Polygala.'] xv, polygalea: (oliver). 133 



(Harv. in Fl. Capensis, i. 88, and syns.). P. stenopeiala, Klotzsch in Peters' 

 Mossanib. Bot. 114. t. 23 (as P. stmophylla). 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, provs. Puu{<o Andougo, and (with fluwera pilose) Huilla. 

 Br. Welwilsch! 



Var. melanoph/eba (Welw.). Flowers smaller. Wing-sepals ovate, narrowed at the base, 

 with 3 conspicuous coloured looping nervures. Capsule obovate, shorter than the wings. 

 Angola, prov. Huilla, Dr. Welwilsch! 



The same plant grows in Natal and Calfraria; a form very near to P. melanopAleba, d'liTcr- 

 ing in having flowers twice as large and wings not marked by coloured nerves. 



19. P. Petitiana, Rich. FL Abyss, i. 37. A glabrous, erect, leafy, 

 usually branching annual of 6-12 in. Leaves plane, membranous, linear, 

 narrowed to each end and finely pointed, 1-2 in. long, l|-2 lines broad. 

 Flowers in terminal erect racemes ; pedicels usually exceeding the outer 

 sepals, subclavate, spreading or decurved ; bracts subulate, cyducous. An- 

 terior sepals connate, emarginate. Wing-sepals ovate, often much narrowed 

 to the base, with 3 looping dark-coloured nerves, persistent. Lateral petals 

 rotundate or broadly obovate. Crest 0. Capsule oblong-elliptical, broadly 

 emarginate, exalate, glabrous, as long as and broader than the wings. — P. 

 tetrasepala, Hoclist. in PI. Schimp. Abyss. 



Nile Ijand. Abyssinia, Schhnper ! Petit ! 



20, P. Huillensis, Welw. mss. A low, wiry and shrubby, glabrous 

 or puberulous herb of 1 ft. or under, with numerous diffuse or decum- 

 bent sometimes elongate branches, from a much divided root-stock. Leaves 

 rather thick, linear or oblanceolate-linear, pointed or obtuse and mucronulate 

 or sometimes emarginate, narrowed to the base, glabrous, sessile or sub- 

 sessile, :^-l in. long, yo—j in. wide. Flowers in loose terminal or extra-axil- 

 lary racemes, sometimes 2-3 in. long, often very short or flowers solitary. 

 Bracts very early deciduous; pedicels i in. or less, after flowering sharply 

 rcflexed or patent, thickened upwards into the outer sepals, the anterior of 

 which are connate and 2-fid. Wing-sepals greenish, elliptical, narrowed 

 below with 3 principal nerves. Lateral petals obovate-cuncate, nearly equal- 

 ling the keel. Capsule quadrate-elliptical, emarginate, not winged, glabrous. 

 Seeds pubescent. 



liower Guinea. Angola, prov. Huilla, Dr. Ifelwilsch! 



P. Figftriana, Webb, Frag. Fl. jEthiop. 31. Suffrutescent, branching. Branches 

 reticulate-striate. Leaves sparse, linear, acute, subsessile. Spikes ternnnal. Hracts linear- 

 lanceolate, subulate. Smaller sepals acute, red; lateral (wings) roundish-ovate, hyaline, 

 penuinerved, as long as the cristate, much-incurved, apiculate keel. Capsule ? 



Nile Iiand. Sennar? 



The description, based upon a single flowering specimen, is taken from Mr. NVcbb. 1 

 have failed to identify it. 



P. conoBperma, Bojer in Ann. Sc. Nat Ser. 2. iv. 206. A rather weak herb of 1-2 

 ft. ; stem simple, 2-3-forked above with terminal racemes, glabrous. Leaves erect linear 

 acute or mucronate, glabrous, obtuse at the base, 2 in. long, U-2 lines broad. Racemes 

 ample,' erect, many-flowered. Flowers pedicellate, secnnd, pale rose. Hrarts M>tarcou8, 

 caducous, exceeding the pedicels. Outer s« pals 2, navicular, acute, half as long as the innpr 



