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deest. Bahamas: New Providence: sandy loam, pine region, 

 about 13.5 km. S. W. of Nassau, 12 Apr. 1905, A. E. Wight 272 

 (type: G); Andros: Red Bays, 15 Apr. 1890, J. I. & A. R. North- 

 rop 465 (GK). 



82. P. cubensis Chod. Very slender annual, slightly branched 

 above, 4.5 dm. high, from a slender vertical root. Stem and 

 branches terete, glabrous like the inflorescence, the branches in 

 youth sparsely incurved-pubescent. Leaves linear or linear-lanceo- 

 late, obtuse, mucronate, at base acuminate, slightly revolute, with 

 about 3 pairs of faint lateral nerves, green and glabrous both sides 

 (when young slightly incurved-puberulous) , 1.4-2.5 cm. long, 1-3.5 

 mm. wide, on glabrous or sparsely incurved-puberulous petioles 1 

 mm. long. Racemes laxly flowered, 6-12 cm. long. Sepals her- 

 baceous, with narrow pale margin, usually bearing 3-4 pairs of 

 pedicelled glands, 1.11.3 mm. long. Wings obovate-oval, rather 

 abruptly short-clawed, truncate-rounded at apex, purplish-tinged, 

 glabrous, not venose (at least when young), 3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. 

 wide. Keel with short flabelliform crenulate lateral lobes, 4 mm. 

 long. Upper petals purple, obovate. Capsule oval-oblong, glab- 

 rous, 4.4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Seed short-silky-pilose, 2.6 mm. 

 long. Aril crustaceous, sparsely pilose on the sides, 0.8 mm. long, 

 shaped like those of others in this section. Chod.! Monog. ii. 62. 

 t, 15. f. 36 (1893). Cuba: 1860-64, Wright 112 p. p. (type coll. : 

 BG). Chodat describes the sepals in his types as ciliate but not 

 glandular. In the specimens above described, which were distri- 

 buted under the same number and agree in other features with his 

 description, they are glandular-ciliate. Without much more ma- 

 terial of this group than is at present available a satisfactory under- 

 standing of its species can scarcely be attained. 



83. P. Wrightii Chod. Erect perennial, branched from near 

 the base, the stems or branches about 4, erect, 3 dm. high, densely 

 griseous-pubescent with incurved hairs. Leaves linear, acuminate 

 at each end, mucronulate, slightly revolute, 1-nerved, the lateral 

 veins very obscure, glabrous above except for a few hairs near the 

 margin, subsparsely incurved-puberulous beneath, 2-3.3 cm. long, 

 1.5-2 mm. wide, on incurved-puberulous petioles 1 mm. or less 

 long. Racemes at length loosely flowered and 10-13 cm. long. 

 Flowers mauve-purple. Sepals rather densely ciliate with eglandu- 

 lar hairs, ovate, acute, the two lower united for 3/4 their length, 



