482 MONOGRAPHIA POLYGALACEARUM. 
Tab. nostra XXXV, fig. 17-28. 
Basi leviter subfrutescens. Caules basi ramosi duri nudiusculi superne parce 
ramosi, tenues striati, puberuli 0,5 ad 0,8 mm. crassi, 15-30 cm. alti. Folia infe- 
riora et sæpe etiam caulis medii, obovata vel late obovato-spathulata, obtusa vel 
mucronata, tenuia,infima sæpissime minora sensim versus apicem caulis augescen- 
tia, superiora variabilia, ovato-elliptica # # 1 ££ mm. vel minora, vel lanceolata, 
leviter, mucronata, conferta interdum suborbicularia glabrescentia vel pilis paucis 
conspersa. Racemi terminales breves, paucï et laxiflori vel multiflori. Bracteæ ellip- 
ticæ membranaceæ vel ovatæ, pedicello duplo vel triplo breviores. Pedicelli ad 
3 mm. longi. Alæ inæquilaterales subellipticæ vel suborbiculares, obtusæ, submu- 
cronatæ, nervis valde ramosis vix anastomosantibus, corollam superantes glabræ. 
1, 7, mm. unguiculo brevi vel late ovatæ. Sepala exteriora inæqualia, inferius multo 
majus basi geniculatum, margine ciliata. Tubus corollæ elongatus. Crista speciosa 
multifida petala superiora valde superans. Petala superiora per ‘/, cum tubo sta- 
minali connata, falcata, limbo ovato, ungui longo. Antheræ sessiles monadelphæ vel 
subdiadelphæ glabræ. Ovarium breviter stipitatum. Stylus multo longior filiformis 
curvatus. Stigma superius dentiforme inferius rotundatum, parva. Capsula obovato- 
elliptica irregularis, alis inæqualibus mediocribus alata. Semina subpyriformia bre- 
viter hirsuta. Arillus trilobus in semine equitans lobis subæqualibus, duobus latera- 
libus papyraceis, semine fere triplo brevioribus. 
Habitat in fruticetis et fagetis montium ad Brussam (Asia minor). (Pichler pl. 
exscc. Fl. Rumel. et Bythyn. 61.) Tab. nostra XXXVW, fig. 27-31. 
cum formis et varietatibus in Thracia, Tauria, Anatolia, Armenia, Cilicia, Syria, 
Palæstina, Persia boreali, Græcia, Bosnia, Hungaria merid. 
Variat racemis paucifloris et alis minus elatis, foliis ovato-ellipticis angustioribus 
(E Libano, Boiss.), alis lanceolato-ovatis, habitu minore (Fontenay n° 10 e Cons- 
tantinopol.) Olympus (Pichl. 16). (De Heldr. 2855.) (P. Gundelsheimeri Koch. in 
Linn. 1846, forma minor alis late oblongis). 
Var. andrachnoides Willdn. 
A spec. genuina habitu minore, foliis minoribus obovato-rotundatis confertis 
interdum oppositis, floribus minoribus, alis ellipticis oblongis acutis vel obtusis, 
caulibus diffusis decumbentibus, capsulis anguste marginatis. 
P. telephioides Boiss. Diagn. Ser. II. V. p. 49; P. supina B pauciflora Boiss. fl. 
or.; P. recurvata Celak. Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1872, p. 109; 1884, p. 206-211. 
