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38 a POLYGALEÆ. Porveara. 
3. p. 171; Wight! cat. n. 133. a—P. linearis, Heyne! mss.—P. linarifolia, 
Roth. nov. sp. p. 330 (not Willd.) 
Notwithstanding that Linnsus says that the flowers are not cristate, we 
believe this is his plant. P. thesioides, Wall.! L. n. 4170. b, c, d, (but not a 
nor e) approaches very closely to this, but has linear-oblong obtuse and more 
or less pubescent leaves. 
133. (8) P. Wightiana (Wall.:) annual, quite glabrous, and slightly glau- 
cous: stems twiggy, branched, diffuse, terete: leaves linear, tapering down- 
wards, acute with a long mucro: racemes opposite to the leaves, many- 
flowered, at length elongated and 3-4 times longer than the leaves: brac- 
teoles minute persistent: ale oblong, acüminated, somewhat foliaceous, a 
little longer than the capsule: carina cristate: capsule oblong, nearly even, 
scarcely margined, glabrous, not ciliated, emarginate.— Wall. / L. n. 4190; 
Wight! cat. n. 134. — Dindygul. EU 
Leaves exceedingly like those of a Thesium. 
134. (9) P. elongata (Klein:) annual: stems branched from the base, 
pubescent, terete below, angled upwards; lateral branches procumbent : 
leaves oblong-linear, tapering downwards, obtuse, mucronulate; glabrous, 
sprinkled with a few hairs on the midrib below, and on the margins: ra- 
cemes above the axils, or opposite to the leaves, many-flowered, at len 
elongated and 2—4 times longer than the leaves: bracteoles minute, persist- 
ent: alee oblong, acute, somewhat foliaceous, a little longer than the cap- 
sule: carina cristate: capsule roundish, oblique, slightly margined, glabrous, 
not ciliated, emarginate.— Kein ! in Willd. sp. 3. p. 879; DC. prod. 1. p. 332; 
Spr. syst. 3. p. 167 ; Wall.! L. n. 4168 ; Wight ! cat. n. 137. Mysore. 
135. (10) P. ciliata (Linn.:) annual: stems branched chiefly from the 
base, diffuse, terete below, angled upwards, with horizontal rigid hairs : leaves 
oblong, tapering downwards, obtuse, mucronate, glabrous, ciliated on their 
lower half with rigid hairs: racemes horizontally and rigidly hairy, at length 
elongated and twice as long as the leaves, funny -Howeted usually a little above 
the axils of the leaves : bracteoles minute, persistent: alse membranous-mar- 
gined, glabrous, ovate, acute, slightly longer than the capsule: carina cris- 
tate: capsule roundish, slightly oblique, not margined, glabrous, rigidly- 
ciliated, emarginate.—P. ramosa, Wight! in Wall. L. n. 4177.—«; larger ; 
leaves obovate-oblong.— Wight ! cat. n. 122.—P. ciliata, Linn. ; Willd. sp. 3. 
p.896; Spr. sp. 3. p. 171.—8$alomonia? ciliata, DC. prod. 1. p. 334.—5; smaller ; 
leaves linear-oblong.— Wight ! cat. n. 125.—P. prostrata, Willd. ; DC. prod, 1» 
p. 333 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 171.—P. arvensis, Rob. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 675. 
The hairs in this species arise from tubercles, which equally exist on the — 
edge of the capsule ; but this last p omini to be called toothed. Willdenow 
Rt NEG have neither of them observed the small but perfect crest to the 
136. (11) P. Heyneana (Wall.:) suffrutescent: branches procumbent, —— 
pubescent, terete below, angled upwards: leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, mu- - 
cronate, slightly pubescent, particularly beneath, somewhat reticulated with 
prominent veins : racemes lax, 5-8-flowered, twice the length of the leaves; 
above the axils or opposite to the leaves: braeteoles minute, lower ones soon 
deciduous: alee foliaceous, ovate acute, glabrous, about the length of the 
capsule: carina cristate: capsule roundish, nearly equal, margined and there 
pubescent, otherwise glabrous, emarginate.— Wall. L. n. 4184 ; Wight ! cat. 
n. 128, 129, 132.—P. venosa, Heyne. Neelgherries. à 
We have not seen Heyne's or Wallich's plant, but have no doubt about 
the reference. A specimen was formerly sent to Dr Wallich by Dr Wight, 
and, if taken up by him, is probably one of the states of his P. arvensis. 
A37. (12) P. Javana (DC. :) suffrutescent, all over softly vill r more | 
or less tomentose: branches diffuse, terete below, Sia RE: leaves 
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