Salomonia.]} POLYGALACEM. 233 
nate in a cleft sheath, less often bee us suall adnate to petals ; 
oceasionally by abortion 1-locular, less often 3-5-locular superior 
ovary; style simple, curved sie usually capitate; ovules 1, 
rarely more in each cell, anatropous. Fruit generally a 2-celled, 
2- orien aoe? capsule; sometimes indehiscent 1-seeded, 
indehiscent carpels. Seeds pendulous, usually 
sophie; albumen fleshy, rarely scanty or 0; embryo straight, 
xial, 
Herbs or undershrubs; fruit a compressed, loculicidally 2-celled capsule ; 
seeds 2, albuminous ; petals gamophyllous ; stamens m monadelphous :— 
Sepals 5, the two inner hardly larger than the others; petals 3, lateral 
pair united to keel, upper pair absent; stamens WTS oonntase? Salomonia. 
Sepals 5, the two inner much larger than the others; petals 3, lateral 
pair united Bes keel, upper 0, or Paes by scales; stamens 8; 
woody at the base ........:.--erssssesrrrerstte Polygala. 
Shrubs or trees; fruit heroes l-celled; seeds solitary, without 
albumen; petals free, stamens 8 :— 
niante 
pair not united to keel, upper pair represented by PR stame 
monadelphous ; fruit with a samaroid wing ; climbers.....- urid 
Be 5, all subequal; petals 5, subequal, free; oe 8, free 
(2 hypogynous, 6 epipetalous) ; fruit not winged ; erect tree 
Xadikophyileon 
61. Salomonia Lour. 
Annual herbs, leafy and diffuse, or leafless and parasitic. 
Flowers minute, in dense terminal spikes. Sepals subequal, the 
2 inner i slightly larger than the others. Petals 3, adnate at 
the bas the staminal tube, the lowest keeled and somewhat 
hooded, tac 4-5, the filaments in their lower half connate in 
a sheath ; anthers with vated dehiscence. Ovary 2-locular, ar 
one veneRildiig ovule th each cell. Fruit ‘a laterally compree 
capsule, 2-celled, ésckte "loculieidally, margins toothed. Pods 
albuminous, with a faint strophiole or naked. 
. Satomonra optonarroura DC. ; F. B. I. i. 207. 
W. Bengal; Chota fas she Behar; Tirhut; N. Bengal; 
always rather scar 
A slender a Bee small leaves and strict, angular 
stems. 
