98 POLYGALACE^ KEAMERIACE^. 



The chief characteristic of the order is bitterness, but its qualities have 

 not been thoroughly examined, and the praise which was formerly bestow- 

 ed on the medicinal powers of some, has, in most cases, been found to be 

 undeserved. Even Polygala Senega is now comparatively seldom used in 

 diseases of the chest, and that only in chronic catarrhs, where all inflam- 

 mation has ceased. 

 Polygala, L. {DC. pr. \,p. 321 ^—W. and A. pr. I, p. 36.) 



1. myrti/olia, L. (DC. o. c.p. 322 ,—B. Reg. 8. t. 669.) B C. G. Hope. 

 Fl. largish, pale rose-coloured, purple-veined, nearly the whole year ; 

 fr. 0. 



2. telephioides, Willd. (DC. pr. I, p. 332 ■,—Roxb. fl. ind. 3, jj. 218;— 

 W. and A.pr. 1, p. 36.) % Peninsula of India, Bengal. Fl. small, 

 greenish rose. In H. C. G. fl. R. S. ; fr C. S. (Roxb.) 



3. ciliata, L. (W. and A.pr. I, p. 38. Salomonia ? ciliata,Z)Cjor. 1, jo.334.) 

 p. jninor (P. prostrata, Willd. ; — DC. o. c. p. 333. — P. arvensis, 



Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 218; not Willd.) CSJ^[^ Meradoo. '>^'^% 

 Garoodoo. % Peninsula of India, Bengal, (Serampore.) Fl. small, 

 greenish white, with a tinge of rose, R. S. ; fr. C. S. 

 Salomonia, Lour. (DC. pr. I, p. 333; — Wight, ill. I, p. 49.) 



1. cantoniensis, Lour, (DC. o. c. p. 334.) © Canton, Khassya Mountains. 

 Fl. small, greenish rose-coloured ; C. S. 

 Xanthophyllum, Roxb. (fV. and A.pr. 1, p. 39.) 



1. virens, Roxb. (fl. ind. 2, p. 22L) L. b Khassya Mountains, Assam. 

 Fl. small, yellowish-rose-coloured. In H. C. G. fl. Feb. March and 

 April ; fr. June and July. — Wood said to be remarkably hard, and 

 useful to the Natives. (Roxb.) 

 Securidaca, L. (DC.pr. I, p. 340.) 



1. scandens, Buch. (S. paniculata, Roxb. fl. ind. 3. p. 219 ; not Lam.) L. 

 Bw Fl. smallish, red. In H. C. G. fl. R. S. ; fr. March and April. (Roxb.) 



Polygala scoparia, H. B. Kth. % Mexico. — P. hebeclada, DC. % 

 Brazil. — P. oxyphylla, DC. B Brazil. — P. arillata, Buch. 5 Neel- 

 gherries, Khassya Mountains. — P. crotalaridides, Buch. "b Mussoo- 

 ree. — Bredemeyera floribunda, Willd. B Caracas. — Securidaca virgata, 

 Swz. B v.^ Jamaica. — S. volubilis, L. Bv^ S. America. — S. hebeclada, 

 DC. B ^-y Brazil. — S. paniculata, Lam. v.^ B Cayenne. — Xanthophyl- 

 lum flavescens, Roxb. b Chittagong. — X. angustifolium, Wight, ill 1, 

 t. 23. b Courtallum. — X Roxburghianum, Wight, b Courtallum. 



ORDER LXI.— KRAMERIACE^, Mart.— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 87. 



Undorshrubs, of 1 genus, and 8 species, natives of S. America, 

 Mexico, and the W. Indies. — " The genus is of an extremely anomalous 

 structure, and remarkable for its tonic and excessively astringent qualities. 



