MONOGRAPHIA POLYGALACEARUM. 35 
P. VERONICÆFOLIA, F. Muell. 
Alæ obovato-ellipticæ subacutæ nervis liberis: petala superiora haud falcata ; 
crista parva ; stigmata contigua ; arillus trilobus brevis, semine triplo brevior ; andro- 
ceum subdiadelphum. 
F. Müller. Pt. Vict. I, p. 184; P. japonica Benth. fl. austral. I, p. 439, non 
Houtt. 
Tab. nostra XXVIIL. fig. 21. 
Pedicelli bracteis minutis multo longiores. Sepala exteriora ovata, obtusa, 
ciliata. Alæ obovatæ vel ellipticæ, subacutæ, nervis haud anastomosantibus, quam 
corolla breviores, glabræ. Carinæ crista parva, appendiculo quoque in cca. 5 fila- 
menta bifida inciso. Antheræ in 2 phalangibus prorsum in tubo staminali sessiles. 
Ovarium obovatum stipitatum, glabrum. Stylus leviter adscendens. Stigmata conti- 
gua, forficata (v. fig. 21°). Capsula suborbicularis emarginata, late alata, alis 
longior et multo latior. Semina ovoidea, pilis brevibus hirsuta. Caruncula triloba, 
lobis semine fere triplo brevioribus. 
Hab. in Australia septentrionali : Queensland, Dawson and Brisbane (F. Müller) 
(v.s. in Hb. DC.), N. S. Wales, Botany Bay (R. Brown Parmatta ad Blue mountains), 
et in umbrosis prope Bathurst; Port Stephens; Hastings and Maclayriver; New 
England. — Victoria in graminosis vel sabulosis ad Goulburn et Oven fl, 
A P. japonica, stigmatibus, seminibus et crista sat diversa sed affinis. 
P. KHASIANA, Hassk. 
Caules haud duplices sed omnes similes ; folia lanceolata vel lanceolato-elliptica 
utrinque acuta ; racemi supraxillares vel oppositifolii pauciflori, alæ ellipticæ obtu- 
sissimæ, nervis liberis; petala linguiformia obtusa; stigmata contigua haud ut in 
P. japonica (floribus normalibus) remota. 
Hassk. in Miq. an. Mus. I, p. 176. 
Tab. nostra XXVIIL, fig. 22. 
Radix tenuis, griseo-lutea. Caulis vel caules plures, tenues, basi lignosi simplices 
vel basi ramosi, teretes, levissime strati et puberuli, foliosi, 5-10 cm. longi vel forte 
