ou ae 
- Polygala.] POLYGALEE (Harv.) 89 
hispidulous, ant. sepals ovate, hairy ; keel crested, lat. petals obovate, bi- 
lobed or bidentate ; capsule obcordate, wider than theale. FE. d& Z. 172. 
Drege, (pro parte) also P. hispida, E. ‘Mey. (non Burch ). 
Has. South Africa, Masson, in Herb. Banks, Paarlberg, Dr. Alexander, Moun- 
tains near Caledon, and the Winterhoeksberg, Tulbagh, E. & Z. River Zonderende, 
Zeyher, Hex-riviers Kloof, Drege. Formerly cultivated at Kew. (Herb. Banks., 
Hook., Sond). 
Root slightly branched. Stems 6-12 inches high, slender, branching. Leaves } 
# inch long, sometimes with a reflexed point, 4 to 1 line broad. Flowers pale, 4-8 
in a lax, deflexed raceme, the ube with dark veins. This has the foliage and pu- 
bescence of some starved states of wre and the hairy sepals of P. pubiflora, but 
a very different inflorescence. 
17. P. refracta (D.C. Prod. 1. p. erate suffruticose, erect, glabrous, 
branching, the branches angular ; leaves scattered, subulate, keeled, 
erecto-patent. acute, mucronate, flattish above, racemes lateral, horizon- 
tally patent or refiexed, few-flowered, pedicels clavate, as long as the 
flower, deflexed, bracts deciduous, lanceolate, acute ; ale broadly ovate, 
mucronulate ; keel with a short multifid crest, lat. petals sharply bifid; 
capsule obcordate, narrower than the al. 
Var. 8. Steudeliana; leaves very remote, and shorter, Z. & Z. No. ane 
Has. On the Cape Flats, W.H.H. &c. Ecklon, Grahamstown, 7. Williamson, 
(Herb. T.C.D., Hook. Sond). 
A slender, straggling, slightly branched undershrub, 12-16 inches high; a or 
spreading. "Flowers purple, turning greenish when dry, 
18. P. macra (DC. Prod. 1. p. 323) ; suffruticose, glabrous, many- 
stemmed, with sub-simple, dena acute-angular branches ; leaves few 
and distant, minute, subulate, acute, erect, the uppermost reduced to 
mere scales ; racemes lateral, patent or reflexed, few-flowered, pedicels 
about as long as the flower, bracts deciduous, subulate ; alze ovate, acute, 
broader than the capsule ; keel with a multifid crest; lateral petals chery 
bifid ; capsule obcordate. P, Pappeana, E. & Z. 176. P. restate; Me. 
Mey, % in Herb. Drege. also Drege, No. 7205. 
Hap. Among Restios, on the Mts., near the Waterfall, Tulbagh, Z. &Z. Dutoite . 
Kloof, 2~3000 ft. Drege. (Herb. Hook., Benth., Sond.) 
Stems very slender, diffuse or decumbent, curved, often nearly leafless. sLenves 
very minute, and close pressed. Flowers rather small, aes with shorter 
_ or longer pedicels. This so closely agrees with De Candolle’s and answers 
80 aptly to the Seivial name mace Gmongse) Heh L have Betis of the name. £, 
& Z. innocaakiieaill the inflorescence an wmbel, sod tao isd tearfas > their own spe- 
cimens have: xacenes and saamiply crested keel. 
19. P. Lehmanniana & Z.! No. 177) ; suffruticose, glabrous or 
pubescent, slightly bran with angular branches ; leaves closely ap- 
proximate, linear-lanceolate, acute, mucronate, flat, midribbed ; racemes 
lateral, horizontally patent or deflexed, few flowered ; ; pedicels shorter 
than the flowers, deflexed ; bracts subpersistent, subulate, acute ; ale 
ovate-elliptical, obtuse, ant. sepals ovate-oblong, acute, oblique ; keel with 
a flabelliform, undivided crest ; lat. petals deeply bi-lobed, ‘the posterior 
lobe broad, oblong, the anterior narrow linear. 
tig places round the Lion's Head, C ;endon 
Mountain sides, Srabide: / Seen oir rar Benth). 
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