94 POLYGALEZ ( Harv.) [ Polygala. 
simple, glabrous, with angular stems ; leaves few and distant, linear- 
subulate, acute, or mucronate ; racemes terminal, spike-like, elongating, 
many-flowered ; pedicels much shorter than the minute flowers ; bracts 
subulate, deciduous ; alee oval, obtuse, 3—nerved, ant. sepals narrow-ob- 
long, subacute ; keel subglobose, crested, shorter than the ovate-oblong 
petals ; capsule oval-orbicular. 
Has. Between the Omsamculo and Omcomas, in boggy spots, under 500 feet. 
Drege! Macallisberg, Burke and Zeyher! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
A very slender annual (?), 2-6 or 12 inches high, its virgate branches ending in a 
long dense raceme of minute, subsessile, whitish flowers. The keel has a fleshy crest 
cut into four or eight lobes. 
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APpPENDIX.—Species unknown to me, or altogether doubtful. 
33. P. tomentosa (Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 556); “stem shrubby, erect, 
villous, branching, 2 feet high, or more ; branches sub-opposite ; leaves 
opposite, sessile, ovate, mucronate, entire, with revolute margins, glab- 
rous on the upper, tomentose on the lower surface, crowded but spread- 
ing, an inch long ; flowers sessile in the axils of the leaves throughout 
the whole length of the branches.” —Thunb., 1.c. 
A very imperfect specimen, without flowers, exists in Herb. Holm.! 
34. P. intermedia (DC. Prod. 1. p. 322) ; “leaves oblong-linear, mu- 
cronate, with revolute margins ; ramuli glabrous ; bracts persistent, of 
equal length ; pedicels something longer than the flower ; alee sub-cus- 
pidate.” DC. lc. 
Can this be our Var. 8 of P. peduncularis? or a var. of P. bracteolata? 
35. P. Burmanni (DC. Prod. 1. p. 322); “leaves linear, rather obtuse ; 
branches velvetty ; racemes supra-axillary ; pedicels shorter than the 
flower ; bracts deciduous.” DC. Burch. Cat.6437. Burm. t. 73, f- 4 
36. P. pungens (Burch. Cat. No. 1598. trav. p. 304) ; “leaves linear, 
subacute, narrow, few ; branchlets divaricating, glaucous, rigid, spinous 
at the point ; racemes 2—4-flowered.” DC... 
37. P. polyphylla (DC. Prod. 1. p. 324); “leaves oblong, acute at 
each end, crowded, scabrous on the back and the edges; branches 
downy ; pedicels axillary, one-flowered ; ale suborbicular.” DC.1.c. 
_ 38. P. venuloga (Dictr.) ; “branches terete, smooth ; leaves alternate, 
oblong, mitcronulate, glabrous ; bracts ovate, equal, persistent ; al 
ovate, acute, veiny ; lat. petals bifid, with nearly equal, acute lobes.” 
Walp. Repert. 1. p.235, No. 38. ¢ 
99. P. longifolia (Dictr.); “branches terete, hairy ; leaves alternate, 
lanceolate, acute, glabrous ‘ tracts lanceolate, obtuse, subequal, persist- 
ent ; ale oblong, apiculate ; lat. petals bifid, inner segments very long 
and narrow, outer patent, obtuse.” — Walp. l. ce. No. 39. . 
40. P. diffusa (Dietr.) ; seems to be one of the endless forms of P. 
