206 xvi. POLYGALE.E. (A. W. Bennett.) [Polygala. 



16. P. g-lomerata, Lour. Fl. Cock. 426 ; stems tall erect, or ascending, 

 leaves large from broad-ovate and oblong to elliptic lanceolate and linear, 

 racemes extra-axillary very short, 2-3-flowered, flowers drooping, outer 

 sepals acuminate, wings herbaceous hatchet-shaped acuminate and awned, 

 capsule narrowly winged strongly ciliate. DC. Pr<lr. i. '.}-2t>. P. densiflora, 

 Mwne Hijd. 59; Hassk. in MI<L. Mn*.Bot. i. 166. P. depauperata, Wall. 

 Cat. 4180. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA, hot valleys of Sikkim, alt. 1-6000 ft. ; OUDE ; ASSAM ; KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 0-5000 ft. ; TENASSEKIM. DISTKIU. Eastern Archipelago, China. 



Stems many from a woody stock, 1-2 ft. hii:h, den-ely pubescent, curved. Leaves 

 very variable, 1^-24 in., flat, glabrous or hairy, nut veined, sessile or shortly petioled, 

 sometimes cordate. Racemes scattered, small; peduncles shorter than the Ho\v< ix. 

 which are \-\ in. long, green. Outer s<pals subequal, acute, ciliate. Cn-xt very small. 

 (.'a/>ttle in. broad and long, 2-lobed. &'< ky. obovoid ; strophiole with .'$ >hoi t 



appendages. Thwaitea' specimen named nlnm rntd resembles it in habit, but d'lVers 

 totally in the capsuJp and seed; they no doubt belong to a large state of 

 (see var. elata). 



DOUBTFUL SPECIFY. 



/'. Unnrifolia, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 877 (lineanfolia, DC. Prodr. i J326). 

 . /'. /n-ocumbens, Roth. Nov. Sp. 32'.' : DC. 1'n.dr. i. o-'i). lud. Or. 

 P. variant, Mart. DC. I.e. 332. Bengal. 

 P. umbrosa, Mart. DC. I.e. Bengal. 

 P. macropetala, Hassk. I.e., perhaps P. japoniea, var. 2. 



2. SAX.O1KONXA, Lour. 



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

 reduced to scales. Flowers minute, in dense terminal spikes. ,sV/^/.s- m-jirly 

 equal, 2 interior somewhat larger. 7V^//.s 3, united at the l>a>c with tin- 

 staininal tube, the inferior keel-shaped, galeate, not crested. 8ttintr lf x 4-5, 

 filaments united for their lower half into a sheath ; anthers opening by 

 pores. O/'dfif ^-celled, each cell with <>no pendulons ovule. Caj>x//te much 

 c(>in]ressed laterally, 2-celled, loculicidal, margins toothed. >Sr ( /.s- albu- 

 minous, not or scarcely Btropniolate -- DISTKJU. Species about b, natives of 

 Eastern tropical Asia and tropical Australia. 



SECT. I. Salomonia, DC. Stems leafy. 



1. S. cantoniensis, Lour. Fl. Coch. 14 ; stem winged, leaves cordate- 

 ovate shortly petioled, spikes rather lax, capsule with triangular teeth. 

 Walt. Cat, 4192 ; DC. J'r^/r. i. ;m ; I},;,th.. W.llomjk. 44 ; . !//</. /'A,. 

 Jiul. i. pt. 2, 127 ; ll*sk. in Mi'/. Aim. Man. i. 144. S. subrotunda, 7A/.W.-. 

 c- Salomonia, sp. 3 in G'r//. Xolul. iv. 539. 



EASTERN BENGAL; ASSAM; KHASI/A MTS., alt. 0-4000 ft.; EASTERN PENINSULA. 

 DISTRIB. Malayan Archipelago. 



A weedy erect mueh-branehed diffuse annual, 3-6 in. Leaves large, paler beneath. 

 ffpikcs numerous, terminal, lax below, denser above. Bract* minute, early deciduous. 

 Jr lowers minute, quite sessile. /Sepals linear subulate. Petals united below, the two 

 lateral shorter than the keel. Cajjsule very small, broader than long, armed with a row 

 of recurved triangular teeth. Seeds black, shining, not strophiolate. 



2. S. ciliata, DC. Prodr. i. 334; stem furrowed, leaves sessile cordate- 

 amplexicaul ciliate, spike very dense, capsule with filiform teeth. S. cor- 



