Gntw^^penna.] XIV. POLYGALE^. 81 



8. C. secundum (one-sided), Banlts in DO. Prod. i. 334 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 i. 145. A low much-branched rigid shrub, with the habit of some Kpacridar, the 

 branches softly pubescent. Leaves crowded, spreading, ovate, mucronate, % to 

 8 lines long, rigidly coriaceous, rough with minute tubercular hairs. Flowers 

 very small and numerous, in slender one-sided racemes of 1 to 2in., on very short 

 pedicels. Outer sepals short, very broad and obtuse ; inner sepals nearly three 

 times as long, although scarcely exceeding 1 line, apparently pink. Keel-petal 

 very broad, overlapping the narrow lateral ones. Style not winged. Capsule 

 fully ^in. long, truncate, 8-toothed, and scarcely 1 line broad at the top, tapering 

 into a slender stipes twice as long as the oblong part. Seed elongated, without 

 any appendage, the long coma apparently very deciduous, but not seen quite ripe. 



Hab.: Endeavour Eiver and Cape Flinders. 



4. C> prsecelsum (tallest of the genus), F. v. M. Fraym. xi. 2. A till 

 shrub, said to attain the height of 12ft., tlie leafy branchlets scabrous-pubetulent. 

 Leaves glabrous, crowded, oblong or broadly-linear and somewhat acute, ^ to fin. 

 long, under side pale. Flowers in short few or many-flowered corymbs. Bracts 

 deltoid-lanceolate. Sepals, outer ones free, rotund-deltoid ; inner ones pale, 3 

 lines long. Capsule oblong-cuneate, 4 or 5 lines long, IJ line broad at the top, 

 where it is emarginate. Seeds oblique ellipsoid, 1 to IJ line long, velvety, the 

 margins hairy but without appendage at the chalazal end. 



Hab.: Ranges about Eockingham Bay. 



5. C. retusum (form of capsule), Lahill. PI. Nov. Hnll. ii. 22 t. 160; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. i. 145. Glabrous, erect, shrubby and much-branched, often several 

 feet high, the branches mostly erect and not sulcate. Leaves oblong, obtuse, 

 rarely above Jin. long, flat but rather thick, the midrib not prominent. Racemes 

 short and dense, usually several in a terminal, leafy, fiat corymb or pyramidal 

 panicle. Outer sepals ovate, obtuse, about 1 line long ; inner sepals nearly 3 

 lines. Petals rather shorter^ the keel not horned. Capsule usually about 5 lines 

 long, emarginate, with rounded lobes, and about IJ line broad at the top, 

 narrowed into a stipes much longer than the broad part. Seeds comose, without 

 any membranous appendage. — DC. Prod. i. 334 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 32 ; F. 

 V. M. PI. Vict. i. 190. 



Hab.: Sandy coast lands of the southern parts of the colony. 



6. C. sylvestre (found in forests), Until, in Mitch. Trap. Austr. 8J2 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. i. 146. A glabrous and erect shrub of several feet, resembling C. 

 retusum., with which F. v. Mueller proposes to unite it, but much more glaucous. 

 Leaves larger, often fin. long and sometimes 9 lines broad, mucronate or 

 pungent, often concave above. Flowers rather larger, with broader outer sepals. 

 Capsule about fin. long. — F. v. M. Fragm. i. 49. 



Hab.: Open forest near Mounts Faraday and Pluto : sandy forest tableland on the Sutor 

 Eiver. 



7. C. ericinum (heath-like), BO. Prod. i. 834 ; Benth. FL Austr. i. 146. 

 Glabrous or minutely pubescent, usually erect, with rigid branches 1 to 2 or 'even 

 3ft. high, woody at the base. Leaves linear, erect or spreading, crowded or 

 rather distant, obtuse or acute, rarely above jin. long and usually shorter, the 

 margins recurved or more frequently quite revolute. Racemes usually several 

 and short in a leafy panicle, but longer and less dense than in 0. retusum, rarely 

 slender, and lengthening out to 3 or 4in. Outer sepals all free, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, f to 1 line long ; inner sepals about 3 lines. Keel-petal not horned. 

 Capsule 3 to 4 lines long, truncate, with rounded angles or entirely rounded at the 

 top, narrowed into a stipes usually longer than the broad part. SfeedS oblong, 

 comose,! with a very small membrane at the lower or chalazal end. — Hook. f. Fl, 



