A NOTE ON CEKTAIN SPECIES OF POLYGALA. 47 



Text fig. 2. Fig. B. p. 46 a branch. Text Fig. 2. 1. flower-buds, 

 2. open flower, 3. petals and ovary, 4. ovary, 5. fruit, 6. fruit cut 

 open, 7. seed. 



This species is no doubt closely allied to Polygala chinensis L., 

 but differs from it in the following respects. The stems and leaves 

 are more pubescent than in Polygala chinensis L., the flowers are 

 smaller than those of the other, rose-purple and not yellow, the wing 

 sepals are pubescent and-' not glabrous, the capsules are oblong and 

 longer than broad and not rounded and broader than long as in 

 Polygala chinensis L., seeds are oblong and not broadly ovate oblong 

 and plumpy, strophiole is without any wing or rarely with minute 

 obscure wings on two of the arms, not with wings as in Polygala 

 chinensis L. 



These differences are sufficient to consider this a distinct species. 

 As the name Polygala arvensis Willd. is a synonym of Polygala 

 chinensis L., a new name should be given to this plant. Specimens 

 of this plant are being sent to Mr. Gamble and to Kew, and after 

 hearing from them this will be named. 



This plant appears to be the one described by Wight and Arnott 

 in their Prodromus as Polygala arvensis Willd. var> Y. and it is 

 figured in Kheede's Hort. Mai. Vol. 9 t. 61. 



3. Polygala bolbothrix Dunn. This is a freely branching annual 

 herb. Stems and branches are diffuse, prostrate and the whole plant 

 is covered with scattered bulbous-based hairs. Leaves are linear- 

 oblong to narrowly oblong linear, glabrous, obtuse, mucronate, vary- 

 ing in length from h to lj inches, margins with distant bulbous-based 



cilia, especially so on the lower half. Racemes are extra axillary, 



