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POLYGALA. myrtifolia. 
Myrtle-leaved Cape-Milkwort. 
i 
DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PEpICULARES. Jussieu gen. 99. Div. J. Stamina non didy- 
nama, 2 aut plura. : 
PoLyGaLem. Brown gen. rem. in flind. voy. 2. 542; et supra 
ol. 636. 
Sf 
POLYGALA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 150. 
Div. Cristate. 
P. myrtifolia, floribus cristatis carina lunulata, caule fruticoso, foliis levi- 
bus (supra obsoleté villosis) oblongis obtusis. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 988. 
Polygala myrtifolia. Mill. Dict. ed. 8. n. 3. J. Miller illustr. Jacq. fragm. 
1.18. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 884. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 244, 
Polygala arborea myrtifolia, floribus albis: intds purpureis. Comm. hort. 1. 
87. t. 46. : 
Polygala frutescens, foliis oblongis glabris, flore purpureo. Burm. afr. 200. 
t. 73. fig. 1. 
Fates erectus 3-4 pedalis v. ultra, trichotomo-ramosus ramis adscenden- 
tibus patentibus teretibus villosis laxiuts foliosis. Fol. sparsa opacato-viren- 
tia, intervallis bis terve longiora, obovato-oblonga, apice rotundata mutica, 
unciéd breviora vel nunc longiora, supra obsoletivs villosa, subtis adscendentér 
nervosa. Racemi terminales, alternate pluriflori, corymboso-fastigiantes, 
villost ; axis brevis, flexuosa, virens; pedicelli villosi, flore plurimam breviores, 
singuli basi bracteolis 3 verticillatis ovatis glabris patentibus cincti. Flores 
forts chloroleuct, intus lete purpurascentes, transverse unciales longitudine 
semuncialt. Cal. glaber, virens, segmento summo suppostum vexillum sub- 
equante, cordato-acuminato, infrd subcolorato atque subrotundo-patente, 
supra convoluto-attenuato, lateralibus majoribus generis, intus vivide purpu- 
reis, extus virescentibus, apiculo brevi abrupto acutatis. Cor. Vexilli pe- 
tala amba brevia, villoso-ciliata, albicantia, purpureo-venosa, biloba lobo 
interiore lato obliquato reflexo apice rotundo, exteriore angusto subulato erec- 
tiusculo albo; ale clandestine albe superne obsoleté villose, nunc omnind 
adnate (nec nisi ex prominentid partm conspicud in superficie tubi 
filamenti manifeste) vel nunc tantdémmodo ad apicem villosum libere, c@- 
terum cum tubo stamineo confuse; carina lata, compressa segmentis alefor- 
mibus calycis equalis, albida, apice atropurpurea, baseos marginibus lanato- 
ciliatis ; penicellus albicans multifidus, carine apice subbrevior. Filamenta 
alba, fissuré tubi monadelphi lanaté; anther parvule, aurec-micantes, ur- 
nato-dehiscentes (ligularis supra fol. 637. minores). Stylus et stigma albi- 
cantia (stigmatis uncus ligularis latior breviorque). 
“ Native of the Cape of Good Hope, and one of the 
first plants of that country introduced into our greenhouses, 
where it blossoms most part of the year.—John Miller’s 
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