# 10 POLYGALEZ (Harv.) [Vuraltia. 
nal specimen in Herb. Holm., with which others, probably from Dr. Thom, in Herb. 
Hooker, perfectly agree. The plant does not occur in any recent collection that I 
have seen. 
21. M. filiformis (Thunb. Fl Cap. p. 558); erect or ascending, 
shrubby, slender, many stemmed ; branches wirgate, downy or glabrous; 
leaves either solitary or with axillary tufts, very erect, straight and rigid, 
subulate, taper-pointed and pungent, channelled above, ribbed or keeled 
below, the younger ones fringed with woolly hairs ; fi. sessile ; sepals 
} lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate, acute or acuminate ; petals shorter than 
the amply lobed keel, broadly linear, obtuse ; capsules with subulate 
horns of its own length. #. § Z.! Nos, 215 and 216! M., linophylla 
and M. virgata, DC. Prod. p. 336. Pol. micrantha, Andr, Bot. Rep. t.- 
424. Drege, No. 7230, 7231. 
A Av eae Has. Rocky or sandy situations, among shrubs. Very common on the Cape Flats, 
wo! and throughout the Cape district. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.). 
4 WL When growing in moist, sandy places, this little shrub is erect and rod-like, 1-2 
bh feet high, with many simple stems, and then answers to M. virgata, Burch. ; when 
found in dry, stony places it is shorter, more diffuse and branching, and often scrubby, 
and then seems to be M.linophylla, Burch. DC. points to a distinction in the sepals ; 
but I find no fixed limits to this character in the very numerous and varied specimens 
I have examined. WM. virgata, E.d& Z.} is quite different, and appears to be a state 
of M. alopecuroides, in which the filiform leaves are in excess; almost uniting that — 
species with M. macroceras. 
*** Group 3. DiversiroLia. Leaves of two forms on the same stem 
or branch ; the lower leaves narrow, linear or subulate ; the upper at 
least (and especially those subtending the flowers), broader, more or less 
lanceolate, and mid-ribbed. (Sp. 22-28). — j 
22, M. mixta (Linn.) ; robust, virgate, with downy branches ; leaves 
fascicled, and densely imbricated, the lower ones linear, the rest lineart- 
clavate or spathulate, attenuate at base, mucronate, flat above, somewhat 
keeled below, glabrous ; fl. sessile ; calyx not one-third of corolla ; sepals 
elliptical, obtuse, scarcely mucronulate ; petals nearly as long as keel, 
broadly linear, obtuse ; capsule glabrous, oblong, with subulate horns of 
its own length. £. dé Z.! No.207. DC. Prod. 1. p. 336.? MM. depressa, 
L. Mey.! (non Burch. ). mS ae 
Has. Cape Flats, near Duicker’s Valley, . § Z./ Rondebosch, Drege/ near Kuyl's 
. et a la sarge Rags fo I ch ith sod Hess, Rousely 
clothed wi 5 pene asset 80 densely as to hide the branches. The denuded 
branches are covered with raised tubercles. The leaves, when dry, are of a pale, 
Pe aren. _ Very closely allied to M. alopecuroi M. Kraussiana, Meisn. in 
_ Hook., Lond. Journ., vol. 1. p. 473, which I have not : 
with virgate, minutely downy branches 
