CRAIB—POLYGALA FURCATA, ROYLE, AND ITS ALLIES. 187 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Flowers purple or pink or white and pink- -tipped : 
pe: distinctly pubescent but not 
tubercled 1. P. Tatarinowiti. 
Flowers desta seed glabrous or "pubescent, dis- 
— tubercled. 
Seed bros 
Seed (without aril) 1.25 mm. long with com- 
paratively few large tubercles : capsule 
Ee 5 mm. long, wing less than one-fourth 
eadth of capsule 22. Lace, 
Seed (without aril) 0.75 mm. ‘long with man 
small beige: capsule (excluding 
Wing) I.5 m Lea te wi "8 one half- 
breadth of caps sule 3. P. cardiocarpa. 
Seed pubescent. 
Seed with large black shining development 
. chalaza equal in length to abou 
one-half the seed . 4. P. umbonata. 
Seed with scarcely prominent black shining 
mbo at ieee. or with a pale-coloured 
productio 
Capsule rabaibecie: ‘ : : Aa oe furcata. 
Capsule oblong ' ; E 6. P. hyalina. 
SYNONYMY AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 
ac P. Tatarinowii, Regel in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc., xxxiv, pt. ii, 
P- 523 (1861) ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
XXiil, p. 62. 
P. triphylla, Royle, Il., t. 1gD non D. Don nec Burm. f. ; 
Forbes et Hemsl., l.c., pro parte. 
P. triphylla, var. 1 Triphylla proper, Benn. in Hook. f., FI. 
Brit. Ind., i, p. 201, excl. syn. P. hyalina. 
5 daccoeabasun Hamiltonti, Hassk. in Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. 
Lugd. Bat., i, p. 151, quoad descr. sed syn. Polygala 
triphylla excl. 
China. Pekin, Carles,23! Shantung, Clemens, 1427! Yun- 
nan, Forrest, gor! Maire, 2688! 732! Henry, 9343! Delavay, 
259! Delavay ! Hupeh, Wilson, 2533 ! Henry, 2486 ! 
N.W. India, Stewart! Reid! Simla, Lady Dalhousie! Watt, 
9377! Crookshank! Bashahr, Lace,1058! Chamba, Lace, 1753! 
1846 ! 
2. P. Lacei, Craib in Kew Bull., 1916, p. 260. 
Siam. Doi Chieng Dao, 5500-5900 ft., on rocks, Kerr, 
2889 (Herb. Kew }). 
Upper Burma. Ruby Mines, Lace (Herb. Edin. !). 
Yunnan. Puerh cliffs, 4500 ft., Henry, 9303A (Herb. Edin. !). 
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