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Herbs, Erect, with Aiternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire . 



Petals United. 



Polygala leptalea, 



POLYGALACE^. 



F. B. I. i. 202. 

 Himalaya, 2-5,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Polygala Hohenhackeri- 

 ana, 



PoLYGALACB.^E. 



F. B. I. i. 202. 



The Plains west of the 

 Jhelum to 3,500 ft. 

 in Waziristan (Ste- 

 wart), 



Attock (Vicary). 



Baluchistan (Stocks). 



Poiygala persicariae- 

 folia, 



POLYGALACE^. 



F. B. I. i. 202. 

 Himalaya east of the 

 Sutlej, 5-9,000 ft. 

 Valleys below 

 Simla (CoUett). 

 Dharmpur. 



Polygala erioptera, 



POLYGALACE^. 



F. B. I. i. 203. 

 The Plains. 

 Polygala chinensis, 



Polygala sibirica, 



POLYGALACE^. 



F. B. I. i. 205. 

 Himalaya, 1-6,000 ft. 



Cotyledon Oreades, 



Crassulacb^. 



F. P. I. ii. 416. 



Kashmir. 



Pir Panjal (Jacque- 



mont) Marbul Pass, 



(C. B. Clarke). 



very much like the last species, but the stem 

 deeply furrowed, the lower leaves often obloug- 

 lanceolate, racemes 1-2 in., dense-flowered flowers 

 smaller, seeds silky. 



very small, with grey hairs or velvety, stems and 

 branches 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 \ 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 i 

 in. circular smooth with a broad membranous wing, 

 seeds densely silky with 2 appendages ; otherwise 

 like the last species. 



small, annnal, slender, much branched, slightly 

 velvety ; leaves 1-2 in., linear or lanceolate-oblong 

 with rounded ends, nearly sessile flaccid, bracts 

 awl-shaped, stalks curved, racemes 1-2 in., slender, 

 loose flowered, terminal and extra axillary, flowers 

 pink, wing sepals yellowish grey, capsule notched, 

 ovate, minutely fringed, narrowly winged near the 

 tip, seeds woolly with the 2 appendages ; other- 

 wise like the last species. 



like the last species, but the leaves ^-1 in., 

 racemes axillary or extra-axillary, wing sepals 

 oblong with a strong green midrib. 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, 

 Simple. 



small to medium-size, velvety, stems many, 

 slender from a perennial stock ; leaves |^-2 in., 

 circular or lanceolate-oblong with rounded ends or 

 linear, shining and netted above, margins turned 

 down, wing sepals oblong or ovate with a broad 

 tip, capsule broadly winged, smooth, seeds hairy 

 with 3 appendages ; otherwise like the last species 

 described above. 



very small, annual, fleshy, smooth, stems many 

 curved, branches leafy ; leaves \ in., radical ar- 

 ranged in a rosette narrow lanceolate bristle- 

 pointed flowers small, white nodding in small 

 clusters at the top of branches, sepals J in., oblong 

 short-pointed, petals 5, united at the base, a 

 little longer than the sepals, stamens 5, styles 5 ; 

 carpels 5, tapering into the thread-like styles, 

 seeds many oblong with rounded ends, covered 

 with minute tubercles. 



