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potaloici, wing shaped. Ivet'l coucave-galeatc or cristate. Carina 

 concave-galcate or cristate. Fruit drupaceous, 1, 2-sperinous ; seeds 

 cxarillate. Other characters of Po'jjcjala. — Eaniified small shrubs, 

 usually spiuesceut ; leaves fasciculate subacieular ; flowers terminal 

 or more usually axillary, solitary or sometimes 2, 3-nate. [South 

 Africa.^) 



5. Monnina R. and Pay.- — Flowers nearly of Polf/rjala ; sepals 

 lateral, large, petaloid, wing- shaped. Petals 3-5 ; the lateral very 

 small, scarcely visible, glanduliform or oftener ; the anterior (keel) 

 concave-galeate, eutii'e or widely 3-lobed ; the posterior small, more 

 or less adnate to stamiual tube. Stamens 8 (of Poliji/ala) or G (the 

 2 lateral opnositipetalous wanting); anthers 1, 2-locular, dehiscing 

 by two short oblique clefts. Germen 2-locular, or sometimes 

 (posterior cell aborting) l-lo3ular. Other characters of Polygala. 

 Fruit 1, 2-sperin>us, dry, inlehisaent, wingless, or at margin mem- 

 branous-winged, more rarely drupaceous ; seed exarillate, slightly 

 albuminous — Herbs, shrubs or small trees ; leaves alternate ; flowers 

 in spike-shaped racemes, teriuinal or more rarely axillary, 2 -bract eo- 

 late. {Troll . and suh. trap. America.'^) 



G. Comesperma Labill.''— Flowers nearly of PoIi/gala ; sepals 

 2 larger, wing-shai)ed. Petals, the lateral more or less connate with 

 keel {Eucomcspcnna) or free {Brcdcmeijcru ^). Stamens generally 8, 

 1-adelplious ; sheath cut at back. Germen and ovules of Pohjijala. 

 Capsule piano- compressed, subfleshy or membranous or coriaceous at 

 base, long cuneate-narrow, loculicidal at margin ; seeds glabrous or 

 pubescent above, aril oftener small or linear to raphe ; testa pilose with 

 very long descending hairs, on all sides or oftener close to hilum. 



1 Spec. 1, 2, IIarv. et Suxd. Fl. Cap. i. 9.5. iv. 239; vii. 2.54. 



2 K. et Pav. Fl. Per. S>/H. i. 169.— DC. * PL Nom.-IIoU. ii. 21, t. 159-163.— DC. 

 Prndr. i. 338.— A. S. H. et BIuQ. in Mem. Prcr/r. i. 334.— A. S. II. et Moa. in Mem Mm. 

 Mif. xvii. 352, t. 30, lag. 2; xix. 333.— xvii. 351, t. 29, fig. 2; xi.x. 329.-Endl. G-n. 

 Spacii, fill!!, a liiiffuti, vii. 14".- ExDL. Gen. n. 5649.— H. Bx. in P<ajcr Fmn. Nat. 310.— B. 

 n. 5G52. — \i.Ms. in Ada II s(»n II, \.l~( a; hi Pa iicr H. Gf«. 138, 974, n. 6. — Mm. iu Ann. Mas. 

 Fam. Nal. 310.— B. H. Gin. 139, n. 12.— Utie- Lti;/d.-Sat. i. 184. 



aiiflrii BoxrL. in Ileil. Mag. (1802) 40. * W. in Nam Schr. Gcs. Nat. Bcrl. iii. 406, 



■■• Spec, about 50 ; H. B. K. Nm-. Gen. et Spec. t. 4.— DC. Pmdi: i. 340.— A. S. H. et Moq. 



r. 409, t. 501-505.— A. S. II. FL Bras. Mu: ii. op. cit. xix. 337.— Exdl. Gen.n. 5654.— B. 11. 



."i9, t. 93-95.— C. Gay. Fl. C/iil. i. 239.— Hook. Gen. 138, 974, n. l.—Catocima Be.nth. in llauk. 



et AuN. in Btcc/i. Voi/.Bot.t. 6. — Tii. et Bl. in Jonrn. Bit. iv. 401. — Enul. Gen. n. 5648; 



Aiin. Sc. Nal. ser. 4, xvii. 136. — Miq. in (Siippl. iii. 96). — lluulanin Biul. in Linnwa. 



Ai.n. Mas. I.iigd..Bat.\. 191.— 7)W. Mag. t. 3122. xxxiii. IS (ex B. II. Inc. cil.). 

 — Walp. Rep. i. 245 ; ii. 769 ; Ann. i. 75 ; ii. 85 ; 



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