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liquely oblong, slightly shorter than the wings, united at base to the 

 keel. Lateral petals present, small, united to staminal tube. Sta- 

 mens 8 (7-9 fide Chodat), monadelphous, the tube united toward 

 base to the keel; anthers much shorter than the free (glabrous) 

 portion of the filaments. Stigmatic lobes remote, not tufted. Cap- 

 sule large, glabrous, with a very broad membranous wing on one 

 side, narrowly winged on the other; one or two seeds maturing. 

 Seeds obovoid, densely pilosulous-velutinous. Aril rather large, 

 coriaceous-fleshy, glabrous. Shrubs or trees, glabrous or nearly so 

 except on petioles and raceme-axes, with alternate very coriaceous 

 closely dichotomously reticulate-veined cuneate to elliptic leaves, 

 and large flowers in 3-13-flowered axillary racemes. Phlebotaenia 

 Griseb. PI. Wright. Cub. i. 156 (1860); Britton, Torreya vii. 38 

 (1907); Urb. Sym. Antill. v. 382 (1908). Polygala L. sect. Phle- 

 botaenia Chod. Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. Geneve xxv. 698 (1891) ; sect. 

 Phlaebotaenia (Griseb.) Chod. Monog. ii. 4 (1893). 



Leaves 2.4-5.5 cm. long, 10-18 mm. wide 1. P. cuneata. 



Leaves 8-12.5 cm. long, 3.2-6.9 cm. wide 2. P. Cowellii. 



1. P. cuneata (Griseb.), comb. nov. Tree 15 m. high, 0.3-0.6 m. 

 thick (fide Wright), glabrous except the densely puberulous raceme- 

 axes, more or less glutinous. Leaves cuneate to cuneate-oblong or 

 -obovate, narrowed to the base, rounded, truncate, or retuse at 

 apex, glabrous; petioles puberulous above, 3-6 mm. long. Racemes 

 mostly shorter than the leaves, 3-10-flowered ; pedicels glabrous, 

 shorter than the flowers. Flowers 1-1.4 cm. long, purplish. Sepals 

 and wings ciliolate. Upper petals and wings puberulous toward 

 base. Capsule 1.3-2.8 cm. long, 1.1-1.6 cm. wide. Seed about 7 

 mm. long. Phlebotaenia cuneata Griseb.! I.e. 157 (1860). Poly- 

 gala Phlebotaenia Chod.! I.e. ii. 4. t. 13. f. 1-4 (1893). 



Forma typica. Folia cuneata vel cuneato-oblonga apice rotun- 

 data vel retusa 2.8-5.5 cm. longa 1-1.8 cm. lata. Cuba: Mount 

 Friendship, near Santa Catalina de Guantanamo, 25 July 1856, 

 Wright 113 (type coll: BGK); dry rocky ground near Havana, 

 13 April 1905, Curtiss 111 (BGK); woodlands, Ensenada de Mora, 

 Oriente, March 1912, Britton, Cowell, & Shafer 12981 (K); coastal 

 woods, Ensenada de Mora, March 1912, Britton, Cowell, & Shafer 

 13063 (K). 



Forma obovata (Griseb.), comb. nov. Folia cuneato-obovata 

 apice rotundata vel retusa 2.4-2.7 cm. longa 1.2-1.8 cm. lata. 



