POLYOALACE-E. SO 



petaloid, wing shaped. Iveol concavo-galeato or cristate. Carina 

 concave-galoate or cristate. Fruit dnipaceous, 1, 2-spermons; seeds 

 exarillate. Other characters of Po'ygnla. — Ramified small shrubs, 

 usually spiuescent ; leaves fiisciculate subacicular ; flowers terminal 

 or m.ore usually axillary, solitary or sometimes 2, 3-uate. {^Sotifh 

 Africa.^) 



5. Monnina E. aud Pav.~ — Flowers nearly of Polyc/ala ; sepals 

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

 small, scarcely visible, glauduliform or oftoner ; the anterior (keel) 

 coucave-galeate, entire or widely 3-lobed; the posterior small, more 

 or less aduate to staminal tube. Stamens S (of Pohjf/nla) or C (the 

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

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

 (posterior cell aborting) I -lobular. Other characters of Pohjgala. 

 Fruit 1, 2-spermous, dry, indéhiscent, 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, terminai or more rarely axillary, 2-.bractco- 

 latc. [Trop, and sub. trop. A)iicrica.^) 



G. Comesperma Labill.* — Flowers nearly of Polygala ; sepals 

 2 larger, wing-shaped. Petals, the lateral more or less connate with 

 keel [Eiicomesjjcnna) or free [Bredcmc/jcni ^). Stamens generally 8, 

 1-adelphous ; sheath cut at back. Germen and ovules of Pohjgala. 

 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, Hauv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 95. iv. 239 ; vii. 254. 



3 R. et Pav. Fl. Per. Si/st. i. 169.— DC. ■• Fl. Nouv.-ni,ll. ii. 21, t. 159-IG3.— DC. 



Prodr. i. 338.— A. S. H. et Moq. in Mém. rndy. i. 33-4.— A. S. H. et MoQ. in Mêm Mus. 



Mif^. XTii. 352, t. 30, fig. 2; xix. 333.— xvii. 351, t. 29, fig. 2; xix. 329.-Endl. 6ni. 



Spach, Suit, à Biiffoii, vii. 147.— Endl. Gen. n. 5649.— H. Bn. in P,!ycr Finn. Nnt. 310.— B. 



n. 5652.— H. Bn. in ^(/««so^w, i. 175; inPfl^CT- H. Gf". 138, 974, n. G.— Mia. in Ann. Mils. 



Fam. Nat. 310.— B. H. Gen. 139, n. \2.—Sebe- Lntjd.-Bat. i. 184. 

 andra Bontl^ in Tied. .1/aff. (1802) 40. ^ W. in Neiie Sc/ir. Ges. Nat. Berl. iii. 406, 



=< Spec, about 50 ; H. B. K. Nov. Oeii. et Sjve. t. J,.— DC. Prodr. i. 340.— A. S. II. et Moq. 



V. 409, t. 501-505.— A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. op. cit. xix. 337.— Endl. Gen. n. 5654.— B. H. 



59, t. 93-95.— C. G.iY. Fl. C'hil. i. 239.— Hook. Gen. 138, 974, n. I.—Catocwia Benth. in Hook. 



et Arn. in iS«!f/(. Foy. 7?of. t. 6.— Til. et Pl. in Jmirii. Bit. iv. 401.— Endl. Gcii. n. 5648; 



Ahii. Sc. Nat. se'r. 4, xvii. 136.— Miq. in (Suppl. iii. Q6).~Hiialania Phil, in Limiwa. 



Ann. Mm. Lugd.-Bat.\. \9\.—Bot. Mag. t. 3122. xxxiii. IS (ex B. H. he. cit.). 

 — Walp. Itcp. i. 245 ; ii. 769 ; Ann. i. 75 ; ii. So ; 



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