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petaloid, wing shaped. Keel eonoave-galeate or. cristate. Carina 

 concave-galeate or cristate. Fruit drupaceous, 1, 2- spermons; seeds 

 exarillate. Other characters of Po'ygnla. — Eamified small shrubs, 

 usually spinescent ; leaves fasciculate subacicular ; flowers terminal 

 or more usually axillary, solitary or sometimes 2, 3-nate. {South 

 Africa}') 



5. Monnina E. and Pav.^ — Flowers nearly of Polygala ; sepals 

 lateral, large, petaloid, wing-shaped. Petals 3-5 ; the lateral very 

 small, scarcely visible, glanduliform or oftener ; the anterior (keel) 

 concave-galeate, entire or widely 3-lobed; the posterior small, more 

 or less adnate to staminal tube. Stamens 8 (of Poly gala) or 6 (the 

 2 lateral opnositipetalous wanting); anthers 1, 2-]ocular, dehiscing 

 by two short oblique clefts. Germen 2-locular, or sometimes 

 (posterior cell aborting) 1-loouIar. Other characters of Polygala. 

 Fruit 1, 2-spermous, dry, indehisoent, wingless, or at margin mem- 

 branous-winged, more rarely drupaceous ; seed exarillate, slightly 

 albuminous — Herbs, shrubs or small trees ; leaves alternate ; flowers 

 in spike-shaped racemes, terminal or more rarely axillary, 2-bracteo- 

 late. [Trop. and sub. trap. America.^) 



6. Comesperma Labill.* — Flowers nearly of Polygala ; sepals 

 2 larger, wing-shaped. Petals, the lateral more or less connate with 

 keel {Eucomesperma) or free {Bredemeyera ®). Stamens generally 8, 

 1-adelphous ; sheath cut at back. Germen and ovules of Polygala. 

 Capsule piano-compressed, subfleshy or membranous or coriaceous at 

 base, long cuneate-narrow, loculicidal at margin ; seeds glabrous or 

 pubescent above, aril oftener small or linear to raphe ; testa pilose with 

 very long descending hairs, on all sides or oftener close to hilum. 



1 Spec. 1, 2, Habv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 95. iv. 239 ; vii. 254. 



' K. et Pav. m. Per. Syst. i. 169.— DO. ■> Fl. Som.-B.oll. ii. 21, t. 159-163.— DC. 



Prodr. i. 338. — A. S. H. et Moa. in Mim. Prodi: i. 334.— A. S. H. et Moa. in Mgm Mm. 



Mm. xvii. 352, t. 30, fig. 2; xix. 333.— xvii. 351, t. 29, fig. 2; xix. 329.— Ehdl. Oen. 



Spach, Suit. d. JBufon, Tii. 147.— Endl. Gen. n. 5649.— H. Bu. in Paper Fam. Nat. 310.— B. 



n. 5652. — H. Bn. in Adansonia,i. 175; in Payer H. Gen. 138, 974, n. 6. — MiQ. in Ann. Mm. 



Fam. Nat. 310.— B. H. Gen. 139, n. 12.— JECebe- Liigd.-Bdt. i. 184. 

 andra Bonpl. in Berl. Mag. (1802) 40. = W. in Neue Schr. Ges. Nat. Berl. iii. 406, 



■' Spec, about 50 ; H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. t. 4.— DC. Prodr. i. 340.— A. S. H. et Moq. 



V. 409, t. 601-605.— A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. op. cit. xix. 337.— Endl. Gen. n. 565i.—B. H. 



59, t. 93-95.— C. Gat. Fl. Chil.i. 239 Hook. Gen. 138, 974, n. I.—Catoooma Bbnth. in Booh. 



et Arn. in Beech. Toy. Bot. t. 6.— Ta. et Pl. in Journ. Bot. iv. 401.— Endl. Gen. n. 5648 ; 



Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 4, xvii. ^136.— Miq. in (Suppl. iii. 96) .—Bualania Phil, in Linnaia. 



Ann. Mm. Lugd.-Bat.i. Wl.—Bot. Mag. t. 3122. xxxiii. 18 (ex B. H. loc. cit.). 

 — Walp. Bep. i. 245 ; ii. 769 ; Ann. i. 75 ; ii. 85 ; 



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