POLYGALA ligularis. 
Strap-leaved Milk-wort. 
mi 
DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PEDICULARES. (RHINANTHACER. ea Decand. théor. ed. 2. 
247.) Jussieu gen. 99. Div. I. Stamina non didynama duo aut plura. 
PoLyGaLeEm. Brown in gen. rem. flind. voy. 2. 542; et 
supra fol. 636. — 
POLYGALA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 150. 
? 
= ee a Div. Cristate. 
P. ligularis, ramis erectis dichotomis approximate foliosis villosis, foliis 
sparsis lingulato-linearibus glabris; racemis umbellatis, pedicellis in axi 
brevissima villosa alternis: lobo exteriore petalorum yexilli brevissimo, 
latere acuminis interiore introrsum obliquato. 
Fraticulus erectus, subsesquipedalis, tamis foliosis erectis villosis 2 
teretibus foliorum decurst interrupte angulosis. Folia numerosa, sparsa, 
patentia, ligulata acumine brevi obtusiusculo, glabra, uninervia, & uncie feré 
longa latitudine subsesquilineari, internodiis pluries longiora. Racemi ter- 
minales, umbellato-contracti, erecti, alternatim pluri-(6?-)-flori; pedicelli 
axi brevissime alterné cireumpositi, filiformes, villosi, erecti, flore foliisque 
obvallantibus breviores, singuli bracteolis 3 ovatis obtusis villosis erectis ver- 
ticillatis ad basin cincti. Flores speciosi, leté purpurei, nutantes, transverse 
unciales velultrd, semunciam v, ultra longi. Cal. glaber, foliolis 3 minoribus | 
ovatis concavis virentibus, 1 summo vexillo incumbente, 2 carine suppositis ; 
2 majoribus lateralibus coloratis, venosis, inequilateri-cordatis, obtusis, 
patentissimis,  adscendentibus. Cor. vexillum dipetalum, parvum carina 
aliquotiés brevius, petala subovata, imbricato-approximata, albicantia cum 
venis purpureis, margine interiore villosa, apice bilobo-fissa, lobo interiore 
obtuso reflexo, exteriore curto oblique truncato cum angulo exteriore brevis-- 
simo: alx 2 clandestine segmentis calycinis lateralibus alternantes, ovate, 
albe, breves tubi filamentost basi utrinque inserte, calyce profundiis incluse : 
carina monopetala folliculart-falcata, inferné albicans, supra atro-purpurea, 
penicillo albido bipartito-multifida finem caring subsuperante cristata. Fil*, 
preter cuspidem flaccidam antheriferam purpurea: pollen grumoso-granulo- 
sum. Stylus glaber, albidus, subfusiformi-elongatus, robustior, assurgens, 
stamina subsuperans, intis sulco longitudinali exaratus: stigma stylum glo- 
chidato-terminans, glochide viridi, brevi, antice rimd glabréd longitudinali 
incisd, apice cernuo glanduloso pruinoso albido secérnente: germ. viride, disco 
hypogyno cavo insertum, obcordato-oblongum, compressum, venosum, glabrum, 
stylo pluries brevius, 2-loc. loculis parallelis monospermis. ee 
SS Ee Neher an, 
Lately introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea 
Nursery, in the King’s Road, from the Cape of Good Hope, 
Samples, collected by Mr. Masson in South Africa, have 
been deposited in the Banksian Herbarium as yarieties 
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