308 MR. SPENCER LE M. MOORE—PHANEROGAMIC BOTANY 
This has almost exactly the leaves of Alsodeia antifolia, except for the absence of 
soft pubescence on the back and on the petiole. The capsule is longer and nearly 
glabrous, and, if the only capsule on the type-specimen at Kew be mature, firmer in 
consistence, besides having narrower, more sharply acuminated and prominently reticu- 
lated valves. I have not seen flowers. | Bolivia. | 
SAUVAGESIA ERECTA, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. II. p. 203. 
Hab. Ad Santa Cruz floret mens. Sept. (N. 754.) [Amer. Trop., Afr. Trop., Ind. 
Arch. | 
BIXINEA. 
CocHLOSPERMUM INSIGNE, A. St.-Hil. Pl. Us. sub tab. 57, var. ? An sp. diversa ? 
Hab. Florebat et fructificabat, foliis orbum, juxta Cuyabá mens. Aug. (N. 29.) 
Dr. Warburg, who saw my specimens, considered it unsafe, in the absence of leaves, to 
absolutely identify them. [Amer. Trop. ] 
POLYGALACEA. 
PoLYGALA RHODOPTERA, Mart. ex A. W. Benn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xiii. pars iii. p. 11. 
Hab. Ad Santa Cruz flores dilute viridi-purpurascentes preebet mens. Nov. (N. 669.) 
[ Bras. Or., Goyaz, Amer. Centr.] 
POLYGALA HIRSUTA, A. St.-Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. ii. p. 45. 
Hab. Crescit ad Serra da Chapada. (No. 193.) [Bras. Or.] 
POLYGALA HYGROPHILOIDES, (sp. nov.); caule quadrangulari, sursum sparse ramoso; 
foliis brevissime petiolatis, infimis verticillatis, reliquis approximatis vel subdistanti- 
bus, lanceolatis, apice acute mucronatis; racemis terminalibus, elongatis, pedunculatis, 
cylindricis, densifloris; sepalis exterioribus oblongo-ovatis, apiculatis; alis corolla 
multo longioribus, late obovatis, obtusissimis; carina cristá bipartità, segmentis iterum 
bifidis superne dorso instructá ; seminibus subcylindricis, horum carunculà breviter 
biappendiculata. 
Hab. Matto Grosso (Leeson, in Herb. Brit. Mus.). 
Planta spithamea, radice brevi sparsim ramoso instructa. Caulis in longitudinem 
striatus, obscure 4-alatus, superne puberulus. Folia+2'0 cm. long. 0°4-0°7 em. 
lat., glanduloso-punctata. Racemi pedunculis 2:0 em. long. attingentibus insidentes, 
usque ad 6'0 em. long. vix 1:0 cm. diam., sursum angustati, apice inconspicue 
comosi, deorsum cicatriculis florum  dilapsorum muniti.  Bractese lineari- 
lanceolate, longe acuminatee, dorso obtuse carinatee ibidemque nigro-glandu- 
lose. Sepala exteriora insequalia, carinata, sep. maximum 0:2 em. long.; ale 
0:33 cm. long., 0:27 cm. lat., dorso carinulatze et nigro-glandulose. Petala oblongo- 
ovata, obtusa, vix usque ad medium tubo staminali adnata, carinam galeatam in 
fructu persistentem superantia. Antherz filamenta libera subzequantes. Stylus 
brevis, crassiusculus, ovario sequilongus. Stigma cucullatum et cristá elongatá 
