Muraltia.] POLYGALE® (Harv.) 97 
Lower leaves lax, linear ; upperimbricate, lanceolate. 
Caps. with filiform horns... ... ... (24) alopecuroides, 
** Low growing or diffuse shrubs, hairy and ciliate ; Teaves 
full green, squarrose. 
Capsule hornless ... .. ses eae vee ts ese (25) anthospormifolia. 
Capsule with slender horns : 
tufts of leaves — crowded ; leaves squarrose, 
straight-pointed .. (26) phylicoides. 
ee joe set : upper leaves strongly hooked at 
(27) Candollei. 
™ Deiat but “robust, divaricately much ‘branched; 
leaves glabrescent, dotted ... ... «. (28) Pappeana. 
D. Lancifoliz. Leaves aiiitinsity taper much to the base ; in out- 
line either lanceolate, ovato-lanceolate, obovate, or clavate (29-41). 
* Leaves lanci-subulate, lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate. 
Branches hispid ; leaves ciliate with long white hairs : 
Leaves lanci-subulate, crowded. Capsule hornless (29) ciliaris. 
Leaves lanci-subulate, laxly set. Capsule horned (30) incompta. 
Leaves lanceolate, thin and flat, midribbed ... ... (34) pilosa. 
Branches downy or glabrescent ; leaves softly hairy or 
quite glabrous. 
A trailing, slender, villous or tomentose undershrub (31) diffusa. 
A slender, glabrous, erect, tufted suffrutex... ... (35) lancifolia. 
Robust, diffusely branched ; leaves scattered, linear- 
lancevlate rie (36) Dregei. 
Robust, divaricate ; leaves ovato-lanceolate or ovate 
oblong ehh, Sle (39) thymifolia. 
** Leaves linear-clavate, or r obovate, ‘blunt, mincrontlate. 
Leaves softly downy or velvety with short laze 
cence. (33) pubescens. 
Leaves glabrous or r nearly tee , 
Leaves clavate, subterete, punctulate ... ... ... (37) depressa. 3 
Leaves broadly linear, flattish, midribbed ... ... (38) dumosa. & 
Leaves obovate, flat, thick and fleshy (40) obovata. 
Leaves ciliate, midribbed and veiny, beoadiy obovate (41) reticulata. 
Sub-genus 2. Pstnocuapus. Flowers manifestly oe 7 very 
unequal. Leaves scattered. 
E. Acutifoliz, Leaves acute ; either subulate, linear, lanceolate or 
ovate (42-46). 
A robust, much branched, rigid shrub... ...... (42) juniperifolia. 
Suffruticose, diffuse ; neti er keeled ... ... (43) pauciflora. 
Suffruticose, diffuse ; leaves flat, ribbed game sharply ppiges 
Leaves cordate-acuminate, three-nerved ... (44) trinervia. =“ 
Leaves linear-acuminate, three-nerved ... ... ... a} Beiliana. 
Leaves linear, acute, one-nerved ... ... ... «.. (46) angulosa. 
F, Obtusifoliz. Leaves blunt, or (at least) not pungent. (47-51). 
Leaves oval or subrotund, convex, petiolate ... ... (47) carnosa, 
Leaves .oblongo-lanceolate, flat, ribbed, sessile ... (48) crassifolia, 
Leaves linear or linear oblong. 
Divaricately much branched, robust and woody... (49) rigida. 
Slender, virgate, suffruticose ; leaves channelled... (50) striata. q 
Slender, virgate ; leaves subacute, furrowed above (51) leptorhiza. 
_. Sub-genus 1. Evmurartia. Flowers sessile, or on minute 
: shorter than the subtending bracts. Sepals of nearly equal th 
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