48 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
Two have been 
The last, having been discovered 
or the first time in 1835, the genus has not yet found its way into our cata- 
have availed myself of the present op- 
portunity of making it known. The species of Polvgols here represented, was selected on 
under the supposition that it is a new 
species. Qn this last point however I have still some doubts 
» not but that my plant appears 
more distinct from P. persecariefolia as figured by Wallich (Pla 
appendages hanging like flaps, nearly the whole length of the 
which a number of sufficiently 
interior sepals ; its 5 sepals being all near] 
filaments united their whole length; and ] 
re are in pl n having symmetrical fone 
- Here | ; ‘ 
base into one, there are 5 petals, corr _ Here in place of three petals firmly united at t 
: nere hig 7 doubted, whether to cancia -leav 
play of one of Roxburgh’s Species, or distinct from both; the erg a think the more 
Porrect view ; partly on account of the difference of @Ppearance of this plant, but much more 
