Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 131 



RB larj^e as the corolla. Keel hooded. OajJsuh sub-orbicular, entire, 

 narx'owly 2-winged. Wall. Cat. 4182 (species). 



Perak. At low elevations. 



Sect. III. Herbs, sometimes woody at the base. Calyx persistent. 

 Keel crested. Seeds albuminous. 



3. PoLYGALA LEPTALEA, DC. Prod. I, 325. A perennial glabrous 

 herb, the root-stock woody. Stems erect, rigid, boldly striate, few- 

 leaved. Lp.aves sessile, linear-lanceolate, '5 to '75 in. long. Racemes 

 1 to 3 in. lonar, elongating with age, slender. Floioers '2 to "25 

 in. long. Gnpsule ovoid, emarginate at the apex, narrowly winged ; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 202 ; Benth. FI. Austral, i. 139 ; Hassk. in Miq. 

 Ann. Mus. i. 173. P. oUgophylla, DC. 1. c. 325; Wall. Cat. 4188. 

 P, discolor. Ham. in Don Prodi-, 199. 



Nicobar Islands. Distrib. British Tmlia, Ceylon. 



4. PoLYGALA BRACHY.sTACHYA, Bl. Bijdr. 69. A slender, prostrate 

 or sub-erect herb. Branches puberulous, terete behnv, angled above, 

 4 to 6 in. long. Leaves with very short petioles, linear-lanceolate, bristle- 

 pointed, glabrous, "4 in. long, and 05 in. broad. Racemes much longer 

 than the leaves, few-flowered, slender, axillary or extra-axillary; pedi- 

 cels nearly as loner as the flowers. Flnmers '15 in. long; laternl sepals 

 obovate-oblongr. Keel narrow below ; the apex suddeidy dilated, 3-lobed. 

 Capsule sub-orbicular, the apex emarginate, the edges ciliolate. Hassk. 

 in iMiq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Hat. I, 157 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. ii, p. 125. 

 P. chinensis, Linn., var. hracliydacliya. 



Malacca, Griffitli. Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



5. PoLYGALA TBLEPHioiDE-;, Willd. Sp. PL iii, 876. A prostrate 

 annual with a woody root. Stems 2-4 in. long, pubescent or glabrous. 

 Leaves glabrous, often imbricate, fleshy, sessile, obovate or oblong, 

 obtuse or acute, the margins recurved, the base slightly narrowed, the 

 midrib prominent, nerves obsolete ; lensftli "5 to "05 in. Flowers '1 in. 

 long, in short, extra-axillary racemes. Cupffules '1 in. long, sul)-orbicular, 

 notched at apex, not winged. Hook. fil. Br. Ind, I, 205; DC. Prod. 

 I, 332 ; W. & A. Prod. I, 36, '/ P. serpi/lUfalia, Poir. Diet. V, 499 ; DC. 

 I.e. 326. P. bnxiformis, Hassk. in Miq. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 161. 



Nicobar Islands. Distrib. Peninsular India, Ceylon, Malayan Ar- 

 chipelago, Philippines, China. 



2. Sat,omonia, Lour. 



Leafy diffuse annuals, or (Sect. Epirhizanthes) parasites with leaves 

 reduced to scales. Floioers minute, in deuse terminal spikes. Sepah 

 nearly equal, the 2 interior somewhat larger. Petals 3, united at the base 

 with the staminal tube ; the inferior keel-shaped, galeate, not crested. 



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