Polygala ipulacea Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum Altera: 260. 1771, orth. var.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei."

Lectotype (Levyns in J. S. African Bot., Suppl. 2: 105, frontis. 1954): Polygala floribus imberbibus caules fruticoso foliis lanceolatis linearibus acutis stipulatis, Herb. Burman (G) .

Current name: Muraltia stipulacea (Burm. f.) DC. ( Polygalaceae).

Note: Evidently an orthographic error for P. stipulacea Burm. f. (1768), cited by Linnaeus in synonymy. Another valid binomial cited in synonymy by Linnaeus, Heisteria mitior P.J. Bergius (1767), is not mentioned by Burman.