268 Plant. nov. in Florida subtropica indigenae, John K. Small descriptae. 
near the apex: style enlarged near the stigma, the incurved appendage 
dilated at the apex: capsule nearly 1 mm broad: seed ovoid, pubescent, 
0,7 mm long, the caruncle minute or obsolete. 
A species related to Polygala BaldwinW; but distinguished by its 
elongated racemes and cuspidate wings. 
Florida: The type-specimens were collected in the pinelands between 
Cuiler and Black Point, XI, 1903 (Small & Carter, no. 813). The following 
specimens also belong to this species: Camp Jackson (Rolfs, no. 282; 
Small & Wilson, no. 1921). Between Homestead and Camp Jackson 
(Small & Wilson, no. 1674). Camp Longview (Small & Wilson, 
no. 1916). Cocoanut Grove (Small & Wilson, no. 1926). 
11. Polygala arenicola Small, Le, p. 426. 
Biennial, with a short simple or branching caudex, the short branches 
often densely tufted, and partly buried in the sand: leaves approximate 
or crowded, fleshy; blades oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 1,5—5 cm 
long, mostly acute: racemes sessile or nearly so, 1—2,5 cm long, cylindric: 
rachis winged: bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, ultimately deciduous: 
flowers green and drying green: sepals decurrent on the pedicel: wings 
lanceolate, long-acuminate, 5—6 mm long, remotely ciliato-serrulate, the 
sepals shorter and relatively broader: keel terminating in 2 blunt pro- 
cesses: lateral petals rounded and undulate at the apex: stamens 8: style 
prolonged into an incurved tufted appendage: seed nearly 2 mm long, 
the 2 reflexed lobes of the caruncle barely as long as the seed-body. 
This dwarf species is most closely related to Polygala nana (Michx.) DC. 
The plants are commonly smaller than those of P. nana and may be 
distinguished by the narrow leaf-blades, as contrasted with the more or 
less dilated spatulate leaf-blades of that species, and by the smaller flowers 
with less attenuate tips of the sepals. 
Florida: The type-specimens were collected in pinelands between 
Cocoanut Grove and Cutler in XI, 1903 (Small & Carter, no. 1276). 
Specimens were also collected by Dr. Britton, at Perrine below Cutler, 
in III, 1904 (no. 149). 
12. Polygala flagellaris Small, 1. c., p. 427. 
Perennial, glabrous, deep green: stems several or many from a short 
caudex, radially spreading, decumbent, procumbent or declining, 1,5—6 dm 
long, slender, irregularly branched: leaves fleshy, numerous, eommonly 
very numerous, whorled on the lower part of the stems, the whorl com- 
monly in 5's, or alternate above; blades spatulate, the lower ones often 
broadly so, the upper narrowly so, or linear-spatulate, 4—11 mm long, 
slender-tipped, sessile: racemes narrow, elongated and interrupted in age: 
bracts lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1,5—2 mm long, deciduous: pedicels 
0,5—1,5 mm long: flowers greenish, or pink-tinged: sepals not decurrent 
on the pedicel, pale-edged, wings oval, usually acutish, 2,5—3 mm long, 
entire: keel terminating in several slender processes: lateral petals broadly 
ovate, about 2 mm long, obtuse: stamens 8: style with a terminal in- 
curved appendage and 2 auricles at the base of the stigma: capsule 
