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to apex. Ovary more or less pubescent; style about two to three 

 times as long as ovary; stigmatic lobes approximate, not tufted. 

 Capsule coriaceous-fleshy, equally 2-celled (one cell often aborted), 

 wingless, barely margined, distinctly stiped, the cells at length 

 dehiscent. Seeds sparsely pubescent. Aril large, somewhat helmet- 

 shaped, equitant, appressed, coriaceous-fleshy, glabrous, somewhat 

 lobed. Evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate oblong to oval or 

 ovate slightly veined coriaceous leaves exceeding the dense very 

 short umbelliform or spiciform axillary racemes of small flowers. 

 Badiera DC. Prod. i. 334-335 (1824); Deless. Ic. Select, hi. 13. 

 t. 21 (1837); Britton, Bull. Torr. Club xxxvii. 360-363 (1910); 

 Britton, 1. c. xlii. 494-497 (1915). Polygala L. sect. Hebecarpa 

 Chod. group I. Chod. 1. c. ii. 9 (1893). 



a. Leaves more or less harshly papillose-scabrous above, b. 

 b. Leaves narrowly obovate, very scabrous above; fruit 



densely spreading-hispidulous or -pilosulous 3. P. Penaea. 



b. Leaves broadly obovate to obovate-oblanceolate, slightly 

 scabrous above ; fruit at maturity pubescent chiefly 



on the margin 4. P. guantanamana. 



a. Leaves smooth above (merely strigillose or glabrate), c. 

 c. Peduncle longer (3.1-6 mm.) than the pedicels (1.5-2 



mm.) 13. P. Fuertesii. 



c. Peduncle shorter than the pedicels, d. 



d. Fruit trigonous or subquadrate in outline, about as 

 broad as long, e. 

 e. Leaves 3 (rarely 5) cm. long or less, usually 

 emarginate at the rounded apex (Cuba, Porto 

 Rico, Bahamas), /. 

 /. Fruit 7-8 mm. long, 7-8 mm. wide; stipe 1-1.5 

 mm. long, g. 

 g. Leaves oblong, elliptic-oblong, or obovate- 



oblong 5. P. oblongata. 



g. Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic 6. P. punctifera. 



f. Fruit 5 mm. long, 6 mm. wide; stipe 0.6 mm. 



long 7. P. portoricensis. 



e. Leaves 3.5-8 cm. long, usually short-pointed 



(Jamaica) 8. P. jamaicensis. 



d. Fruit transversely oblong, distinctly wider than 



long, h. 



h. Fruit lobed about one-fifth its length, the lobes 



divergent-spreading, i. 



i. Leaves ovate to obovate, abruptly short-pointed ; 



fruiting pedicels 2-2.8 mm. long; stipe 



2-2.5 mm. long 9. P. stipitata. 



i. Leaves oval, rounded or emarginulate at apex; 

 fruiting pedicels 1.5-2 mm. long; stipe 1 



mm. long 10. P. moniana. 



h. Fruit lobed about one-third its length, the lobes 

 erect-ascending, ,;'. 

 j. Fruit 7-7.5 mm. long, 9.5-10 mm. wide .... 11. P. propinqua. 

 j. Fruit 5 mm. long, 7-8 mm. wide 12. P. dimorphophylla. 



