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Phillips loll, 7G21 in Percy Sladen Memorial Expedition to the 

 Khamiesberg, Giftberg, and OliphanVs Paver Mountains, 1911. 



A sub-simple or branched herb, 20-34 cm. high. Branches 

 ribbed, pilose with simple hairs 2-3 mm. long. Leaves sessile, 

 3-9*2 cm. long, 2-6 mm. broad, flat, linear, subobtuse, entire, pilose. 

 Inflorescence in terminal or axillary racemes, 12-20-flowered, 

 elongated in fruit ; axis glabrous. Pedicels from 5 mm. long, 

 elongating in fruit up to 1*5 cm. long, pilose. Calyx- segments 

 1 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, hooded at the apex, pilose. Corolla 

 blue ; petals 8 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, obovate, obtuse, narrowed 

 at the base, margins subdentate, glabrous. Stamens all the same 

 length ; filaments 5 mm. long, linear, glabrous ; anthers 2 mm. long, 

 oblong, sagittate at the base. Ovary 4 - 5 mm. long, linear, glabrous ; 

 style 2 mm. long, terete, glabrous ; stigma capitate. Fruit 3-6 cm. 

 long, 1-1-5 mm. broad, linear, ovate at the apex, scantily pilose, very 

 rarely glabrous, bearing a number of glandular hairs on the swollen 

 ovate portion. 



Kew reports : " Heliophila, n. sp., near H.pilosa, but very distinct 

 from that and all others at Kew, by the peculiar manner in which 

 hairs are developed on the swollen apex of the (fruit E.P.P.) style." 



POLYGALACBAE. 



Muraltia Westi, Phillips, sp. now Hamuli pilosi, demum pubes- 

 centi. Folia 5-7 mm. longa, 1-3 mm. lata, spathulata, obovata vel 

 oblanceolata, apice mucronata recurvaque, glabra, ciliata. Segmenta 

 calyci 2 mm. longa, - 75 mm. lata, elliptico-lanceolata, apice acuta, 

 glabra, ciliata. Pctala 4-5-5 mm. longa, glabra. Stamina 1*5 mm. 

 longa. Ovarium 2 mm. longum, oblongum, supra pilosum ; stylus 

 2-5 mm. longus, linearis, glaber. 



Catkin Peak, Drakensberg Eange, 8,500-9,400 ft. W. C. West, in 

 Herb. Musei Austro-Afric, 4555. 



Branchlets terete, green, pilose with coarse stiff hairs, at length 

 becoming dark and pubescent. Leaves 5-7 mm. long, 1-3 mm. broad, 

 spathulate, obovate or oblanceolate, mucronate, recurved at the apex, 

 narrowed at the base, flat above, with a distinct midrib below, gla- 

 brous or almost so except for a few stiff hairs on the midrib, ciliate. 

 Flotvcrs pink, sessile in the axils of the leaves. Sepals 2 mm. long, 

 - 75 mm. broad, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, ciliate. Lateral 

 petals 4'5 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, linear, obtuse, glabrous ; lower 

 petal 5 mm. long, obovate, bifid at the apex, 2-crested ; crests 

 2-5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, broadly obovate, with crenate margins. 



