The botanist's repository for new and rare plants; vol. 06 [of 10]

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. Two Brotherhoods. Eight Chives.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx 5-phyllus, foliolis duobus alæformibus, coloratis. Legumen obcordatum, biloculare.

Cup 5-leaved, with two of the leaves like wings, coloured. Pod inverse heart-shaped, two-celled.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C.

Polygala, floribus imberbibus, pedanculis solitariis axillaribus, foliis fasciculatis ovatis mucronatis margine ciliatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 890.

P. floribus imberbibus lateralibus, foliis fasciculatis lanceolatis mucronatis villosis. Thunb. Prod. 121.

Polygala, with flowers beardless, peduncles solitary axillary, leaves fascicled egg-shaped mucronated and ciliated on the margin.

P. with flowers beardless lateral, leaves fasciculated lance-shaped mucronated and villose.

Descriptio. Suffrutex elegans, ramulis hirtis. Folia valde conferta, fasciculata, pone medium recurva, 5-6 in singulo fasciculo, infimo majore, latiore, stipuliforme; omnia lineari-lanceolata, mucronata, hirta, ad margines valde ciliata. Flores axillares, sessiles, solitarii, minuti, purpurascentes, serrulati.