160 THE FLORA OF THE NOKTHERN TERRITORY , 



POLYGALACE-ffil. 



Sepals nearly equal. Anthers 4 or 5. Flowers minute, in terminal spikes. 

 — 3. Salomonia. 



Inner sepals larger and petal-like. Anthers 8. 



Capsule ovate or orbicular, scarcely contracted at the base. Seeds 



not comose. — 1. Polygala. 

 Capsule cuneate, very narrow at the base. Seed hairs forming a 

 long corona. — 2. Bredemeyera. 



1. POLYGALA, Link. 



Racemes long, terminal. Inner sepals petaloid, 'obtuse. Crest fringed. 

 Stigma simple, terminal, capitate. 3. P. leptalea. 



Racemes short, very dense and hirsute, terminal or lateral. Inner sepals 

 herbaceous, acuminate. Crest 2-horned. Style with 1 erect lobe and a lower 

 large glandular stigma. — 2. P. eriocephala. 



Racemes lateral. Inner sepals herbaceous, mucronate, usually falcate. 

 Crest fringed. Style with 1 large hooked or re flexed stigmatic cone. 

 Racemes shorter than the leaves, or if longer, very dense. 

 Leaves orbicular. — 4. P. orbicularis. 

 Leaves from obovate to linear. 



Capsules broadly winged and ciliate. — 5. P. rhinanthoides. 

 Capsules wingless and glabrous or nearly so. — 1 . P. arvensis. 

 Racemes slender, much longer than the leaves. — 6. P. stenoclada. 



1. P. arvensis. Willd. — Upper Victoria River, F. v. Mueller; Goulbum 

 Island, A. Cunningham ; N. Coast, R. Brown. Australian Milkwort. 



2. P. eriocephala, F. v. M. — ^Upper Victoria River, P. v. Mueller. 



3. P. leptalea, B.C. — ^Upper Victoria River, F. v. Mueller ; Port Essing- 

 ton, Armstrong. 



4. P. orbicularis, Benth. — S. Goulburn Island, A. Cunningham ; Mel- 

 ville Island, Fraser ; N. Coast, Armstrong. 



5. P. rhinanthoides, Soland. — Upper Victoria River, F. v. Mueller. 



6. P. stenoclada, Benth. — Upper Victoria River, F. v. Mueller. 



P. persicarifolia, B.C., and P. Tepperi, F. v. M. ; recorded from North 

 Australia (in National Herbarium Census). 



2. BREDEMEYERA, Willd. 1801. 



( Comesperma, Labill . 1 80 6 . ) 



Capsule sessile. Seeds filling the cells, without a coma. Stems leafless. — 

 1. B. aphylla. 



ft- Capsule narrowed into a stipes, containing the long coma of seeds, which 

 onlyjoccupy the broad part of the cells. 

 Pubescent. — 2. B. secunda. 

 Glabrous. — 3. B. sylvestre. 



1. B. aphylla (B. Br.), Chodat. — Islands of the N. Coast, R. Brown. 



2. B. secunda (Banks), Chodat. — Islands of the N. Coast, R. Bro^^^l. 



3. B. sylvestre (Lindl), Chodat.— 10 miles W. of Camp III., G. F. HiU 

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