1890.] Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 131 



as large as the corolla. Keel hooded. Capsule sub-orbicular, entire, 

 narrowly 2-winged. Wall. Cat. 4182 (species). 



Perak. At low elevations. 



Sect. III. Herbs, sometimes woody at the base. Calyx persistent. 

 Keel crested. Seeds albuminous. 



3. Poltgala leptalea, DO. Prod. I, 325. A perennial glabrous 

 herb, the root-stock woody. Stems erect, rigid, boldly striate, few- 

 leaved. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, '5 to '75 in. long. Racemes 

 1 to 3 in. long, elongating with age, slender. Flowers '2 to '25 

 in. long. Capsule ovoid, emarginate at the apex, narrowly winged ; 

 Hook. fil. PL Br. Ind. I, 202. Benth. PI. Austral, i. 139 ; Hassk. in Miq. 

 Ann. Mus. i. 173. P. oligochylia, DO. I. o. 325 ; Wall. Cat. 4188. P. 

 discolor, Ham. in Don Prodr. 199. 



Mcobar Islands. Distrib. British India, Ceylon. 



4. Polygala brachystachta, Bl. Bijdr. 69. A slender, prostrate 

 or sub-erect herb. Branches puberulous, terete below, angled above, 

 4 to 6 in. long. Leaves with very short petioles, linear- lanceolate, bristle- 

 pointed, glabrous, *4 in. long, and "05 in. broad. Hacemes much longer 

 than the leaves, few-flowered, slender, axillary or extra-axillary ; pedi- 

 cels nearly as long as the flowers. Flowers "15 in. long ; lateral sepals 

 obovate-oblong. Keel narrow below ; the apex suddenly dilated, 3-lobed. 

 Capsule sub- orbicular, the apex emarginate, the edges ciliolate. Hassk. 

 in Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 157 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. ii, p. 125. 

 P. chinensis, Linn., var. brachystachya. 



Malacca, Griffith. Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



5. Polygala telephioides, Willd. Sp. PI. iii, 876. A prostrate 

 annual with a woody root. Stems 2-4 in. long, pubescent or glabrous. 

 Leaves glabrous, often imbricate, fleshy, sessile, obovate or oblong, 

 obtuse or acute, the margins recurved, the base slightly narrowed, the 

 midrib prominent ; nerves obsolete ; length '5 to "65 in. Flowers '1 in. 

 long, in short, extra-axillary racemes. Capsules '1 in. long, sub-orbicular, 

 notched at apex, not winged. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 205. DC. Prod. 

 I, 332 ; W. & A. Prod. I, 36, ? P. serpylhfolia, Poir. Diet. V, 499 ; DC. 

 1. c. 326. P. buxiformis, Hassk. in Miq. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 161. 



Nicobar Islands. Distrib. Peninsular India, Ceylon, Malayan Ar- 

 chipelago, Philippines, China. 



2. Salomonia, Lour. 



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



reduced to scales. Flowers minute, in dense terminal spikes. Sepals 



nearly equal, 2 interior somewhat larger. Petals 3, united at the bas e 



with the staminal tube; the inferior keel-shaped, galeate, not crested. 



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