Plants of the Punjab. 2.88 
Herss, Erect, with ALTERNATE ExstTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Polygala 
crotalarioides, 
PoOLYGALACEA. 
eBay 120d. 
Himalaya, 
4-7,000 ft., 
east of the Ravi. 
Simla (Collett). 
Polygala abyssinica, 
POLYGALACEA. 
HDs bad. 202: 
Himalaya, 
3-8,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Matiana, Multan 
(Hidgeworth). 
Polygala leptalea, 
POLYGALACEA. 
Hebe Tr, 202; 
Himalaya, 
9-5,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Ploygala 
Hohenhackeriana, 
PoLYGALACER. 
Be lear 202: 
The Plains west of 
the Jhelum to 
8,500 ft. in 
Waziristan 
(Stewart). 
Attock (Vicary). 
Baluchistan 
(Stocks). 
Lear Marains EntTIre#. 
PETALS UNITED. 
perennial, densely hairy, rootstock woody, often 
tuberous, stems short, thick, sometimes reclining, 
leaves 3-2 in., ovate or oblong-ovate, tip rounded with 
or without an abrupt point, with few scattered hairs, 
flowers 4-4 in. long, purple, very shortly stalked in very 
short, dense-flowered, rarely terminal racemes, bracts 
minute, awl-shaped, sepals persistent, inner wing sepals 
ovate with a broad tip, twice as long as the capsule, keel 
petal crested, capsule heart-shaped, broader than long, 
fringed with bristles, seeds with 2 small appendages; 
otherwise like the last species. 
small to medium size, smooth, branches many, 
leaves $-$ in., narrow linear, long-pointed, almost sessile, 
flowers } in. long, pink on one side of long terminal slender 
loose-flowered racemes 2-6 in. long, bracts ovate, soon 
falling off, wing sepals yellowish-green, capsule narrowly 
winged near the top, seeds densely hairy, not appendaged ; 
otherwise like the last species. 
very much like the last species, but the stem deeply 
furrowed, the lower leaves often oblong-lanceolate, ra- 
cemes 1-2 in., dense-flowered, flowers smaller, seeds silky. 
very small, with grey hairs or velvety, stems and 
branches many from a perennial stock, leaves 4-2 in., 
erey hairy, thin, smooth, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate- 
ovate with a broad tip, blunt or nearly short-pointed, 
flowers } in., drooping on short stalks in nearly sessile 
dense-flowered terminal racemes 4-4 in. long, bracts 
small, sepals with broad thin margins, upper outer one 
much the largest, linear-ovate with a broad tip, 2 lateral 
very small, oblong, blunt, wings white, capsule 4 in., cir- 
cular, smooth with a broad membranous wing, seeds densely 
silky with 2 appendages; otherwise like the last species. 
