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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. 
Kvel crested. Sixth albuminous. 
3. Polygala lkptalea, DC. 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. Jiaceuies 
1 to 3 in. long, elongating with age, slender. Flmvers '2 to *25 
in. long. Capsule ovoid, emarginate at the apex, narrowly winged ; 
Hook. fil. FL Br. Ind. I, 202. Benth. FI Austral, i. 139 ; Hassk. in Miq. 
Ann. Mns. i. 173, P. oligophylla, DC. 1. c. 325 ; Wall. Cat. 4188. P. 
discolor, Ham. in Don Prodr. 199. 
Nieobar Islands. Distrib. British India, Ceylon. 
4. Polygala brachystacuya, Bl, Bijdr. 69. A slender, prostrate 
or sub-erect herb. Branchos puberulous, terete below, angled above, 
4 to G in. long. Leaves with very short petioles, linear- lanceolate, bristle- 
pointed, glabrous, "4 in. long, and '05 in. broad. Racemes much longer 
than the leaves, few- flowered, slender, axillary or extra-axillary ; prdi- 
eels 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. chincitsLs, Linn., var. brachystaehya. 
Malacca, Griffith. Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 
5. Pol yg a la telephioides, Willd. Sp. PI. iii, 876. A prostrate 
annual with a woody root. Steins 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. <fe A. Prod. I, 36, ? P. serpylhfolia, Poir. Diet. V, 499 ; DC. 
1. c. 326. F. buxiformis, Hassk. in Miq. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 1G1. 
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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