88 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



— Shrubs, iindershrubs or herbs, rarely parasitical discoloured, 

 bearing scales [EpirMsanthes) ; leaves alternate, opposite or verticil- 

 late, simple, usually entire, exstipulate ; flowers in simple or more 

 rarely compound racemes or spikes, sometimes short capituliform ; 

 inflorescence terminal, lateral, or more rarely axillary ; pedicels often 

 articulate at base, 1-bracteate; bractlets usually 2. {All hot and 

 temperate regions.) See p. 71. 



2. Phlebotsenia Geiseb.^ — Mowers nearly of Polygala ; sepals 

 the 2 lateral larger wing-shaped. Petals 5 ; 2 exterior free or 

 slightly adnate to staminal tube, separated from carina ; carina longer 

 than the posterior, connate with it, concave-galeate and cristate. 

 Stamens 8 ; sheath open at back, high, adnate to petals. Gynseceum 

 of Polygala. Capsule 2-locular, at margin on both sides 2-winged ; 

 wings 4, vertical membranous ; 2 anterior much larger. Other 

 characters of Polygala. — Glabrous shrubs ; leaves alternate, at base 

 cuneate,' rigid, oblique, subparallel reticulate-venose; flowers in 

 short terminal or lateral racemes.^ {Cuba.^) 



3. Muraltia Neck.* — Flowers nearly of Po^y^aZa; sepals in pairs 

 unequal glumaceous. Stamens 7, 8, in sheath, connate above 

 fissure. Germen and other characters of Polygala. Capsule submem- 

 branous compressed. Apex 4-gibbous or 4-cornate, sometimes 

 truncate, loculicidal at margin. Seeds albuminous thick arUlate. — 

 Eamified shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves alternate or fasciculate, small, 

 rigid, often aciculate ; flowers axillary, solitary, subsessile. {South 

 Afriea.^) 



4. Mundtia K." — iFlowers nearly of Polygala ; sepals 2 large 



' Fl. Wright. Cub. 156; Cat. PI. Cub. 14.— 137, n. i.—Heistoria Beeq. Fl. Cap. 185 



B. H. Gen. 138, n. 8. (nee L.). 



^ A genus much, tetter made a section * Spec, ad SO, Audr. Bot. Sepos. t. 363, 



of Polygala (?), nearly related to Badiera, 424 (Polygala). — Paxt. Mag. Bot. iv. 149, 



diflfers especially by its lateral petals, exterior ic. — Hakt. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 95. — Miq. in 



sub-equally long sepals, long and narrow at Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 182. — Walp. Ann. vii. 



baae, with winged fruit ; wings four, in pairs, 249. 



very unequal. ^ Nov. Oen. et Spec. v. 392, not. {Mundia). 



3 Spec. 1. P. cuneata Gkiseb. loc. cit.— -DC. Fi-odr. i. 337.— A. S. H. et Moa. in 



"Walp. Ann. vii. 263. Mem. Mus. xvii. 352; xix. 332 (part). — Spach. 



1832.— DC. Prodr. i. 335.— Suit. & Buffon, vii. 145.— Endl. Oen. n. 6651. 



A. S. H. et Moa. in Mem. Mus. xvii. 352, — B. H. Gen. 137, 974, n. 5.— H. Bn. 



t. 29, fig. 4 ; xix. 331.— Spaoh, Suit. & in Payer Fam. Nat. SlO.—Nylandiia Dvmort. 



Buffon, vii. 141. — Endl. Gen. n. 6650. — Comm. 31. 

 H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 178. — B. H, Gen. 



