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plants. Leaves radical, petioled. Scape with one sessile foliaceous bractea 
or rarely naked, dilated immediately under the flower. 
124. (1) P. mysorensis (Heyne:) leaves cordate, somewhat reniform, lobes 
overlapping: bractea cordate embracing the scape: sepals broadly oval, a half 
longer than the incrassated part of the peduncle: petals oval-oblong, entire 
or slightly toothed on the margin, unguieulate, about 24 times longer than 
the sepals: sterile stamens about half the length of the fertile, cleft upwards 
into 3 thickish oblong obtuse segments or lobes: stigmas 3.—Wail.! L. n. 
3754.—Mysore ; Heyne. 
A small species with somewhat the habit of the arctic P. Kotzebuei, but 
with characters very different: it is perhaps too closely allied to P. pusilla, 
Wall. The sterile stamens resemble those of P. fimbriata. 
125. (2) P. Wightiana (Wall.:) leaves broadly cordate-ovate or slightly 
reniform ; sinus slightly rounded: bractea like the leaves, embracing the 
Scape: petals obovate-oblong, their lower half having the margin cut into 
numerous slender linear simple or forked segments resembling a fringe ; un- 
guis very short, broad and cuneate : sterile stamens about as long as the fer- 
tile, cleft upwards into 3-5 stout horn-like segments that are glandular at the 
point.—Wall.! L. n. 3755 ; Wight ! eat. n. 116. i 
Flowers large, Perhaps this and P. ornata, Wall. ! L. n. 1247, may prove 
the same: in the latter, the petals have a much longer unguis which is nearly 
linear, and the lower part of their margin is cut into numerous pinnatifid seg- 
ments, the divisions of which are long and capillary. Both are very closely 
fe to P. fimbriata of Banks, in which also the margin is cut and not cilia- 
ed. 
:* ORDER XVIL—POLYGALEZE. Juss. 
Sepals 5, irregular, distinet; 3 exterior smaller, of which one is su- 
perior and two inferior; 2 interior (ale) usually petaloid, lateral : 
?slivation imbricative, Petals hypogynous, unequal, usually 3, of 
Which one (carina) is inferior and larger than the rest, while the others 
alternate with the upper and lateral sepals ; sometimes there are 5, the 
two additional, between the lateral and lower sepals, being then gene- 
rally minute, or very rarely large: carina sometimes entire, and then 
naked or crested; or sometimes 3-lobed, without a crest. Stamens 
hypogynous, 8, unequal, ascending, some or all of them united with 
the claws of the petals: anthers l-celled, opening by a terminal pore, 
or very rarely by a longitudinal cleft. Ovarium free, compressed, 
formed of two united carpels, one anterior, the other posterior ; usually 
2-celled with the placentz in the axis, or occasionally unilocular by the 
Suppression of the posterior cell; rarely l-celled with two opposite 
Parietal placente: ovules solitary, or (very rarely) 2-6 in each carpel. 
Style simple, curved. Fruit loculicidal, or sometimes indehiscent. 
8 with a crustaceous outer integument. Albumen usually copious 
and fleshy, rarely none or reduced to a thin gelatinous plate. Embryo 
Straight, or very slightly curved: radicle next the hilum.— Leaves 
Without stipules. Flowers usually racemose. Pedicels with 3 bracteoles 
at their base. 
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