PLATE CCCLXIII. 
POLYGALA STIPULACEA. 
Stipuled: Milkwort. 
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CLASS XVI. ORDER IIL. 
* “ DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA Two Brotherhoods. Eight Chives. 
Deosaieras GENERIC. CHARACTER. 
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Catyx 5-phyllus: foliolis duobus _ “ae aad 
coloratis. Legumen obeordatum, 
lare. + 4 : me 
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Cur 5-leaved, with two of the leaves like wings, 
coloured. Pod inverfe heart-fhaped, two- 
celled. 3 5 
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" SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Polygala. Floribus imberbibus ee, caule 
fuffruticofo, foliis ternis linearibus acutis. 
Polygala. With beardlefs lateral flowers, a 
rubby ftem, and ternate, linear, acute 
‘ . - Willd. Sp. pl. 892. Se leaves, 
a a 
a cd Descriptio. Suffrutex, ramaliz fubdivaricatis, filiformibus, elongatis, viibetoenaiiege. Folia fafci- 
we -___culata, linearia, obfolete mucronata, 3-6 in fingulo fafciculo; infimo latiore, breviore, ftipu- 
_-liforme. Flores P. HeltSialaan minores, axillares, folitarii, vel fubinde binati; feffiles. 
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A rare Cape fpecies recently introduced t to the “Hibbertian Colleétion, where our drawing was taken 
laft fummer. It is a greenhouse fhrub of. the more porate kind ; and is propagated, but not very 
readily, by cuttings. 3 
n the ftructure of the flowers this {pecies aeters exaélly with the common Polygala Heifteria, 
r which Linnzus originally made a diftin& genus from Polygala; but afterwards united them. In 
= keeping them diftin@ we think he did right; bu 1g in uniting them. Our readers will have an 
pees of judging for themfelves in our nex number, in which will be figured a true Polygala, 
her of the Heisteria family; with proper diffeGtions of each. 
ceri was aed by Linnaeus in us hence celebrated German fargeon Heifter, 
