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Mundtia.} POLYGALEZ (Harv.) 95 
I. MUNDTIA, Kunth. 
Sepals 5, the two lateral (ale) much larger than the rest, winglike and 
coloured. Petals 3, united at base and attached to the staminal tube ; 
the lower one keel shaped, enclosing the stamens, emarginate, with a 
multifid crest below its apex (in the Cape species) ; lateral petals small, 
oblong. Stamens 8, united into a split tube. Style compressed, thick- 
ened upwards, two-lobed, the posterior lobe horizontal, the anterior ver- 
tical. Fruit, a fleshy one or two-seeded drupe. DC. Prod. 1. p. 337- 
Rigid glabrous shrubs, with scattered leaves, spinous-tipped branches, and axillary, 
solitary, pedicellate flowers. Two species are known, one a native of the Cape, the 
other of Brazil. The generic name is in honour of Mundt, a meritorious collector of 4), (d (oe 
8. African plants. A, f i 
1. M. spinosa (DC. Prod. 1. p. 338); divaricately much branched ; Semats Beg- fun, 
branches angular, furrowed, glabrous, spine-tipped ; Waves either ellip- Houle L 
tical, obovate, cuneate or linear, obtuse or mucronulate, thick, glabrous 30.5... ante : 
flowers minutely pedicellate ; alee sub-orbicular ; petals nearly as long 88 Ce h~ humdiw 
the amply crested keel, linear or spathulate, obtuse. Polygala spinosa, Baraat mee 
Linn. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 556. den 
Var. @. latifolia; robust, with short and leafy branches ; leaves oval N 
or obcordate. M. tabularis, E. & Z.! 229. 
Var. 8. angustifolia ; leaves linear-oblong, linear-cuneiform or sub- 
lanceolate ; branches leafy, longish and somewhat virgate. M. spinosa, 
E.& Z,1230. M. albiflora, E. & Z.! 231. M. montana, E. § Z.! 232. 
M. glawa, HE. & Z.! No. 233. Drege, No, 7224, a, ¢, and 7255. 
Var. y. scoparia; nearly leafless, or with a few oval-oblong, obtuse 
or subacute leaves ; branches long and virgate, slender and deeply fur- 
rowed, M. scoparia, H..d Z.! 235. Drege, 7254, 5, 7256, ¢ Muraltia, 
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7 Lise. Dry, stony places throughout the Colony. y- Clanwilliam, K, & Z.! (Herb Of ol Credle 
. eg 0.,.); : eae 0 =| 
A much anak’: ik furzelike, bush, 2~3 feet high, varying in the shape )*)*/ eee | 
‘* and abundance of its leaves, and in the of its flowers, which are either red or"! ~~. Gad 
white. The varieties above indicated pass one into the other. The most distinct... |... a 
looking is -y., which is more slender than the others and often nearly leafless ; but, _- fe 
sometimes leafy. Mf. desertorum, E. & Z.! is Muraltia juniperifolia, DC.) “"<.~ “> a 
(non E.& Z.). : Sr ee rd id 
IIL MURALTIA. Neck. — 
Sepals 5, dry and membranous, subequal, the two lateral somewhat 
longer than the rest. Petals 3, united at base and attached to the sta- 
minal tube ; the lower one hood-shaped, with a two-lobed crest below 
the apex ; lateral petals oblong, free or cohering by their edges. Stamens 
8, untted into a split tube. Capsule membranous, compressed, with 4 
horns or tubercles at its upper angles ; rarely hornless. DC. Prod. 1. 
P- 335 
Small but rigid shrubs or undershrubs, peculiar to South Africa, with fascicled, or 
rarely scattered, rigid, mostly pungent-mucronate, very entire, narrow, subulate, = = 
linear, or rarely lanceolate or ovate small leaves ; and axillary, solitary, subsessile or 
