Polygala tricholopha

Straggling shrubs, about 2-5 m tall. Stems slender, with projecting scars or cicatrices or fallen leaves. Leaves simple, alternate, elliptic-oblong, about 9-15 x 3-5 cm across, base cuneate to subrounded, margin entire, apex acuminate, chartaceous to subleathery, coriaceous, green glabrous above and paler subglaucous beneath, midrib impressed above and prominent beneath, lateral veins about 7-9 on either side of the midrib, anastomosing near the margins, veinlets reticulate, petiole about 5-10 mm long, stipules absent. Inflorescence in terminal or extra axillary, leaf opposed, paniculate racemes in zig zag rachis, pubescent, drooping, about 9-10 cm long. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, yellow, about 1.5-1.7 cm across, pedicels about 3 mm long, bracts linear lanceolate, apex acute, caducous, bracteoles caducous, sepals 5, unequal, in 2 series, usually outer 3 small, outer solitary one obovate to linear lanceolate, margin ciliolate, outer paired sepals, suborbicular to ovate, margins ciliate, apex emarginated to obtuse, about 3-4 mm long, inner 2 larger petaloid winged sepals, elliptic-obovate, apex obtuse, margins revolute, about 6-7 mm across, enlarged in fruit, many-veined, veinlets anastomosing, petals 3, yellow, lobed, middle ones about 6-8 mm long, keeled, with about 1-3 mm long pedicel crest, lateral ones orbicular, about 10-13 mm long, base clawed, divided in number of appendages. Stamens 8, monadelphous, filaments united basally, variously free above, into a somewhat tubular split staminal sheath, about 2.5-3 mm long, anthers sessile, conical, basifixed, dehiscing from the terminal pore. Ovary laterally compressed, ovate, bilocular, anatropous ovules 2, style terminal, about 6 mm long, stigma lateral, bilobed unequally. Fruit capsule, compressed or flattened, elliptic to suborbicular, apex emarginated, beaked, about 4-7 x 6-7 mm across, margined with wings, dehiscing loculicidal, dark reddish purple. Seeds 2, subglobose-obovoid, caruncle tri-lobed, black.