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eed This plant has been much misunderstood. I describe from Thunbery’s origi- Be ee 
Muraltia.| POLYGALEZ (Harv.) 103 
distant fascicles, linear-subulate, very narrow, squarrose or recurved, semi- 
terete, mucronate, glabrescent ; fl, (small) sessile or sub-sessile ; sepals 
not half the length of corolla, oblong, acute, mucronate ; petals nearly 
as long as keel, linear, obtuse or subacute ; capsule shorter than the 
slender horns. 
Var. a. major; flowers quite sessile ; petals much shorter than the 
keel and very obtuse. Jf. micrantha, HE. d Z.! 222. Pappe, 51. 
Var. 8, intermedia; flowers on short stalks ; petals nearly equal- 
ling the keel, obtuse or subacute. Sparmann! in Herb. Hol. 
Var. y. minor; flowers subsessile and smaller; petals nearly as long 
as keel, taper-pointed ; whole plant very slender. J. tenuifolia, E. & Z.! 
No,219. Drege, No, 7253. Pappe, 50. 
Has. Var. a, Mountains near Zonderende R., Sw., F. & Z./ Var. y. same loca- 
lity ; and near Gnadendahl, 2.4 Z./ Drege/ Var. B.C.B.8., Sparmann/ (Herb. T.C.D., 
Holm., Sond., Benth.). 
Closely resembling M. diffusa in habit and in the size of the flower ; but the leaves 
are more decidedly tufted, very much more slender, without obvious midrib, but 
concave and bluntly keeled, and their points are often hooked backwards. The sepals 
are less acuminate, and the pubescence less copious. The three varieties above noted 
chiefly differ in size; var. 8. (which is founded on an old specimen in Herb. Holm.) 
is larger and stouter than either a ory; but in character approaches nearest to y, in 
aspect to a. 
19, M. divaricata (E. & Z.! No. 223) ; suffruticose, slender, procum- 
bent, pubescent ; leaves in sub-distant fascicles, patent, linear-filiform, 
terete, fleshy, and somewhat narrowed towards the base, mucronate, the 
younger ones downy ; fl. (small) sessile ; sepals elliptical, mucronate ; 
petals broadly linear, upturned, sub-acute ; capsule shorter than the 
slender horns. WM, ericefolia, E. &. Z.! 224. Drege, 7237 ! 
Var. 8. obtusifolia ; leaves obtuse or mucronulate, linear-clavate. 
M, laxa, E. & Z.! 228 (non DC.). pian i jag 
Has. A i Waterfall, Tul E.& Z.1 Var. B.on 
Mountains ingle Ones pene em TODS Heck, Laas — 
A trailing plant, 1-2 feet long, with filiform, sub-simple branches, appressedly 
hairy when young, roughish or smoothish afterwards. Leaves thicker, more fleshy 
(nearly terete) than in M. tewuifolia, to which this is pets pao Ones: — 
very ample. JZ. 6 Mh. scarcely differs, t in I ig distinctl, 
ibe Foe and toe leaves, but on the same root mucronate and pointless leaves 
20. M. stipulacea yulacea (D.C.? Prod. 1. p. 3 36); suffruticose, slender, 
branched from the ay ; branches virgate, downy ; leaves distant, linear- 
subulate, patent, rigid, mucronate, flattish above, round-backed, rough- 
edged, the lowermost sub-fasciculate, the uppermost solitary ; fl. sessile ; 
sepals ovate-elliptical, acute ; petals as long as the keel, linear, sub- 
acute ; capsule with subulate horns of its own length. Pol, stipulacea, 
Linn, fide Thunb.! in Herb, Holm. Thunb. Cap. p. 558. 
Hab. Houtniqua, Thunberg! C.B.S., Thom? (Herb. Hook.! Holm.!) 
su 
Root thick and woody ; stems numerous, a foot long, » suk 
Leaves 3 inch long, very narrow, incurved or recurved, the lower ones with 2-3 small 
jectlery Weare: the upper solitary and sub-distant. Flowers le, nearly half as 
the leaf in oouat axil they are set. Calyx more than the of co- — 
