’ 
90 POLYGALEZ (Harv.) [ Polygala. 
long, 3 line broad, twice or thrice as long as the internodes, erecto-patent. The 
undivided crest of the keel is remarkable, and peculiar to this species and the fol- 
lowing. 
20. P. Ludwigiana (E. & Z.! No. 175.) ; suffruticose, glabrous, dif- 
fuse, with slender, angular branches ; leaves distantly scattered, subu- 
late, channeled, acutely mucronate ; racemes lateral, horizontally patent 
or deflexed, pedunculate, short and few-flowered ; pedicels very much 
shorter than the flower ; bracts persistent, subulate, downy ; alee broadly 
ovate, mucronulate, ant.. sepals roundish-ovate, acute, oblique ; keel 
with a very minute, undivided crest, lat. petals broadly spathulate, sub- 
entire ; capsule oblong-obcordate, scarcely indented. Drege No. 7201 ! 
Has. Among grass, on the mountains at Brackfontein, Clanwilliam, Z. & Z. / 
Nieuwekloof, Drege/ (Herb. Hook., Sond. & Benth.) 
A very slender, half herbaceous, slightly branched plant, with a few, very narrow, 
distant, erect leaves, and subumbellate, deflexed racemes. The crest of the keel is 
extremely minute, quite entire, and situated just below the apex, and may easily 
escape notice. The flowers are bright purple. I have chiefly described from Drege’s 
specimens, A single fragment from E. & Z. in Dr. Sonder’s Herbarium appears to 
be deformed, having the peduncles imbricated for § their length with closely set, 
empty bracts. ; 
21. P. brevifolia (Harv.) ; suffruticose, minutely downy, divaricately 
much branched, with angular, rigid branches ; leaves minute, scattered, 
downy, ovate-oblong or oblong, sharply mucronate, flat ; racemes lateral, 
horizontally patent, 1-2-flowered ; pedicels deflexed, clavate, much 
shorter than the flower ; bracts subulate, persistent ; alae broadly ovate, 
subacute, oblique, ant. sepals ovate, acute ; keel (without crest ?), lat. 
petals . . %; capsules narrow-obcordate. Drege No. 7202. 
Has. On the Blaauwberg, 3000-40001t., erb, Hook., Sond., Benth.) 
Seemingly proeteaie Stare 6-12 ce ek straight branches. Leaves 
1-2 lines long, few and far between. Peduncles supra-axillary, }~} inches long, 
near the apex, and in our specimens bearing a solitury flower. I have not 
seen the lat. petals, and only imperfectly the keel. 
Group 5. Hispipa. Small, half-herbaceous or suffruticose, hairy oF 
tomentose plants, with alternate, lanceolate or ovate (or sublinear) pubes- 
cent leaves. Racemes terminal, or lateral, erect. Alee broader than the 
capsule, (Sp. 22-30). 5 
PaRe?. pubiflora (Burch. ! Cat. No. 6205) ; suffruticose, rigid, villous ; 
leaves petiolate, spreading, ovato-lanceolate or lanceolate (the lower ones 
ovate), mucronate, laxly villous and ciliate, flat, thickish ; racemes ter- 
minal, few-flowered ; pedicels hispid, much shorter than the flower ; 
bracts ovate ; ale ovate, mucronulate, hairy, as well as the elliptic-ovate 
antervor sepals ; keel amply crested, lat. petals oblong-obovate, upturned, 
= Peace sides ; capsule elliptic-oblong, sub-emarginate. DC. Prod. 
Has. 8. Africa, M | 
Se - aston ! Burchell } Kaffer's Kraal, Herb. Hooker! (Herb. Banks 
More or less hairy in all parts, especially on the sepals and ale, P. pubiflora of 
E. & Z. ! No. 156 is only a hairy form of P. bracteolara ; its calyx is quite glabrous. 
23. P. gracilipes (Harv.) ; root woody, stems suffruticose, tufted, his- 
