88 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



— Slu-ubs, uudershi'ubs or herbs, rarely parasitical discoloured, 

 bearing scales (J^?/r/«'.?a«i/«e5); leaves alternate, opposite or verticil- 

 late, simple, usually eutii-e, exstipiilate ; flowers in simple or more 

 rarely compound racemes or spikes, sometimes short capiti;liforni ; 

 inflorescence terminal, lateral, or more rarely axillary ; pedicels often 

 articulate at base, 1-bracteate ; bractlets usually 2. [All hot and 

 iemf crate regions.) See p. 71. 



2. Phlebotsenia Gkiseb.i — Flowers nearly of Poli/gala ; sepals 

 the 2 lateral larger wing-shaped. Petals 5 ; 2 exterior free or 

 slightly aduate to staminal tube, separated from carina ; carina longer 

 than the posterior, connate with it, concave-galeate and cristate. 

 Stamens 8 ; sheath open at back, high adnate to petals. Gyneeceum 

 of Polijgala. Capsule 2-locular, at margin on both sides 2 -winged; 

 wings 4, vertical membranous ; 2 anterior much larger. Other 

 characters of Polygala. — Glabrous shrubs ; leaves alternate, at base 

 cuneate, rigid, oblique, subpai'allel reticulate-venose ; flowers in 

 short terminal or lateral racemes.^ {Cuba.^) 



3. Muraltia Neck.' — Flowers neavly oî Poli/gala ; sepals in pairs 

 unequal glumaceous. Stamens 7, 8, in sheath, connate above 

 fissiu'e. Germen and other characters of Polggaia. Capsule submem- 

 branous compressed. Apex 4-gibbous or 4-cornate, sometimes 

 truncate, loculicidal at margin. Seeds albuminous thick arillate. — 

 Ramified shrubs or underslu-ubs ; leaves alternate or fasciculate, small, 

 rigid, often aciculate ; flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile. (South 

 AfricaJ') 



4. Mundtia K.'' — Flowers nearly of Polygala; sepals 2 large 



I PI. TFi-iff/it. Ciih. lôfi ; Cut. PI. Ciili. 14.— 137, n. i.—Heafuriir lÎEur.. Fl. f'np. 185 



n. H. Gen. 138, n. 8. (nee L.)- 



- A gonus mucli better made a section •■ Spec, ad 50, Andk. Pot. Pijws. t. 3G3, 



of Pohjgala (?), nearly related to Badlcra, 424 {Vohjgahi). — Paxt. Mag. B'lt. iv. 149, 



differs especially by its lateral petals, exterior ic. — Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 95. — Mm. in 



sub-equally long sepals, long and naiTOW at An». Miis. Liiffd.-Pnt.i.lS'i. — Walp. Ann. vii. 



base, with winged fruit ; wings four, in pairs, 249. 



very unequal. " Nov. Gen. ct Spec. v. 392, not. (Miindia). 



^ Spec. 1. P. cuneata Griseb. Ioc. cit. — -DC. Piodr. i. 337. — A. S. H. et Moq. in 



Walp. Ann. vii. 253. Mém. Mus. xvii. 352 ; xix. 332 (part). — Spacii. 



< Elem. n. 1832.— DC. Prodr. i. 335.— Smt. à Biiffon, vii. 145.— Endl. Qen. n. 5651. 



A. S. H. et Mod. in Mém. Mus. xvii. 353, — B. U. Gen. 137, 974, n. 5.— H. Bn. 



t. 29, fig. 4 ; xix. 331. — Spach, Suit, à in Prn/ei- Fcim. Nat. ZW.—Nylandtia DnMORT. 



BtiffoH, vii. 141.— Endl. Gen. n. 5650.— Comm. 31. 

 H. Bn. in Adanmiia, i. 178.— B. H. Gen. 



