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POLYGALA paniculata. 
Swarts's Milkwort. : 
DIADELPHIA _OCTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PEDICULARES. Jussieu gen. 99. Div. I. Stamina non didy- 
nama, dua aut plura. 
_ PoLyGaLen. Brown supra vol. 8. fol. 636. 
POLYGALA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 150. - 
Div. Cristate. ‘ 
_P. paniculata, floribus cristatis, racemis axillaribus longissimé pedunculatis, 
caulibus erectis superné ramosis, foliis linearibus acutis. Willd. sp. pl. 
3. 877. 
Polygala paniculata. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 987. Swartz obs. 272. t. 6. 
2 ! “ 
polite herbacea minor erecta, foliis linearibus, spicd multiplici.terminali 
olios’. Browne jam. 287. 
Herba annua, erecta, subsesuncialis, pube minutd glandulari pruinata, 
ramis foliosis fastigantibus cauleque terctibus. Folia numerosa, laxits sparsa, 
lanceolato-linearia, lineam vix unam lata. Racemi erectt, elongati, aphylli, 
laxé multiflori, pedunculo communi /iliformt, pubescente, pedicellis unifloris, 
ebracteatis, capillaceis, flore brevioribus ; fructiferis recurvis, floriferis erectis. 
Flores parvuli, purpureo-albicantes, lined paulo longiores. Cal. 5-fidus, seg- 
mentis 3 herbaceis lined alba circumscriptis, summo bifido, basi stamined vex- 
ili vice incumbente, lacintis lanceolato-ovatis, convexis, imo conformi, integro, 
carinam subtendente, lateralibus 2 alaribus, coloratis, corollam equantibus, 
lanceolato-oblongis, erecto-patentibus. Cor. ale proportionate (nec obso- 
leta v. clandestine), albe, oblonge, obtuse ; carina albida, alis equalis, cum 
cristd pared, brevi, subsimplict, in apice. Fil*.inferne diadelpha: anth. vitel- 
lino-flavicantes, oblonge, urnatim hiantes, labio sublevato operculiformi, 
erecte, pedicellate. , Stylus brevissimus: stigma productum, crassum, intro- 
verse lunatum, glandulosum, virens, appendice acuminato. 
Though the species before us is familiar to every Botanist 
by the engraving and description in the “ Observationes” of 
Swartz ; and by being one that occurs in all vegetable sys- 
tems; it was, nevertheless, a stranger to our gardens. in the 
living plant, till now introduced by the Horticultural So- 
ciety at Chiswick, where the drawing was taken from plants 
obtained from seed brought from Jamaica, in the beginning 
of this year, by Mr. George Don, a collector in the service 
of the Society. . 
The side petals in this species are completely evolved and 
proportionate to the other petals, as in a genuine pea- 
