P L A T E CCCLXXI.
POLYGALA ALOPECUROIDES.
Fox-tail Wlilkwort.
C L A S S XVIL O R D E E IIL
DUDELPHU OCTANDRM. Two Brotherhoods. Eight Chives.
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ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALYX 5-phyUus, foliolis duobus alaeformibus,
coloratis. Legumen obcordatumjbiloculave.
CUP 5-]eaved, with two of the leaves like wings,
coloured. Pod inverse heart-shaped, twocelled.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.
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PoLYGALA, floribus imberbibus, peduncnlis solitariis
axillaribus, foliis fasciculatis ovatis
mucronatis margine ciliatis. JVilld. Sp. PI.
890.
P. floribus imberbibus lateralibus, foliis fasciculatis
lanceolatis mucronatis villosis.
Thunb. Prod. 121.
PoLYGALA, with flowers beardless, peduncles
solitary axillary, leaves fascicled eggshaped
mucronated and ciliated on tlic
margin.
P. witli flowers beardless lateral, leaves fasciculated
lance-shaped mucronated and villose.
D E S C R I P T I O . Suffrutex elegans, ramulis hirtis. Folia valde conferta, fasciculata, pone medium
recurva, 5—6 m singulo fasciculo, infimo majore, latiore, stipuliforme ; omnia lineari-lanceolata,
mucronata, hirta, ad mai-gines valde ciliata. Flores axillares, sessiles, solitarii, minuti, purpm-ascentes,,
ien-ulati.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement magnified.
2. The keel magnified.
3. One of the wings magnified.
4. The chives and pointal magnified.
5. The pouital detached and magnified.
T H I S is the Polygala of the Heisteria family, which we last mondi engaged to lay before our readers,.
They will now have an opportmiity, from our copious dissections of the flowers, of judging of the great
and numerous generical diiferences which exist between a genuine Polygala and the discarded genus
Heisteria. All the Heisteriae we have yet had an opportunity of examining are heptandrous ; all tlie
tnie Polygalae octandrous : but these are the least of their distinctions.
The Fox-tail Milkwort is a very elegant shrub of the green-house kind, and is often in flower. It
was recently raised from Cape seeds in tlie Clapham collection, and is at present, we believe, in no other :
thrives well in a mixture of bog eartli and loam, and is capable of propagation by cuttings.
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