8o Polygalacecs. {Polygala. 



globular, smooth, nearly covered with a fleshy aril, yellowish, 

 the top black, shining. 



Montane zone, from 7000 down to 4000 ft. ; rather common. Pedum- 

 talagala ; Elk Plains ; Hunasgiriya ; near Badulla. Fl. July-November ; 

 golden-yellow. 



Occurs in the mountains of India, Malaya, and S. China. 



A graceful little tree, with much the habit of a Leguminosa. 



2. P. javana, DC. Prod. i. 327 (1824). Tilo-g-uru, S. 

 Thw. Enum. 22. C. P. 184. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 201. 



Semi-shrubby, 1-3 ft. high, with long, divaricate, wiry, 

 pubescent branches ; 1. numerous, crowded, J-i in., sessile or 

 nearly so, obovate-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, pubescent above, 

 finely stellate-hairy beneath ; fl. in extra-axillary, hairy 

 racemes, I-3 in. long, ped. very slender, hairy, bracts 3 to- 

 gether, small, ovate, acuminate, persistent ; sep. hairy, wings 

 membranous, triangular-ovate, much veined ; capsule much 

 flattened, ciliate on edge, keeled, shorter than the wings ; 

 seeds hairy. 



Low country, principally in the dry districts ; rather common. 

 Karativu, W. Coast ; Vavuniya Vilankulam ; Mannar ; Jaffna ; Balan- 

 goda ; Maturata ; Galagama ; Bibile. Fl. all the year ; yellow, the 

 crest purple. 



Also in Peninsular India and in Java. 



3. P. leptalea, DC. Prod. i. 325 (1824). 

 Thw. Enum. 22. C. P. 3550. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 202. 



Perennial, rootstock woody, sending up numerous, erect, 

 very stiff, slightly branched, angular, glabrous stems ; 1.' very 

 few, erect, sessile, linear, i-i^ in., acuminate, glabrous ; fl. 

 small, drooping, secund, in an erect, terminal, lax, spicate 

 raceme 3 or 4 in. long, ped. very short, readily disarticulating, 

 slender, curved, bracts long, setaceous, very soon falling ; 

 wings membranous, oval-oblong ; capsule small, much flattened, 

 rotundate, transparent, much shorter than wings. 



Dry low country, amongst long grass ; very rare. Confined to the 

 grassy country in the north part of Uva and adjacent part of Central 

 Province. Medamahanuwara ; about Nilgalla abundant. Fl. Jan.- 

 March ; pink, the crest darker. 



Also in Northern India, the Nilgiris, and Burma, and in tropical 

 Australia. 



4. P. g-Iaucoides, L. Sp.Pl. 705 (1753). 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 270. Moon Cat. 51. P. atvensis, Willd., var. a. Thw, 

 Enum. 400. C. P. 715. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 203. 



