CUP 5-leaved; with two of the leaves like wings, coloured. Pod inverse heart-shaped, two-celled. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. POLYGALA, floribus cristatis, racemis terminalibus paucifloris, alis calycinis ovatis acutiusculis multinerviis, caule fruticoso, foliis lineari-subulatis. _Willd. Sp. Pl. 882._ POLYGALA, with cristated flowers, racemes terminal few-flowered, calyx-wings ovate acutish many-nerved, shrubby stem, and linear-awl-shaped leaves. DESCRIPTIO. Ramuli filiformes, patuli, canescentes. _Folia_ sparsa, sæpe conferta, recurva, et falcata, linearia, obtusa, marginibus revolutis, ut in Erica; supra canescentia: subtus cana. _Racemi_ 2-5 flori. _Pedunculi_ pubescentes. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A leaf. 2. The under surface of the same magnified. 3. The exterior part of the cup. 4. One of the wing-like leaves of the cup, outside. 5. The same inside. 6. The chives, keel and banner spread open. 7. The keel and its crest detached. 8. The same magnified. 9. The chives and banner. 10. The same magnified. 11. The seed-bud and pointal. 12. The same magnified. Our plate represents the true species of Polygala, which we promised in our account of P. stipulacea. It is a green-house shrub, and rather delicate; yet may, with care, be propagated by cuttings; but is at present very scarce in this country. Its native country is the Cape. Our drawing was taken from a plant in the Clapham collection in the summer of 1803. [Illustration] PLATE CCCLXXI. POLYGALA ALOPECUROIDES. _Fox-tail Milkwort._ CLASS XVII. ORDER III. _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. 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 pointal detached and magnified.