66 POLYGALE/K. 



attenuate to the petioles which are 1 em. long, dark above, somewhat 

 glaucous beneath, primary veins 4-5 on both sides, arcuate near the apex, 

 reaching the next upper ones. Racemes axillary near the apex or terminal, 

 5-6 cm. long, densely many-flowered, scarcely exceeding the leaves. Flowers 

 yellowish pedicellate, pedicels short, 2 mm. long. Sepals 5, outer ones 3, 

 inner ones 2, deciduous, the uppermost one of the outer sepals globose, larger, 

 rounded, saccate, 3 mm. long, 2-lower ones of the same series broadly rounded, 

 oblique at the base, 1^ mm. long ; 2-inner ones petaloid, oblique, oblong, 

 5|- mm. long. Petals connate, lateral ones very imbricate, 7 mm. long, rounded 

 at the apex, keels shortly cucullate, long cristate on the back, iiicrassate, bi- 

 saccate. Ovary glabrous shortly stipitate, disk broadly annular. Styles 

 dilate at the apex, appendiculate under the stigma. Capsules 5 mm. broad, 

 4 mm. long, membrauaceous, compressedly obreniformed or broadly orbicular, 

 emarginate, loculicidal on the margin. Seeds ovoid, 2 mm. long, pendulous, 

 pilose, strophiolate, strophioles 1.2 mm. long on each side. 



HAH. Taichu, Kashigatani. 



Somewhat resembles P. IVatters'd HANCE in Jourii. Bot. (1881) p. 209 ; 

 but differs from it in having ob-reuiforined fruits, much smaller flowers, 

 divided crests, and in many other points. 



Poly gala Tatarinowii REG.; FRANCHET PI. David, p. 45; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 62 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 34. 

 HAB. Girau, Horisha. 

 DISTRIB. Northern China and Japan. 



Poly gala japonica HOUTT. ; DC. Prodi. I. p. 324 ; BAKER et S. 

 MOORE in Joimi. Linn. Soc. XVII. p. 379 ; FRANCHET PI. David, p. 45 ; 

 FRANCH. et SAVAT. Euum. PI. .Tap. I. p. 45 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 

 18; ITO et MATSUM. Tent. Fl. Lutch. p. 311; PALIBIX Couspect. Fl. Korere 

 I. p. 37 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Euum. PI. Formos. p. 34 ; HAYATA Fl. Mont. 

 Formos. p. 55. 



Poly gala slbirica LINN. Sp. PL ed-2 p. 987; DC. Proelr I. p. 324; A. 

 W. BENN in Joum. Bot. (1878) p. 277 ; HANCE in " Joum Bot. (1882) p. 

 257 "; FORBES et HEMST, Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 61. 



