202 XVI. POLYGALE^. (A. W. Bennett.) [Polygala. 



racemes very short, bracts subulate, -wings obovate. DC. Prodr. i. 327 ; 

 Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 185 ; Cai. 4176 ; and (3 pygmaea, Gat. 4176 D {a dwarf 

 form). Rm/U El. t. 19 C ; Hassk. in Miq. Mm. Bot. i. 164. 



Temp. Himalaya, alt. 4-7000 ft., from Chaniba to Sikkim ; Khasia Mts. 



Stems 4^8 in., erect or ascending, leafy: Leaves 1-2 in., tip rounded, muoronate or 

 Dot ; petiole very short. Racemes very short, dense-flowered, rarely temamal. _ Flowers 

 i-i in. long, very shortly pedicelled; bracts minute. Wings with. rounded tips, twice 

 as long as the capsule. Capsule broader than long, notched, strongly ciliate. See,is 

 hairy ; strophiole with 2 small ovate appendages. 



+t Rerbs. Wings petaloid, membranous. Strophiole without appendages. 



5. P. abyssinica, i^Vasere. in Mus. Senh. ii. 27.3 ; perennial, stems.^rect, 

 glabrous, leaves narrow-linear, racemes terminal long lax -flowered, bracts 

 ovate, seeds covered with long hairs. Oliv. FL Trop. Afric. i. 130. P. Ge- 

 rardiana, Wall. Cat. 4187 ; Hassk. in Miq. Ann. Mm. i. 173. P. scabra, 

 Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 33. 



Sdbteop. and Temp. Himalaya, alt. 3-8000 ft., from Marri to Kumaon, Jacqv£- 

 mont, &c. ; Punjab at Moultan, JSdgeioorth.—DmTms.'ASgha,msta,n; Abyssinia to 

 Natal. 



Branches 8-18 in., very numerous, slender, ascending from a woody stock, twiggy. 

 Leaves 4-| in., very narrow, acumin.nte, scarcely petioled. Baceme 2-6 in., veiy 

 slender, naked. Flowers \ in. long, secund or subsecund ; bracts cadncons, naiTow- 

 ovate, margins membranous as are the outer sepals. Wings obovate. obtuse, nerved. 

 Capsule obovate, emarginate, narrowly winged. Seeds densely hairy, hairs louger than 

 the seed ; strophiole galeate. 



6. P. leptalea, DC. Prodr. i. 32,'5 ; perennial, stems erect glabrous, 

 habit of P. abyssinica, but racemes dense-flowered, flowers smaller, seeds 

 silky. Wall. Cat. 4189 ; Bmth. Fl. Austral, i. 139 ; Hassk. in Miq. Ann. 

 Mus. i. 173. P. oligophylla, DC. Z.c. 325; Wall. Gat. 4188. P. discolor, 

 Ham. in Don Prodr. 199. 



Sdbteop. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Nipal; Behar ; Khasia Mts., ascending to 

 4000 ft ; NiLOHiEi Mts. ; Rangoon, Ava, Ceyloh. — Distrib. Australia. 



Very similar to P. abyssinica. Sterns deeply furrowed. Lower leaves often oblong- 

 lanceolate. Macemes 1-2 in., naked. Flower ^\ in., subsecund; bracts twice as 

 long as the buds, deciduous immediately after the flower expands. Wings much nar- 

 rowed below. Strophiole small galeate. 



7. P. Sohenackeriana, Fisch. <fc Mey. Ind Sem. Hort. Petrop. iv. 42 ; 

 hoary, stems many short from a perennial stock, leaves oblong lanceolate or 

 obovate-lanceolate obtuse or subacute, racemes short terminal many- 

 flowered, upper outer sepal much the largest obtuse, wings broad elliptic 

 obtuse very membranous, capsule very broadly winged, P. Hohenacke- 

 riana var. Stocksiana, Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 472. P. supina var. Hohenacke- 

 riana, Eegel PI. Eaddi, t. 7, 6, 12. 



Western Punjab, Attock, Vieary; Waziristan, ascending to 3500 ft., Stewart. — 

 DiSTBiB. Affghanistan and Beluchistan, Persia, Caucasus. 



Stems 2-3 in., much branched from the base, suberect, hoary or pubescent. Leaves 

 J-| in., pale, hoary, at length glabrous, nerveless. Raeemes ^-| in., subsessile, dense- 

 flowered. Flowers drooping, nearly J in. long ; pedicels short, bracts small. Sepals 

 with broad scarious margins, upper linear-obovate, 2 lateral very small oblong obtuse; 

 wings white, veins very delicate not anastomosing. Capsule J in. ; glabrous, orbicular, 

 with a broad membranous wing. Seeds densely silky ; strophiole with 2 appendages. 



8. P. perslcariaefolia, i)C.Pro(fr. i. 326 ; annual, erect, leaves linear 

 or eUiptic-lanceolate, racemes terminal and extra-axillary, pedicels slender, 



