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



16. P. g'lomerata, Lour. Fl. Cock. 426 ; stems tall erect, or ascending, 

 leaves large from broad-ovate and oblong to elliptic lanceolate and linear, 

 racemes extra-axillary very short, 2-3-flowered, flowers drooping, outer 

 sepals acuminate, wings herbaceous hatchet-shaped acuminate and awned, 

 capsule narrowly winged strongly ciliate. DC. Frodr. i. 326. P. densiflora, 

 Blume Bijd. 69 ; Eassk, in Miq. Mus. Bot. L 166. P. depauperata, Wadl. 

 Gat. 4180. 



Eastern Himalaya, hot valleys of Sikkim, alt. 1-6000 ft. ; Oodb ; Assam ; Khasia 

 Mts., alt. 0-5000 ft. ; Tenasseeim. — Distkib. Eastern Archipelago, China. 



Stems many from a woody stock, 1-2 ft. high, densely pubescent, curved. Leaves 

 very variable, lJ-24 in., flat, glabrous or hairy, not veined, sessile or shortly petjoled, 

 sometimes cordate. Racemes scattered, small ; peduncles shorter than the flowers, 

 which are J-i in. long, green. Outer sepals subequal, acute, ciliate. Crest very small. 

 Capsule |- in. broad and long, 2-Iobed. Seeds large, silky, obovoid ; strophiole with S short 

 appendages. — Thwaites' specimen named ghmerata resembles it in habit, but differs 

 totally in the capsule and seed ; they no doubt belong to a large state of P. japaaica 

 (see var. elata). * 



DODBTFUL SPECIES. 



p. UnarifoUa, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 877 (linearifolia, DC. Prodr. i 326). 



P. proeunibens, Eoth. Nov. Sp. 329; DC. Prodr. i. 326.— Ind. Or. 



P. varians, Mart. DC. I.e. 382. — Bengal. 



P. umbrosa. Mart. DC. I.e. — Bengal. 



P. macropetala, Hassk. I.e., perhaps P. japonica, var. 2. 



2. SAIiOmONZA, Lour. 



Leafy diffuse annuals, or (Sect. Epirhizanthes) parasites, with leaves 

 reduced to scales. Floviers minute, in dense terminal spikes. Sepals nearly 

 equal, 2 interior somewhat larger. Petals 3, united at the base with the 

 staminal tube, the inferior keel-shaped, galeate, not crested. Stamens 4-5, 

 filaments united for their lower half into a sheath ; anthers opening by 

 pores. Ovary 2-celled, each cell with one pendulous ovule. Capside much 

 compressed laterally, 2-celled, loculicidal, margins toothed. Seeds albu- 

 minous, not or scarcely strophiolate.—DisTRiB. Species about 8, natives of 

 Eastern tropical Asia and tropical Australia. 



Sect. L Salomonla, DC. Stems leafy. 



1. S. cantoniensis, Lour. Fl. Coch. 14 ; stem winged, leaves cordate- 

 ovate shortly petioled, spikes rather lax, capsule with triangular teeth 

 Wall. Cat. 4192 ; DC. Frodr. i. 334 ; Benth. Fl.Hongh. 44 ; Miq. Flor. JVed. 

 Ind. i. pt. 2, 127 ; Hassk in Miq. Ann. Mus. i. 144. S. subrotunda, Eassk. 

 I.e. — Salomonia, sp. 3 in Griff. JVotul. iv. 539. 



Easteen Bengal ; Assam ; Khasia Mis., alt. 0-4000 ft. ; Eastebn PENiNStrLA.^ 

 DiSTEiB. Malayan Archipelago. 



A weedy erect much-branched diffuse annual, 3-6 in. Leaves large, paler beneath. 

 yStei/ces numerous, terminal, lax below, denser above. Ptoc*s minute, early deciduous. 

 Flowers minute, quite sessile. Sepals linear-subulate. Petals united below, the two 

 lateral shoiter than ihe keel. Capsule very small, broader than long, armed with a row 

 of recurved triangular teeth. Seeds black, shining, not strophiolate. 



2. S. ciliata, DC. Prodr. i. 334; stem furrowed, leaves sessile cordate- 

 amplexicaul ciliate, spike very dense, capsule with filiform teeth. S. cor- 



