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POLYGALA latifolia. 
Broad-leaved Cape-Milkwort. 
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DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PepicuuaREs. ~ Jussieu gen. 99. Div. f. Stamina non di- 
dynama, 2 aut plura. : : 
RHINANTHACER. Decand. théor. ed. 2. 247. 
PoLyGALExz. Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy. 2. 542; et 
supra fol. 636. ; 
POLYGALA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 150. 
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Div. Cristate. 
P. latifolia fruticosa, ramis pubescentibus, foliis decussatis, subcoriaceis, 
: glauciusculis, nervosis, rhombeo-ovatis, oblatis, supra nudis, infra villo- 
 siusculis; racemis umbellatis; antheris barb4 long4 rard divaricatd ad 
basin. 
Fruticulus erectus (sesquipedalis?); ramis erectis, teretibus, villoso-ca- 
nescentibus, foliosis, (brevibus?). Fol. decussato-opposita, cinereo-virentia, 
crassiuscula, oblata, rhomboidali-ovata, intervallis longiora, nervosa, mu- 
cronata, ciliata, subtus. villis raris adspersa, } uncie longa vel magis, basi 
obsolete cordata: petiolus hirsutior, brevissimus. Racemi terminales, pluri- 
flort, erecti, umbellato-contractt, axi pedicellis plurimim breviore bracteis 
obtecté : pedicelli strictt, glauci, pallidi, nudiusculi, flore duplo breviores, 
bast bracteolis 3 verticillatis ovato-oblongis cincti. Flores dilutits purpu- 
rascentes % uncie longi v. circitér. Cal. fere congenerum affinium. Vexil- 
lum dipetalum chloroleucum, supra venis purpurets pictum, segmento incum- 
bente calycis % longius, petala collateralia a margine interiore villoso mutuod 
imbricantia, biloba fissa, lobis sint lato obtuso interceptis, interiore reflexo 
obtuso, exteriore assurgente duplo longiore lineari-subulato acumine saturate 
" purpureo, Ale clandestine nulle. Carina cymbata, compressa, latissima, 
unferne virens, superne atropurpurascens acumine brevi: penicillus carneo- 
albicans, amplus, decompositus, inferne virens. Fil. alba: anthere -flave, 
bast barbé raraé patentissima donate. Pist. feré ligularis, oppositifoliz, et 
myrtifoliz, at glochis stigmatosa earum plurimum latior. 
A curious unpublished species, lately introduced from 
the Cape of Good Hope by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea 
Nursery, in the King’s Road, where the drawing was taken 
‘in May last. 
Cultivated in the greenhouse. It forms a small upright 
shrub, and flowers freely in the latter part of the spring. 
A foot and a half high? branches upright, round, vil- 
lous, grey, leafy, short. Leaves decussated, slightly glau- 
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