* 
| Beyher | (Herb. T.C.D., Hook, Sond.) 
108 POLYGALEZ (Harv.) [ Muraltia. 
downy, and well covered with softly downy leaves. Flowers pale flesh-coloured, ex- 
cept the top of keel, which is dark purple. Our specimens seem to agree well with 
De Candolle’s short diagnosis. 
34. M. pilosa (DC. Prod. 1. p. 337 ?) ; branches hispido-pubescent ; — 
leaves fascicled, densely set, lanceolate, attenuate-mucronate, rigid, thin & 
flat, midribbed, ciliate on margin and midrib, with long white hairs ; fl. ses- 
sile ; sepals } of corolla, narrow-oblong, acute and mucronate, ciliolate ; 
petals shorter than keel, broadly linear, obtuse or emarginate ; ovary 
villous, horned ; capsule. ...% M. pilosa. EH. Mey. in Herb. Drege! 
Pol. pilosa, Poir ? 
Has. Caffraria, at the Omsamwabo, 1-2000 ft., Drege. (Herb. Benth.) 
Of this I have seen but a single branch, in Herb. Bentham. It is nearly related to 
our M. lancifolia, but has the pubescence of M. serpylloides. 
35. M. lancifolia (Harv.) ; root woody ; stems numerous, slender, suf- 
fruticose; the younger ones minutely pubescent ; leaves fascicled, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, pungent, thin and flat, midribbed, rough-edged, gla- 
brous ; fl. sub-sessile, sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate ; petals shorter 
than keel, broadly linear, obtuse or emarginate ; ovary glabrous, horned ; 
CADMHG.4 5. 1 M. conferta, Hochst. ! Pl. Kraus. 253. M. tenuifolia, 
Meisn. in Hook, Lond. Jour. \. p. 474- 
Has. Port Natal, on the Tafelberg, Krauss / Sanderson! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook.) 
Root thick and woody, throwing up many tufted stems of unknown length. The 
specimens seen appear to have been burned-over the previous year, and therefore 
are probably not characteristic of the ordinary plant. The leaves are of thinner 
substance than in most, strongly ribbed on both surfaces and veiny when dry. 
36. M. Dregei (Harv.) ; Shrubby, diffusely much branched, with gla- 
brous or scaberulous branches ; leaves scattered, patent, linear-lanceo- 
late, acute and mucronulate, flat, midribbed, rough-edged ; fi. sessile ; 
sepals 4 of corolla, ovate-oblong, mucronate, ribbed, ciliolate ; petals 
linear-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, shorter than the keel; ovary gla- 
brous, horned ; capsule. ....% M. laxa, EH. Mey. in Herb. Drege 
(non DC.) 
Has. Between Groenekloof and Saldanha Bay, under sooft. Drege/ (Herb. 
T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A procumbent or straggling bush with thickly set, but not fascicled leaves, §-7 
inch long and a line wide, tapering to both ends. It is allied to M. thymifolia, but 
the leaves are much longer and narrower and the whole plant glabrous. 
37. M. depressa (Burch ! Cat. No. 6264.) ; shrubby, depressed, densely 
branched, with satay downy or glabrous branches ; leaves tufted, 
_ Short, dinear-clavate, tapering to the base, obtuse, mucronulate, fleshy, sub- 
terete, punctulate, glabrous or slightly downy ; fl. sessile ; sepals ellip- 
tic-oblong or lanceolate, mucronulate ; petals broadly subulate, sub- 
acute, scarcely equalling the keel ; ovary glabrous, tubercled ; capsule 
-+++.4 DC. Prod. x. p. 336. Zeyher, 1945. 
Has. 0.B.S., Burchell! Calcareous spots, between Zwartkops and Koega Rivers, 
markably obtuse ; the younger ones minutel 
convex at both sides. “Fl. small and pale. Zeyher’s 
than Burchell’s, with longer leaves and_blunter sepa 
