202 xvi. POLYGALE.E. (A. W. Bennett.) [Folygala. 



racemes very short, bracts subulate, wings obovate. DC. Prodr. i. 327 ; 

 Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 185 ; Cat. 4176 ; and /3 pygmsea, Cat. 4176 D (a da 

 form). Royle III. t. 19 C ; liable, in Mi'/. Mt<*. tiot. i. 164. 



TEMP. HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft., from Chamba to Sikkiin ; KHASIA MTS. 



Stems 4-8 in., erect or ascending, leafy. Leavt-s 1-2 in., tip rounded, nmcronate or 

 not ; petiole very short. Racemes very short, dense-flowered, rarely terminal. Fl<>ir,-rs 

 J ^ in. long, very shortly pedice led ; bracts minute. \Vhxj* with rounded tips, twice 

 as long as the capsule. Capnde broader than long, notched, strongly ciliate. Seeds 

 hairy ; strophiole with 2 small ovate appendages. 



ft Herbs. Wings petaloicl, membranous. Strophiole witlwui <ii>j mlages. 



5. P. abyssinica, Frexen. in M"*. />>*/-. ii. 273 ; perennial, stems erect, 

 glabrous, leaves narrow-linear, racemes terminal long Lax -flowered, bracta 

 ovate, seeds covered with long hairs. O///-. /'/. TI-J: J//-/'r. i. 130. P. (,e- 

 rardiana, Wall. Cnt. 41^7; //<//. in Mi-/. Ami. M us. i. 173. P. scabra, 

 Fil'jcii'. in Trans. Linn. S<*-. xx. 33. 



SUBTROP. and TEMP. HIMALAYA, alt. 3-8000 ft., from Murri to Kumaon, Jnr^ie.- 

 mont, &c. ; PUX.JAH at Moultan, h'ilii> intrth. DI.STKIH. Afghanistan; Abyssinia to 

 Natal. 



Branches 8-18 in., very numerous, slender, ascending from a w ..... ly stock, twiggy. 

 ].ires ^-jf in., very narrow, acuminate, scarcely pi-;ioled. !!<"< in>>. 2-6 in., I 

 slcud.-r, naked, l-'l<>,r<r* \ in. lon.^. sccund or subsrciiiid : Lrai-ts cadm-uns. narrow- 

 o\ato, margins membranous as aiv the ou: \\' ni/s obOTEt^. obtliae, in"/vcd. 



( '"/wile obovate, emarginate, narrowly winged, tieid* densely hairy, hairs longer than 

 the s<-fd ; .strophiole galeate. 



fi. P. leptalea, DC. Prodr. i. 32/5; perennial, stems erect 

 habit of JP. abystinicOt but racemes denite-flowered, fltiwurs smaller, B< 



silky. Wall. Cat. 4189; Bnitti. FI. Att*1,'l. i. 13-. ; ll<i**k. <n M,. Ann. 

 Mas. i. 173. 1'. oligophylla, J)C. l.c.'.tti; Wnll. Cut. 41 bS. P. discolor, 

 Ham. in Don Prodr. 199. 



SUBTKOP. HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Nipal ; BEHAR ; KHASI\ Mrs., as. ending to 

 4000 ft ; NILGHIRI MTS.: K \M. ><,%. A\ A. < KYI.OV l>is'ii:iit. Australia. 



Very similar to P. abyttiinoA. oStewu deeply furrowed. Lun-i-r li-avcs often oblong- 

 lanceolate. Racemes 1-2 in., naked. /'/<// / ^-\ in., subseennd ; bracts twice as 

 long as the buds, deciduous immediately after the llower expands. ]\'inys much nar- 

 rowed below. Mroji/dole small galeate. 



7. P. Hohenackeriana, Finch, d: M< ;j. I ml. >''///. ll<f. r<-tr<>i>. iv. 42; 

 lioary. stems many short I'rom a perennial stock, leaves oblong lanceolate or 

 obovate-lanceolate obtuse or subacute, racemes short terminal rnany- 

 nowered, upper outer sepal much the largest obtuse, wings broad elliptic 

 obtuse very membranous, capsule very broadly winged. P. Hohenacke- 

 riana var. Stocksiana, Jlni.^. FI. Orient, i. 472. P. supina wr. Hohenacke- 

 riana, Regel PI. Raddi, t. 7, 6, 12. 



WESTERN PUNJAB, Attock, Vicary ; Waziristan, ascending to 3500 ft., Stewart. 

 DISTRIB. Afighanistan and Beluchislan, Persia, Caucasus. 



Stems 2-3 in., much branched from the base, suberect, hoary or pubescent. Leaves 

 -| in., pale, hoary, at length glabrous, nerveless. Racemes \-^ in., subsessile, dense- 

 flowered. Flowtrs drooping, nearly J in. long ; pedicels short, bracts small, tiepals 

 with broad scarious martriris, upper linear-obovate, 2 lateral very small oblong obtuse; 

 wings white, veins very delicate not anastomosing. Capsule % in. ; glabrous, orbicular, 

 with a broad membranous wing. Seeds densely silky ; strophiole with 2 appendages. 



8. P. persicari&folia, DC. Prodr. i. 326 ; annual, erect, leaves linear 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, racemes terminal and extra-axillary, pedicels slender, 



