POLYGALA.] POLYGALE^. • 61 



A small handsome tree. Branches often in verticils. Leaves crowded 

 towards the ends of the branchlets, 2-8 in. long, lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous, shining, pale below, thinly 

 coriacecus, margins waved. Flowers many, small, pubescent, in terminal 

 compound corymbs, yellowish. Sepals ovate, obtuse or acute, concave, 

 ciliate at the apex. Petals free, linear-oblong, obtuse. Ovary pubes- 

 cent. Capsule ^ in. in diam., glabrous, rugose ; valves hard, broadly 

 ovate. Seeds about 6, with a soft scarlet aril-like integument. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range. Distbib. : Subtrop. Himalaya from 

 the Jumna to Sikkim, ascending to 5,000 ft. ; Khasia Hills and Mishmi ; 

 also in W. & S. India. Flowers from January to June. 

 2. P, eriocarpum. Boyle III. Bot. Him. 77 ; F. B. I. i. 199 ; Brand. 



For. Fl. 20. 



A small tree with spreading subverticillate branches. Leaves, young 

 branches and inflorescence yellow-tomentose. Leaves 3-8 in. long, ovate 

 obovate or broadly lanceolate, obtuse or acute. Flowers | in long, in 

 short dense terminal corymbose panicles, pale yellow. Sepals lanceo- 

 late, densely tomentose. Petals free, linear, erect. Ovary tomentose ; 

 Style short, glabrous. Capsule \ in. in diam., tomentose ; valves broadly 

 ovate, woody, many-seeded. 



Dehra Dun. Distbib.: Outer Himalaya from the Jumna to the Sarda, 

 up to 6,500 ft. Flowers March and April. 



XIV.-POLYGALEJE. 



Annual or perennial herbs, erect or scandent shrubs, or timber trees. 

 Leaves alternate, rarely whorled, simple, entire, occasionally reduced 

 to scales, or ; stipules 0. Flowers irregular, 2-sexual, S-bracteate. 

 Sepals 5, unequal, 2 inner often petaloid, imbricate in bud. Petals 

 5 or 3, distinct, unequal, the inferior usually keel-shaped. Stamens 

 usually 8, hjpogynous ; filaments united into a sheath, rarely 

 distinct ; anthers usaally opening by terminal pores. Ovary free, 

 l«3-celled ; style generally curved ; stigma capitate ; ovules 1 or 

 more in each cell. Fruit generally a 2-celled 2-seeded loculicidal 

 capsule. Seeds usually strophiolate, albuminous. 



POLYGALA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 200. 



Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves, alternate. Sepals usually persist- 

 ent ; the 2 inner larger and usually petaloid. Petals 3, united 

 at the base into the staminal sheath ; inferior keel-shaped, usually 

 crested. Stamens 8 ; filaments united \ way up into a split sheath ; 

 anthers opening by pores. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 1 in each cell, 

 pendulous. Capsule 2-celled and 2-seeded, opening loculicidally. 

 Seeds strophiolate and albuminous. 



