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Polygala. POLYGALEZ (Harv.) 87 
crested, lat. petals broadly spathulate ; capsule oblong-obcordate ; seeds 
densely albo-setose. P.rigens,H. Mey! P. recta, Presl.! . 
Has. Between Natvoet and the Gareep and Camdebo. Drege / Namaqualand, 
Zeyher / (Herb. Burch! T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A small, rigid, much branched undershrub, 1-2 feet high ; the peduncles, after 
the flowers fall, indurating, but not spinous. Leaves }-} inch long ; flowers 2-3 
lines long, pale, the alee whitish, with green veins. I describe chiefly from Drege’s 
and Zeyher’s specimens, which Ihave compared with an authentic fragment, received 
from Dr. Burchell. 
12. P. ericefolia (DC. Prod. 1. p. 323.) ; suffruticose, glabrous or 
nearly so, with virgate branches ; leaves crowded, erect, rigid, linear- 
subulate or lanceolate, acutely mucronate, flattish, ribbed or keeled be- 
low, with the margin microscopically denticulate or rough, the younger 
leaves ciliate ; racemes terminal (or sublateral) short, corymbose, few 
flowered ; pedicels shorter or longer than the flower ; bracts persistent, 
ovate, keeled ; alze ovate-elliptical, obtuse, mucronulate, ant. sepals ovate, 
obtuse, ciliolate ; keel crested, lat. petals either short and subtruncate, 
or unequally bilobed, the after-lobe minute, ovate, the anterior sword- 
shaped ; capsule oblong-obcordate. EZ. & Z.! No. 164. Drege 7200! 
Var. a. ericoides; leaves flattish, conspicuously denticulate ; late- 
ral petals commonly bilobed. P. ericefolia E.& Z. 
Var, 8, Eckloniana; leaves narrower and more subulate, somewhat 
channelled, round-backed or keeled ; petals commonly bilobed. P. 
fickloniana, Lehm, E.& Z.! 162. P. pungens, E. & Z.! 165. P. ace- 
rosa, H. Mey. P. No. 5614, Burchell ! 
Var. y. Mundtiana; leaves broader, and more lanceolate, midribbed ; 
petals short and truncate. P. Mundtiana, E.& Z.! 167. 
Var. 6. microlopha ; more branching, with fewer and shorter, smooth- 
edged leaves ; smaller flowers, less divided crests to the keel, and une- 
qually bilobed petals. P. microlopha, E.§ Z./ 168. (an DC.41 c.) 
P. pungens, E. Mey ! pm 
Has. Grassy places, among small shrubs. From Capetown to Kaffirland. 
Swellendam aad Direhage, E. ez! B. Cape Flats, Wotlon® WALEL &e. y. Swel- 
lendam, Mundt! Sparmann! (in Herb, Holm.) (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A slender, virgulate, many-stemmed undershrub, 6-12-18 inches high. Leaves 
generally very erect, variable in abundance, length, breadth, and roughness of the 
edges, &c. The petals vary, as above described, in specimens from the same locality 
and which are otherwise identical. Extreme forms look somewhat different, but 
the larger the suit of specimens examined, the more difficult will it be found to sepa- 
rate the above varieties. I have not seen any authentic specimen of Burchell’s P. 
13. P. ciliatifolia (Turez. Anim. No. 2671.) ; suffruticose, glabrous, 
or nearly so ; leaves densely set, erecto-patent, rigid, linear-subulate, 
acute, mucronate, flat, midribbed, conspicuously ciliate-denticulate ; ra- 
cemes terminal, erect, subumbellate, few flowered ; pedicels filiform, 
longer than the flowers ; bracts subulate, acute ; alee ovate, acute, ant. 
sepals ovate, acuminate, not ciliolate ; keel moderately crested, lat. pe- 
tals small, linear-oblong, truncate, capsule... % P. macra, E & Z. 
166, (non DC.) P. ciliolata, Hare. 
Has. Mountain slopes near the Pot, Steenbocks, and Klyn-rivers, Caledon, FE. & 
Z. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond ) ee 
