of Burch.) P. calycina, Presl. ! 
Has. Moist, sandy flats and mountain sides ; common throughout the colony 
(Herb. Thunb., T.C.D., Hook., Sond., &c.) 
12-18 inches high, erect or spreading, mostly many branched from near the base, 
but often quite simple. Flowers bright purple, showy and amply crested. Inter- 
mediate states occur between the two varieties. quandh hale ag a. 
7. P.triquetra (Presl., Bot. Bem. p.15.); glabrous, suffraticose, many- 
stemmed ; stems sub-simple, virgate, sharply triangular or winged ; 
leaves sessile, erect, rigid, callous and scaberulous at the margin, sharply 
mucronate, midribbed, the lower ones lanceolate, the upper linear, subu- 
late ; racemes terminal (or lateral) erect, densely many-flowered ; pe- 
dicels as long as the ale ; bracts deciduous, subulate, acute ; ale clawed, 
ovate, acute, anterior sepals ovate ; lateral petals longer than the amply- 
crested keel, erect, oblong-cucullate ; capsule winged, elliptic-oblong, 
entire ; seeds albo-setose. Drege 7193. 
_ Has. South Africa, Drege/ (Herb. T.C.D., Hoek., Sond.) 
_ A remarkably rigid under-shrub, 12~18 inches high, scarcely branched. Flowers 
much smaller than in P. bracteolata, and less coloured : ale greenish white in fruit. 
‘Drege (Linn. Vol. 19.) refers it to P. Beitiana, E. & Z. ! but that, according to authen- 
tic specimens, isa Muraltia/ 
ee 
_ §. P. virgata (Thunb. Cap. p. 555.) ; shrubby, glabrous or puberu- 
lous, with virgate, terete branches ; leavés scattered, distant or close, 
either cuneiform and mucronate, or linear, or lanceolate, obtuse or 
acute, mostly tapering to the base, the margin slightly reflexed ; racemes 
_ terminal, elongating, many flowered ; pedicels shorter than the flower ; 
bracts subulate, deciduous, alee broadly elliptical or suborbicular, very ob- 
__ tuse, ant. sepals elliptical, concave ; keel amply crested, sub-acute, lat, — 
_ petals clawed, flabelliform, sub-truncate, flattish or involute ; capsule , L\.; 
-___-—- obeordate, winged. P. simplex, P. speciosa, and P. genistoides, DO. *” ais wa ee 
 - Prod, 1. p. 322-323. P.cernua, Thunb. Cap. 555 (not LE. & Z.) ae “Helly 
‘Var. a. decora; branches and young leaves minutely downy ; leaves 6 
_ lanceolate, and linear-lanceolate ; racemes very long, and bracteze much . 
acuminate, and tardily deciduous. P. decora, Sond. ! Linn. 23. p. 14, : 
_ -Dietr. Fl. Univ. t. 79! P. bracteata, Drege! P. lasiopoda, Presl. ! 
ie Var. 8. intermedia ; glabrous ; lower leaves very long, lanceolate, 
upper shorter and linear, mucronate. Drege 7211. 2. Burmanni, DC.? 
(fide Presl.) ; also P. longifolia, Presl.! 
Var. y. speciosa ; glabrous or nearly so; lower leaves obovate, or 
cuneate, upper more linear, all obtuse or sub-truncate, mucronulate ; 
tacemes long and lax, bractese soon deciduous. P. speciosa, Bot. Mag. 
t. 1780. DU. Prod. t. p. 323. H. & Z. 146. P. virgata, E. & Z.! 145. 
Drege, 7187! P. simplex, DC. 1. ¢. 
_ Var. 6.1 Sprengeliana; minutely downy or glabrescent; leaves 
linear, tapering at base, obtuse, mucronulate ; racemes shorter, and 
_ flowers smaller than in var. y P. Sprengeliana, E. & Z. ! 147. 
Var. «. genistoides; glabrous; leaves few, distant, very narrow- 
_ linear, acute or obtuse, sometimes subulate ; racemes many-flowered, eae 
flowers larger or smaller. P. cernua, Thunb. ! (fide Herb. Holm.!) P, 
