Muraltia.] POLYGALE (Harv.) 101 
figure, above quoted, well represents our plant, which is probably the M. stipulacea 
of many gardens and herbaria ; but is quite different from the plant so named by 
Thunberg. 
11. M. calycina (Harv.) ; robust, with woolly branches ; leaves fas- 
cicled, linear, very obtuse, thick and fleshy, concave above, keeled below, 
thinly hairy and ciliate, the young ones woolly, pointless, the primary 
leaf broader than the rest ; fl. subsessile ; calyx nearly as long as the 
corolla, coloured ; sepals broadly ovato-lanceolate, acute or acuminate ; 
petals shorter than the keel, linear, obtuse, flat ; ovary hispid, horned ; 
capsule sees ? Drege, No. 7228! 
Has, Between Cape L’Aguillas and Potberg, on limestone hills, 500 feet. Drege/ 
(Herb. Sond.!). 
A rigid, woody, branching shrub, woolly in the younger parts. Leaves, many in 
each tuft, the subtending one shorter and broader than the rest ; all fringed with 
woolly hairs and more or less pubescent. Calyces remarkably long, and bright 
purple or pink, Flowers deep purple. Apparently a well-marked species, 
12. M. conferta (DC. ? Prod. 1. p. 335); robust, densely branched ; 
branches downy ; leaves tufted, crowded, short, patent or recurved, oblong- 
linear or somewhat lanceolate, thick and rigid, mucronate, concave above, 
_ keeled below, rough at the edge, glabrous ; fl. sessile ; sepals scarcely 
half as long as corolla, elliptic-oblong, acute or sub-acute ; petals rather 
shorter than the keel, broadly linear, obtusely deltoid or narrowed at 
point ; capsule shorter than the slender horns. WM. conferta, EL. & Z. ! 
Wo, 211 ; and M. Burmanni. E. & Z.! 191. Pappe ! (49 & 38). 
Var. 8. gracilis; branches more slender and virgate ; fascicles of 
leaves sub-distant ; leaves bluntly keeled ; flowers bright purple. Jf. 
ericeefolia, Pappe, No. 46. 
Har. Brede River, Swell., and at Saldanha Bay, #. & Z./ Swellendam, Thom / 
Mouth of Berg River and Pot River, Dr. Pappe/ B. on the Cape Flats, Dr. Pappe! 
(Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
A strong-growing, mueh branched, erect shrub, 1-2 feet high, more or less densely 
leafy. Leaves varying in shape from nearly linear to oblong-lanceolate, but never 
much narrowed at base, 2-3, rarely 4 lines long, flattish or hollow above. MJ. Bur- 
manni, E.§ Z. and Pappe (49) has longer, more patent, and more exactly linear and 
ess crowded leaves. Our var. 8. is much more slender than usual, and with more 
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distant leaves, and almost intermediate with M, divaricata in appearance ; but ita 
essential characters seem to bring it under our species. I am quite ignorant whether 
ours be the plant of D’C., which I only know by his brief description. 
13, M. acipetala (Harv.) ; suffruticose, diffuse, with filiform, hairy 
branches ; leaves fascicled, short, linear, pungent-mucronate, thick and 
hard, channelled above, round backed, glabrous, with downy edges ; fl. 
sessile ; sepals oblong, subacute ; petals shorter than the amply-lobed 
keel, subulate-attenuate, tapering to a sharp point; capsule glabrous, as 
long as the broadly-subulate horns. 5 
Han. Roadsides near the path leading up Table Mt., Magillivray/ Simon's Bay, Que.) | 
Cc. Wright ! (A Ms Hook., T.C.D.). : pee ee ble ye: 
A small, procumbent, many stemmed undershrub, with sub-simple branches and 
short leaves. Its chief character is found in the very acute, taper-pointed lateral 
 -14. MW lon gi icuspis (Turez., animadv, No. 2823); shr 
