470 FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
In solo argillaceo-arenoso prope flum. Knysna, distr. 
George (IV. c. b.) Jan. 1839. Krauss n. 905. 
A small plant, approaching in habit rather to P. vulgaris, 
than to any of the above Cape species. Upto theinflorescence, 
the branches are beset with semipatentleaves of 4-7 lines 
in length (i. e. a little longer than the internodia), 1-3 lines in 
breadth, the lowest being the broadest but shortest, the 
uppermost the narrowest, but equal in length to those of 
the middle part of the branches; their hairs, especially on 
the margin, are about one line long, very thin and soft, and 
rather copious. Racemes quite simple, 3-14 inches long, 
bracts deciduous, flowers greenish, scarcely larger than iho 
of P. amara; pedicels very short, equalling the outer sepals ; 
alee about twice as long (14-2 lines, by 1 line of breadth) with 
three green veins; upper petals obtuse, as long as the carina, 
which is shorter than the ale, and terminates in a short- 
fringed crista, composed of a few pale purplish filaments ; 
capsule almost as long as the ale, nearly as broad as long, 
slightly emarginate, without a membranaceous border, gla- 
brous and obsoletely reticulated; seeds brown, thinly 
covered with short hairs, and crowned with a small, obtuse, 
and naked caruncula. 
17. Mundia spinosa, DC. prodr. 1. p. 338.—In arenosis 
planitiei Capensis (III. E. b.) Jun. 1838.—This species 
appears to be very variable, (especially with regard to the 
leaves, which, in Drége’s specimens for instance, are much 
broader,) unless it has been confounded with several essen- 
tially different plants, of which the distinctive characters 
have not yet been sufficiently studied. The Polygala spinosa, 
of Lamarck's Herbarium, of which we possess a specimen 
from our friend Prof. ee is identical with the plant 
gathered by Dr. Kraus 
18. Muraltia* Heisteria, DC. prodr. 1. p. 335, n. 1.— 
* Every botanist who tries the experiment will, we are sure, declare the 
determination of the species of this genus a very difficult, and often an almost 
desperate task, owing mot only to their great uniformity of habit, but still 
