398 MONOGRAPHIA POLYGALACEARUM. 
Semina ellipsoidea, breviter et sparse pilosa. Arillus superpositus, exappendiculatus, 
loculum haud explens. 
Species parva habitat Indiam, Nepaul (Wallich v. s. in Hb. Prod.). 
P. LONGIFOLIA, Poir. 
Graminea, elata : folia linearia vel acicularia, longa ; racemi juveniles comosi ; 
alæ ellipticæ, obtusissimæ ; capsula alis latis parte superiore marginata itaque 
obcordato-cuneata. 
Poir. Dict. 5, p. 501 ; DC. Prod. I, 325. P. leptalea Wall. Cat.'n° 4189 ; Benth. 
fl. austr. 1, 439 ; Hassk. in Miq. an. Mus. |. c. 1, 173; Bennet in Hooker fl. of 
brit. Ind. I, p. 202, pp. 
Tab. nostra XXVIIT, fig. 26. 
Caules sæpius longissimi, ad 50 em. longi, sulcati vel striati, glabri, ad 4-2 mm. 
crassi, tenues, simplices vel rarius ramosi. Folia linearia, acuta, “/,, !/, etc. mu- 
cronata, sæpius marginibus subrevolutis, pauca. Racemus terminalis, tenuis, juve- 
nilis comosus, ad 2-3- em. longus, rachi floribus dilapsis asperata, ad 8 cm. 
longa. Flores brevissime pedicellati, pedicello vix 0,5 mm. longo, ad 3 mm. longi. 
Bracteæ utin P. oligophylla DC. Characteres flori ut in spec. præced. sed alæ ma- 
jores, subellipticæ, obtusæ, apice rotundatæ nec cuneate attenuatæ. Capsula margi- 
nibus latis instructa. Semina cylindrica, breviter pilosa ; arillus semine superpositus 
trilobus. 
Habitat in Asia meridionali : Khasia, reg. trop. alt. 300-1000 mm., Java, Aus- 
tralia sept. in Port Darwin. 
A præcedente statura, alis, capsulis sat diversa. 
P. WIGHTIANA, Wight et Arn. 
Radix perpendicularis ; caules tenues erecti, glaberrimi ; folia linearia, glabra ; 
glaucescentia, margine tenuiter et eleganter denticulata; racemi elongati ; petala 
superiora limbo subquadrangulari, tenuiter unguiculata. 
Wight et Arnott in Prodr. Fi. Ind. I, 36; Hassk. in Miq. An. Mus. Bot. I, 
p. 170. Walp. Rep. I, p. 233, 18 ; D. Dietr. Synop. IV, p. 894, 27. 
P. Wightiana, Wallich cat. n° 4190 ; Wight cat. n. 134. 
Tab. nostra XXVIII, fig. 27-29. 
