Muvaltia. | POLYGALEZ (Harv.) 107 
Has. Mountains near Swellendam, Z. & Z./ Pappe! Voormansbosch, Zeyher / 
Grahamstown, C. J. F. Bunbury! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A small, multifid, corymbose shrub, very thickly covered with leaves, and very 
hairy. Flowers conspicuous, brightly coloured, with an amply crested keel. This 
looks like M. phylicoides, but besides the different foliage, may always be distin- 
guished by the petals and capsule. E. & Z. confounded these plants in the speci- 
mens distributed to different herbaria. 
30. M. incompta (E. Mey !)! shrubby, divaricately much branched, 
the branches patently hairy ; leaves in sub-distant tufts, lanci-subu- 
late, and very narrow, semi-terete, hispid and ciliate with long hairs, 
pungent ; fl. sessile (small) ; sepals ovate-oblong, mucronate ; petals 
linear-oblong, acute or sub-acute ; capsule hispid, ovate, as long as its 
subulate horns. M. ciharis, E. § Z. | 206. (non D.C.) Drege, No. 7245 
(pro parte). : oe 
Has. Paarlberg & Dutoit’s Kloof, Drege / Mts. near aterfall, Tulbagh, Z. & Z. 
Pappe, (66.) (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) st = 
A much branched, slender, hairy or downy, small shrub, diffuse or peecentons, 
Tufts of leaves separate, at short intervals. Allied to M. tenwifolia & M. divaricata 
as well as to the species of the present group. It would be desirable to see more 
specimens. 
| 81. M. diffusa (Burch. Cat. 916, & 354) ; suffruticose, slender, difiuse, 
| or prostrate ; leaves sub-fasciculate or scattered, lanci-subulate or lanceo- 
late, flat, ribbed, patent, squarrose, taper-pointed, and sharply mucronate, 
downy or villous or tomentose ; fl, (minute) sessile ; sepals danceolate- 
ae acuminate, mucronate ; petals linear-oblong, obtuse ; capsule with four 
Bi long slender horns. DC. Prod. 1. p. 336. £. &Z. 221. M. micrantha, 
Steb/ 241, §& M. squarrosa, Sieb! 17 § 44. 
Has. On dry hills round Capetown, Wynberg, and Camps Bay ; common. Wit- \(ycl-luvid 
senberg, Zeyher / 68. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond., &c.) i he 
A widely spreading, much branched, nearly prostrate species, with subdistant Se / 63 
leaves, varying from broadly lanceolate to very narrow, almost subulate ; ing also 
varying at 
much in the pubescence. It resembles ©. tenuifolia in general habit, but differs in 
leaves and floral characters. A specimen from Thunberg (1774) in Herb. Holm. 
marked “ Pol. mixta,” belongs to this species. . Boe 
32. M. Zeyheri (Turcz. Animadv. No. 2814) 3 * branches pubescent ; 
leaves lane acute, mucronate, glabrous, or softly hairy on the lower 
side at the rib and margin, solitary or tufted, and then the outer leaves 
E smaller ; fl, sub-sessile ; petals half as long as the keel, gibbose at base.” 
® Of this plant I can say nothing further. — 
” (Herb. Alex.-Pr. T.C.D.)_ 
