110. POLYGALE& (Harv.) [ Mwraltia. 
ribbed and veiny, with a minute, reflexed point ; fl. (minute) sessile ; 
sepals linear-oblong, obtuse ; petals as long as the keel, linear, obtuse ; 
capsule broader than long, ciliolate, with short, flat, subulate horns. 
M. obovata, HL. § Z. ! 226. (non DC.) 
Has. Stony, mountain situations round Hercules’ fountain, Clanwilliam, £.¢ Z. / 
(Herb., T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A scrubby, seemingly prostrate shrub, with very patent branches, the older ones 
hardening at the points into rigid spines. On the principal branches the leaves are 
rosulate ; on the shoots scattered. They are } inch long, 1-14 lines wide, of thin 
substance and not rigid, conspicuously veiny. Flowers among the smallest in the 
genus, hidden under the broad leaves. e capsule is peculiarly broad, and the 
horns short. 
Sub-genus 2. Pstnocnapus. Flowers manifestly pedicellate, the pe- 
dicel always longer than the subtending bracts. Sepals unequal, the 
alee longest. Capsule either emarginate, or 4-tubercled at top, not 
horned. Leaves scattered. (42—51.) 
** Group 5. AcuTiFoLiz. Leaves acute ; subulate, linear, lanceo- 
late or ovate. (42-46.) 
42. M. juniperifolia (DC. Prod. 1. 336; non E. & Z.) shrubby, ro- 
bust, much branched, glabrous ; leaves scattered, short, subulate, trique- 
trous, flat above, keeled, patent, straight and rigid, pungent, rough- 
edged ; pedicel twice as long as the minute roundish bracts ; sepals 
elliptical, obtuse, the alse twice as long as the others ; petals as long as 
the keel, broadly linear, obtuse, recurved ; capsule ovate, emarginate, 
hornless. M. Sprengeliodes, Burch. ! Cat. 4957. Mundia desertorum, 
E. § Z. 1 No. 234. . 
Has. South Africa, Masson? in Herb. Banks, Desert places in the Langekloof 
and Zwarteberg, E. & Z./ (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A very densely branched and rigid shrub, 6-12-15 inches high, nearly glabrous. 
Leaves t inch long, very hard and sharp. It is strange that E. & Z., whose spe 
cimens are plentifully in fruit, should have mistaken this well-marked species for a 
Mundtia. I have compared an authentic specimen of Burch. 4957, with the original 
from Masson in Herb, Banks, and can detect no specific difference. 
