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MURALTIA HEISTERIA» 
(hEISTEr's MURALTIA.) 
Generic Character. — See preceding. 
Specific Character. — A greenhouse shrub, with triquetrous (three sides, or angles), stiff leaves produced 
in bundles. Branches purberulous. Flowers axillary, purple, sessile. 
Synonyme. — Polygaia Heisteria. — Bot. Mag. t. 340. 
This species is equally interesting, and worthy of a place in every greenhouse 
collection with the preceding. It is also a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and is 
in habit so similar that the treatment recommended for it will also suit this. We 
omitted to say^, when speaking of that species, that it is at all times necessary to water 
with caution, and never to neglect changing the pot the moment the roots show signs 
of matting. 
The drawings were made from plants which are now in full flower in the 
greenhouse at Chatsworth. 
Muraltia is a name given in compliment to John Von Muralt, a Swiss botanist. 
The majority of the species were for a long time included in the well known genus 
Polygalay but for scientific reasons it has been found necessary to include them 
under the present type, Muraltia, 
In Don's System of Gardening and Botany, Vol. I. page 364, the following species 
are enumerated and arranged thus : — 
The synonymes are in italics. 
Muraltia conferta (Crowded-leaved Muraltia); 
flowers purple. 
— Polygaia thymifolia. 
— brevifolia (Short-leaved Muraltia) ; flowers 
purpie. 
— seipyllifolia (Wild thyme-leaved Mural- 
tia) ; flowers purple. 
— alopecuroides ( Foxtail-like Muraltia ) ; 
flowers purple. 
— Polygaia alopecuroides. 
— trinerva (Three-nerved leaved Muraltia) ; 
flowers purple. 
■ — squarrosa (Squarrosc Muraltia) ; flowers 
purplish. 
— Polygaia squarrosa. 
Leaves mucronately-pungent at their apex. 
Muraltia junipeiifolia (Juniper-leaved* Muraltia); 
flowers purplish. 
— Polygaia juniperifoUa. 
— ericsefolia (Heath-leaved Muraltia); flow- 
ers red mixed with white. 
— Polygaia mixta. 
sprengelioides (Sprengelia-like Muraltia); 
flowers purple. 
— satureioides ( Savoury-like Muraltia ) ; 
flowers purple. 
— tcuuifolia (Fine-leaved Muraltia); flowers 
purple. 
— Polygaia tenui folia. 
aspalatha ( Aspalathus-like Muraltia ) ; 
flowers purple. 
