528 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 
Polygala stenocarpa Blake, sp. nov. 
Slender annual 35 to 48 em. high, branched above; stem terete, minutely and 
evenly but not densely incurved-puberulous; leaves alternate except at extreme 
base; petioles 0.5 mm. long; blades linear, 7 to 16 mm. long, 0.4 to 1 mm. wide, 
cuspidate-acuminate, somewhat incurved-puberulous, 1-nerved, somewhat rev- 
olute. thickish; peduncles terminal and axillary, 5 to 17 mm, long; racemes 
loose, slender-cylindric, acutish, comose at apex, 2.5 to 8.5 em. long, 5 to 7 mm. 
thick, the axis becoming 30 cm. long or less, pubescent like the stem; bracts 
ovate, attenuate, 2.4 mm. long, 1-nerved, slightly erose, purplish-tinged, decid- 
uous ; pedicels glabrous, 0.8 to 1 mm. long; flowers purplish, especially (in dried 
specimens) on the corolla; upper sepal ovate-oval, obtuse, 1 mm. long, glabrous, 
1-nerved ; lower sepals similar, narrower, oblong-oval, 1 mm. long; wings ovate, 
1.8 to 2 mm. long, 0.8 to 0.9 mm. wide, obtuse, short-clawed, glabrous, 3-nerved, 
the lateral nerves simple, extending only to the middle; upper petals 2.3 to 2.6 
mim. long, the free portion ovate, narrowed to an obtuse apex, 8-nerved; keet 
2.1 to 2.3 mm. long, its crest on each side of a triangular, sometimes 2-lobed 
lamina and a bifid or 2-parted slender lobe; stamens 8: style and stigma 
shorter than ovary, the style proper dorso-ventrally flattened, scarcely equaling 
its excavate apex, the upper stigmatic lobe slightly tufted, barely stipitate, the 
lower oblique; capsules pendulous, oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 3.5 mm, long, 1.3 mm. 
wide, emarginulate, rounded at base, not gland-bearing; seed obeonie, silky- 
pilose and comose, 2.2 to 8 mm. long (including coma), acuminate at base; aril 
fastened below the tip of the beak, 0.8 to 0.5 mm. long, its 2 lobes oblong, ap- 
pressed. 
Type in the U. 8S. National Herbarium, no. 1,038,657, collected at Hacienda 
de Cura, near San Joaquin, Carabobo, Venezuela, altitude 480 to 1,200 meters, 
August 4 to 13, 1918, by H. Pittier (no. 7976). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMEN EXAMINED: 
VENEZUELA: In savannas, vicinity of Valencia, Carabobo, altitude 400 to 
800 meters, August 15, 1920, Pittier 9035. 
This species belongs in the series J'richospermae of Orthopolygala, in the 
group called by Chodat Penicillatae, among which it is readily distinguished 
by its fine incurved puberulénce (not at all glandular), its oblong-lanceolate 
capsule nearly twice as long as the wings, and the size of its wings. 
ERICACEAE. 
Vaccinium leiandrum Blake, sp. nov. 
Branching shrub, apparently erect; stem and branches olive-green, the 
younger incurved-puberulous, the older glabrate; internodes 1 to 5 mm. long ; 
petioles puberulous above, 1.5 to 2.5 mm. long: leaf blades ovate, 8 to 11 mm. 
long, 4 to 6 mm. wide, acute or obtusish, at base rounded to cuneate-rounded, 
serrulate above the base (teeth about 7 pairs, obtusish, glandular-mucronulate), 
coriaceous, above blackish green, puberulous along costa or subglabrous, beneath 
brownish with a lighter marginal line, glabrous, the lateral veins about 4 pairs, 
like the costa impressed above, obscure beneath; racemes axillary, solitary, 
crowded toward tips of branches, about 8-flowered, essentially glabrous, the 
axis about 6 mm. long, the bracts deciduous, subcoriaceous, about 2 mm. long, 
the pedicels 2 mm. long or less; calyx campanulate, glabrous, 3 mm. long, the 
limb about equaling the tube, its 4 teeth deltoid, acute or obtuse; corolla 
subglobose-urceolate, 4.5 to 5 mm. long, glabrous, the teeth 4 or sometimes 5, 
obtuse, 1 mm. long, spreading or erectish; stamens apparently always 8, equal- 
ing the corolla tube, equal, 4 to 4.5 mm. long, the filaments nearly linear, gla- 
brous or with a very few hairs above, 2.5 mm. long, the anther sacs granular, 
