112 POLYGALE (Harv.) [Muraltia. 
A rigid shrub, a foot or more in height, more like a Mundiia than one of the pre- - 
sent genus. The leaves are distinctly petioled, 2 lines long, 1 line wide, very thick 
and blunt: they spring from tubercular cicatrices. The ovary is oblong, without 
horns or tubercles ; fruit unknown. 
48, M. crassifolia (Harv.) ; shrubby, much branched, diffuse, gla- 
brous, with angular branches ; leaves alternate, thick and rigid, oblongo- 
lanceolate, mucronulate, flat, midribbed, with rounded edges ; pedicels 
shorter than the leaves; sepals elliptic-oblong, obtuse, the ale twice as 
long as the rest; petals equalling the keel, linear-spathulate, obtuse; 
capsule . . .? Pol. polyphylla, LE. & Z. ! No. 185. (non DC.) 
Has. Summit of the Winterhoeks Berg, Tulbagh, Z. & Z./ (Herb. T.C.D., 
Hook., Sond.) 
A small but stout shrub, 6-12 inches high, spreading, densely covered with 
leathery leaves $ inch long and 1 line wide ; the shape varying from nearly linear to - 
lanceolate and elliptic-lanceolate. The whole plant is perfectly glabrous.— Distri- 
Se by Z. & Z. as “ Pol. polyphylla, DC.,” but does not agree with De Candolle’s 
agnosis, 
49. M. rigida (E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege) ; robust, woody, divaricately 
much branched, with glabrous, pungent branches ; leaves few and small, 
seattered, sessile, linear-oblong, flat on both sides, but. thick and fleshy, 
obtuse, with a minute point; pedicels shorter than the leaves; sepals 
elliptic-oblong, very obtuse, the ale much longer than the rest, petals 
longer than the keel, linear, channelled, obtuse; capsule oblong, pen- 
dulous, bidentate. 
Has. Kamiesberg, and between Pedroskloof and Leliefontein, Drege! (Herb. 
T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) d 
__A very scraggy, coarse, densely branched and rigid shrub ; the branches spreading 
at right angles. Leaves 2-3 lines long. Flowers pale, small. 
50. M. striata (DC., ex Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 559); erect, slender, with 
rod-like, angular and furrowed branches, glabrous or nearly so; leaves 
few and distant, scattered, erect, short, linear, obtuse, sub-mucronulate, 
channelled above, round-backed, glabrous; pedicels solitary or in pairs, 
cernuous, shorter than the leaves, twice as long as the minute bracts; 
sepals broadly elliptical, very obtuse, the al twice as long as the rest ; 
petals longer than the keel, linear, obtuse ; capsule pendulous, oblong- 
oval, sharply bidentate. M. brevicornu, E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege (an DC.#) 
M. viminea, Turcz. Anim. No. 2837. Pol. striata, Thunb. l. ¢. be 
_. Has. On the Cape Flats, Dr. Pa . Groenekloof & Dassenberg ; and 
a nny WL Langevalley, Drege 7 Siqvotaberg, Zeyher! (71). (Herb. T.C.D. 
_ A slender, tall, naked suffrutex, 1-2 fect hi ingly branched. Leaves 4-4 
inah Tong: ahd oo tar cog nde pram a patent. Flowers small 
and pale, axillary, or clustered in small, sub-umbellate fascicles at the ends of the 
Pra n ee rnis agrees very well with Thunberg’s description, ee plant of 
the neighbourhood of the Cape, is likely to have been found by early explorers. 
De C.’s M. brevicornu is either badly described, or is something different. 
51. M. leptorhiza (Turez. Anim. No. 2838) ; erect, slender, with rod- 
like, angular and furrowed, glabrous branches ; leaves scattered, distant, 
narrow-linear, mucronate, ke at above, with a narrow, medial furrow, 
erect, glabrous ; pedicels s s, twice as long as the minute 
