XT. POLTGALACE.5. 61 



Wiugs herbaceous, oblique, ovate-oblong, acuminate, with narrow, membra- 

 nous margins ciliate towards the base, longer than the capsule. Capsules 

 didymous, orbicular-oblong, strongly ciUate, obliquely obcordate at the 

 apex, narrowly margined. Seeds hairy ; strophiole glabrous or nearly so, 

 rounded at the apex, furnished with 3 membranous basal appendages. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 1, p. 204 ; Chodat, Monogr. Polygal. part 2, p. 3S5, t. 29, figs. 45- 

 46 ; Woodr. in Joum. Bomb. Nat. v. 1 1 ( 1 897) p. 124 ; Watt, Diet. Eeon. 

 Prod. V. 6, part 1, p. 315. Po{i/r/aJ t arvensis, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3, p. 876 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 11 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 12. Pohjgala RotJiiana, W. & A.> 

 Prodr. p. 37; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 13.— Flowers : Oct.-Mar. Verx. 

 Phutdni. 



Tolerably common throughout the Presidency. Koxkan: Sioo/csl ; Island of Bjra- 

 bay, Bcdzell S^ Gibson. Deccan : JDalzdl cf" Gibson, Stocks !, Jacqn.emont, 1012 !, 

 Woodrow ! Gujarat : Siirat, Bcdzell ^- Gibson. S. M. Country : Belgauoi, Ritchie, 

 9851; Badami, Cooke \ — Distrib. Tropical Asia and Australia. 



5. Polygala irregularis, Bolss. Diag. ser. 1 (1842) fasc. 1, p. 8. 

 Perennial, 8-18 in. high, erect, branching from the base; branches elon- 

 gate, twiggy. Leaves very shortly petioled; the lower obovate, very small ; 

 the upper g-lg by ^-| in., linear-oblong, mucronate, attenuate at the 

 base, glabrous, margins repaud. Flowers in terminal, elongate lax 

 racemes, 2-8 in. long ; crest small, multifid ; pedicels very short, pendu- 

 lous, thickened at the apex, shorter than the flowers ; bracts ovate, 

 acute, scarious, caducous, leaving a pi'ojecting cicatrix. Outei- sepals 

 ovate, acute, margins membranous. Wings y^- in. long, membranous, 

 petaloid, ovate, obtase, gibbous at the base, reticulately nerved, longer 

 than the capsule. Capsules obliquely emarginate, glabi'ous, margins 

 membranous, transversely striate, not ciliate. Seeds conical, very acute 

 at the apex, densely clothed with short hairs ; strophiole 0, its place 

 being taken by 2 lateral inconspicuous, aculeiform, pendent appendages. 

 Not in Fl. B. I. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 1, p. 469 ; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 v. 1 , p. 131 ; Chodat, Monogr. Polygal. part 2, p. 392, t. 30, figs. 12-14. 

 Polygcda ahijssinica, Woodi'. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 124 

 (not of R. Br.). — Flowers : Dec. 



A rare plant, found in Sind and on the coast of Kathiawar. Gujarat ; Coast of 

 Kathiawar, Dalzell ! Sind ; Cooke !, Woodrow ! — Distrib. Arabia, Cordofan, Bela- 

 chistan. 



Order XVI. CARYOPHYLLACE^. 



Annual herbs, rarely shrubby at the base ; the branches often thick- 

 ened and sometimes articulated at the joints. Leaves opposite, usually 

 connate at the base ; stipules scarious or 0. Inflorescence usually a 

 diehotomous cyme, rarely racemose or solitary ; flowers regular, usually 

 hermaphrodite. Sepals 4-5, free or connate, imbricate in bud. Petals 

 as many as the sepals (rarely 0), inserted on a hypogynous or more rarely 

 perigynous ring, imbricate. Stamens 8 or 10, rarely fewer, inserted 

 with the petals ; anthers 2-celled, cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Torus usually small and annular, or elongated into a gynophore, so 

 that the petals, stamens, and ovary are stalked within the calyx, or 

 expanded into an annular disk sliglitly adhering to the calyx, or into 

 short glands between the stamens, or, very rarely, into staminodes 

 opposite the sepals outside the stamens. Ovary free, 1-celled, or some- 



