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PLATE CCCLXX. 
POLYGALA 
LERE PIF OLAS. 
Cylindric-leaved Milkwort. 
CLASS XVII. 
ORDER III. 
DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Eight Chives. 
‘ ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx 5-phyllus; foliolis duobus alzformi- 
bus, coloratis. Legumen obcordatum, 
biloculare. 
SPECIFIC 
Potyeata, floribus cristatis, racemis termi- 
nalibus paucifloris, alis calycinis ovatis 
acutiusculis multinerviis, caule fruticoso, 
foliis lineari-subulatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 882. 
Cur 5-leaved; with two of the leaves like 
wings, coloured. Pod 
shaped, two-celled. 
inverse heart- 
CHARACTER. 
PotycaLa, with cristated flowers, racemes 
terminal few-flowered, calyx-wings ovate 
acutish many-nerved, shrubby stem, and 
linear-awl-shaped leaves. 
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Descriptio. Ramuli filiformes, patuli, canescentes. Folia sparsa, szepe conferta, recurva, et falcata, 
linearia, obtusa, marginibus revolutis, ut in Erica; supra canescentia: subtus cana. Racemi 2—5- 
flori. Peduncult pubescentes. 
* ee REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. : 
A leaf. 
The under surface of the same magnified. 
The exterior part of the cup. 
One of the wing-like leaves of the cup, outside. 
The same inside. 
The chives, keel and banner spread open. 
The keel and its crest detached. 
The same magnified. 
. The chives and banner. 
10. The same magnified. 
11. The seed-bud and pointal. 
12. The same magnified. 
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Our piate represents the true species of Polygala, which we promised in our account of P. stipulacea. 
It is a green-house shrub, and rather delicate ; yet may, with care, be propagated by cuttings; but is at 
present very scarce in this country. Its native country is the Cape. Our drawing was taken froma 
plant in the Clapham collection in the summer of 1803. 
