Muraltia.] POLYGALE (Harv.) 109 
38. M. dumosa (DC. Prod. 1. 337 ; fide E. Mey !) ; robust, divari- 
cately much branched, with downy or glabrescent, often spine-tipped 
branches ; leaves fascicled, broadly linear, narrowed towards base, very 
obtuse or with a recurved mucron, thick and rigid, flat above, midribbed 
below, glabrous, the young ones downy ; fl. sessile ; sepals 3 of co- 
rolla, elliptical, obtuse or mucronulate ; petals nearly as long as the keel, 
linear, sub-acute ; ovary glabrous ; capsule with subulate horns. Drege 
7229. M. rubicunda, Turcz! M. stipulacea, E. & Z. No. 194. 
Has. Blauweberg, near Groenekloof ; on the Giftberg, and Witberg, 500oft. 
Drege! Lion’s Mt. near Cape Town, £. & Z./ Dr. Pappe (48) (Herb. T.C.D., 
Hook., Sond.) 
A rigid, coarse, scrubby bush with the habit of M. thymifolia, to which it is very 
nearly allied, and from which it differs in the more densely-tufted, narrower and 
more obtuse leaves; and in the smaller and blunter sepals. E. & Z.’s “Pol. 5. 
117. 11,” on which P. rubicunda Turcz/ is founded, seems to me identical with 
Drege’s plant. 
39. M. thymifolia (Thunb !) ; robust, divaricately branched, with 
pubescent, often spine-tipped branches ; leaves scattered or sub-fasci- 
culate, thick and rigid, ovate-oblong or ovato-lanceolate, or lanceolate, 
flat, midribbed, acute, with a short pungent mucro, rough-edged, the 
younger ones downy ; fl. sessile ; sepals ovato-lanceolate, acute and 
mucronate ; petals as long as the keel, broadly linear, obtuse ; capsule 
as long as the broadly subulate horns. 2£.&Z. / No. 193, also M. ser- 
pylloides, FE. § Z! 190 (non DC.) M. brevifolia, DC. Prod. 1. p.335. 
(non BE. & Z.!) Pol. thymifolia, Thunb. ! Cap. p. 557. 
Var. 8. aspera ; leaves strigoso-pubescent, scabrid. JM. aspera, Lehm.! 
im E § Z.! E. M. No. 192. 
Has. Dry hills round Cape Town, F.4d Z./ Drege! Dr. Pappe! &c., extending 
northwards to Saldanha Bay. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A very rigid, spreading shrub, 1-2 feet high. Leaves commonly thinly scattered, 
oar ojulia, "Ts xb cosisia to oeeol jeosins resign ses ines 
i efolva, unb, 3 a 
M. iogtaden ‘DC. The common or normal state has been distributed by E & Z. as 
‘* M. serpylloides.” Their M. thymifolia is a more slender variety. M. aspera 
Lehm./ according to the original specimen in Herb. Eckl., differs merely in being 
rougher and more hairy. ~ ee 
40. M. obovata (DC. prod. 1. p. 337.) ; robust, shrubby, rigid, diva- 
ricately much branched, glabrous; leaves approximate, solitary or sub- 
fascicled, obovate, thick and fleshy, flat, obtuse, with a minute, reflexed 
point ; fl. sessile ; sepals ovate, acute ; petals as long as keel, linear, sub- 
acute ; capsule as long as the subulate horns. M. brevifolia, E.&Z.! 225. 
(non DC.) 3 
Has. Sandy places near Saldanha Bay, Z.¢ Z./ Between S. Helena Bay and 
Oliphant’s River, Drege/ (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A small, but mont and Vee) ee glabrous on all parts except 
the very young leaves and iy which are eererety Soy, Leaves $ 
inch long, 1-1} lines wide, very blunt. Flowers resembling of M. thymifolia, — 
to which species this is nearly allied. 
41. M. reticulata (Harv.) ; shrubby, de vinsed” divastoualy 1aiidl es 
(Harv.) y, dep : es 
branched, with downy, often spine-tipped branches ; leaves scattered — 
or tufted, broadly obovate or elliptical, flat, pubescent and ciliate, mid- a 
