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88 POLYGALEZ (Harv.) 
Closely related to P. ericefolia, but differing as follows: The bracts are much 
longer, and more acute, the ale and ant.-sejals and lat.-petals are very different, and 
the leaves are much more decidedly denticulate. Theinflorescence is more umbellate 
than in any other Cape species. 
14. P. Garcini (DC. Prod. 1. p. 323.) ; glabrous, suffruticose, with te- 
rete, virgate branches ; leaves linear-subulate, scattered, channelled above, 
keeled below, erect, mucronate ; racemes terminal, many-flowered ; pedi- 
cels much shorter than the flower ; bracts deciduous, ovate, keeled ; 
alze oval, obtuse, ant. sepals ovate-orbicular, very obtuse ; keel shorter 
than the ample crest, lat, petals as long as the keel, spathulate, truncate ; 
capsule oblong, sharply bidentate, margined, but not winged. Z£. & Z. 
161. Burm. t. 73. f. 3. Drege 7203, 7210. P. bracteolata, y, Linn. Thunb. 
in Herb. Holm. : 
Has. Mts. and Hills round Capetown ; also Hott. Holland, and Saldanha Bay. 
E. & Z. Pappe, &c. common. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook. Sond. &c.) 
1-1} feet high, divided near the root ; branches sub-simple. Flowers bright purple. 
Alz longer than the crest and much enlarged in fruit, becoming obovate. The cap- 
sule is usually notched, very rarely quite entire. 
15. P. tenuifolia (Link, Hort. Berol. 2. p. 220) ; suffruticose, gla- 
brous, or nearlyso, with angular, virgate branches ; leaves linear or 
obovato-linear or oblong, approximate, flattish, with slightly revolute mar- ° 
gins, obtuse, mucronulate, midribbed ; racemes terminal, many-flowered, 
elongating ; pedicels clavate, shorter than the flower ; bracts deciduous, 
subulate ; alze oval, obtuse, anterior sepals connate into a single, biden- 
date calyx segment; keel oblong, with a small crest, lat.-petals as long as 
the keel, obovate or obcordate ; capsule oblong, bidentate, margined. Z. 
& Z. 163. P. tenuis, Dietr. (non DC.) 
Var. a, latifolia ; leaves varying from linear to elliptic-oblong or oval, 
Fe 8. linearis; leaves narrow linear, erect, and straight, P. linearis, 
. Mey. 
VaR. y. uncinata ; leaves obovato-linear, or linear, recurved at the 
point. P. uncinata, HE. Mey. P. rigens, E. & Z. 173. (not of Drege, or 
Burchell. ) : ; 
_Has. Var. a, Port Natal, Sanderson. B & y. Eastern Districts, Caffraria and 
Natal ; Various collectors, (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
6-12 inches high, more or less branching. ‘Leaves very variable in number and 
eon Flowers with the perfume of violets ; the keel dark purple, the wings pale, 
1 dark green, branching veins, This species is readily known by the confluent 
anterior sepals, whose edges cohere for more than 3 of the whole length. 
Group 4. Rerracra. Slender suffrutices, with scattered leaves, gla- 
brous or thinly downy. Racemes lateral, pedunculate, few flowered, very 
patent or reflened. Keel either crested or nearly nude. (Sp. 16-21). 
16, P. affinis (DC. Prod. 1 otal om 
: ; (UU. Frod. t. p. 322) ; half herbaceous or suffruticose, 
erect or diffuse, thinly tomentose, with filiform stems ; leaves linear or _ 
lanceolate, obtuse or mucronn’ ace ST nearer 
on ccoelats saan or mucronulate, pubescent, midribbed, with reflexed 
cunule marguns ; racemes opposite the leaves, short and few-flowered, 
spreading or reflexed ; the flowers subdi distant, on deflexed short pedicels; 
bracts persistent, ovate, acute; alse elliptic ovate sctorete weno icte: 
[Polygala. 
