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POLYGALA oppositifolia ; vaz. major. 
Large opposite-leaved Polygala. 
DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PoLtyGaLrex, 
POLYGALA Tourn.—Calycis sepala persistentia, 2 interiora aleeformia. 
Petala 3-5, tubo stamineo connexa, inferiore carineeformi (forsan é duobus 
coalitis constante). Capswla compressa, elliptica, obovata, v. obcordata. 
Stamina pubescentia, hilo carunculato, coma destituta. Dec. prodr. 1. 321. 
§ Psychanthus.. Carina ampla cristata. Capsula glabra mar- 
ginata. Bractee tres sepiis persistentes ad basin pedicellorum. 
Frutices Capenses (unicus Arabicus). Dec. 
P. oppositifolia 3 foliis oppositis cordatis acutis, ramis glabris. 
a. P. oppositifolia, Linn. Mant. 259. Willd. sp. pl. 3.885. Thunb. prodr. 
120. Desf. in ann, mus. 1.130. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4,244, Supra, 
fol. 636. Dec. prodr. 1. 321. Spreng. syst. 3. 163. 
g. major, foliis distantibus magis cordatis, acuminatis, racemis multifloris, 
floribus majoribus. 
Omnind intermedia inter P. oppositifoliam et cordifoliam, illi glabritate 
foliorum ramorumque affinior, huic foliorum formd florumque magnitudine 
similis, presertim varictati nomine P. latifolia, ad fol. 645 hujus operas 
depicte. 
a a a ae 
For this handsome variety of P. oppositifolia we are 
indebted to the favour of Alexander Baring, Esq., from 
whose Conservatory at the Grange it was sent by Mr. 
Peter M‘Arthur, his Gardener, in February 1826. It 
is a beautiful greenhouse plant, easily increased, and blos- 
soming in abundance in the early months of the year, — 
a season when few flowers are to be procured. 
It is sometimes called in Gardens by the name of 
P. cordifolia, a different plant, distinguished by the downi- 
ness of its leaves and branches. The present is altogether 
intermediate between that species and P. oppositifolia,— 
differing, indeed, in little, except its smoothness, from 
P. latifolia of fol. 645 of this work, which is a mere variety 
