1870.] On some new or imperfectly Icnoivn Indian plants. 63 



aculeis brevissimis, rectis, patentibus armatus ; folia variabilia, 

 obovata, oblonga v. subcuneato-obovata, basi rotundata, acuta v. 

 obtusa, breve et gracile petiolata, £ — 1, raro 1£ poll, longa, retusa 

 v. obtusa, chartacea v. eoriacea, juniora dense fulvo-pubescentia, 

 mox glabrescentia, nervis subtus prominentibus ; flores parvi, 

 solitarii v. gemini, pedicellis 6-8 lin. longis dense fulvo-tomentosis 

 suffulti, vulgo in apicibus ramulorum brevium tomentosorum siti 

 et saepius racemum v. corymbum spurium formantes ; sepala dense 

 fulvo-tomentosa ; petala extus glabra, intus dense lanata, circ. 4 lin. 

 longa ; gynophorum crassum cum ovario dense fulvo-tomentosum ; 

 baccse pisi maximi magnitudine, puberulse, ovatae, apiculatse, 2- 

 loculares, loculis monospermis. — Siam, near the village Kankian, 

 Eadburi (Teysmannin Hb. Bog.) 



VIOLA CEjE. 



8. AlSOdeia longiracemOSa, n. sp.— Arbuscula parva v. 

 frutex glaberrima ; folia decidua, oblongo-lanceolata, breve et gra- 

 ciliter petiolata, utrinque acuminata, serrata, chartacea, glabra ; 

 racemi elongati, 3-5-poll. longi, parce puberuli ; nores parvi, vires- 

 cente-albi, pedicellis strictis longiusculis suffulti ; calyx puberulus ; 

 capsulse pedunculatse, glabrae. — Martaban (Dr. B r a n d i s.) 



POLYGALEJE. 



9. Polygala arvensis, Willd. — There exists great uncertainty 

 amongst the different varieties of the above species and others near- 

 ly allied to them, especially with regard to P. triflora of L i n n 4. 

 Mr. Edgeworth has seen the authentic specimens of P. triflora, 

 and declares them to be P. rosmarinifolia. If this be the case, 

 P. arvensis would really have to be identified with P. triflora, as Dr. 

 Anderson has done in his " Florula Adenensis ;" but P. Vahli- 

 ana, erioptera and their allies cannot, in that case, be connected 

 with it, on account of the very different structure of the wings. 

 By the form of the latter many Indian forms, now described under 

 different names, might be brought together into natural groups. 

 Thus we should obtain for the group with thick herbaceous 

 green and acuminated sepal-wings, P. glomerata and P. arvensis 

 with a long series of synonyms, all these having short racemes > 



