Pla7its of the Pimjah. 



283 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 

 Petals united. 



Polygala 

 crotalarioides, 



PoLYGALACEiE. 



F.B.Li. 201. 



Himalaya, 

 4-7,000 ft., 

 east of the Eavi. 

 Simla (Collett). 



perennial, densely hairy, rootstock woody, often 

 tuberous, stems short, tliick, sometimes reclining, 

 leaves |-2 in., ovate or oblong-ovate, tip rounded with 

 or without an abrupt point, with few scattered hairs, 

 flowers I'l in. long, purple, very shortly stalked in very 

 short, dense-flowered, rarely terminal racemes, bracts 

 minute, av.d-shaped, sepals persistent, inner wing sepals 

 ovate with a broad tip, twice as long as the capsule, keel 

 petal crested, capsule heart-shaped, broader than long, 

 fringed with bristles, seeds vrith. 2 small appendages ; 

 otherwise like the last species. 



Polygala abyssinica, 



Polygalace^. 

 F. B. L i. 202. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-8,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Matiana, Multan 

 (Edgeworth). 



small to medium size, smooth, branches many, 

 leaves |-f in., narrow linear, long-pointed, almost sessile, 

 flowers I in. long, pink on one side of long terminal slender 

 loose-flowered racemes 2-6 in. long, bracts ovate, soon 

 falling off, wing sepals yeliowish-green, capsule narrowly 

 winged near the top, seeds densely hairy, not appendaged ; 

 otherwise like the last species. 



Polygala leptalea, 



Polygalace^. 

 F. B. 1. i. 202. 

 Himalaya, 

 2-5,000 'ft. 

 Kashmir. 



very much like the last species, but the stem deeply 

 furrowed, the lower leaves often oblong-lanceolate, ra- 

 cemes 1-2 in., dense-flowered, flowers smaller, seeds silky. 



Ploygaia 

 Hohenhackeriana, 



PoLYGALACKyE. 



F. B. I. i. 202. 

 The Plains west of 

 the Jhelum to 

 3,500 ft. in 

 Waziristan 

 (Stewart). 

 Attock (Vicary). 

 Baluchistan 

 (Stocks). 



• very small, with grey hairs or velvety, stems and 

 l>ranches many from a perennial stock, leaves |-| in., 

 grey hairy, thin, smooth, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate- 

 ovate with a broad tip, blunt or nearly short-pointed, 

 flowers I in., drooping on short stalks in nearly sessile 

 dense-flowered terminal racemes |-| in. long, bracts 

 small, sepals with broad thin margins, upper outer one 

 much the largest, linear-ovate with a broad tip, 2 lateral 



very small, oblong, blunt. 



wings 



white, capsule ^ in., cir- 



cular, smooth with a broad membranous wing, seeds densely 

 silky with 2 appendages ; otherwise like the last species. 



