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lanceolate, (> 9 nun. long, 0.8-1.2 mm. wide, the others alternate, 

 Bessile, mucronate, 1 -nerved, slightly revolute, 13-18 mm. long, 

 1.5-2 nun. wide. Raceme cylindric-ovoid, thick, slightly comose at 

 apex, 1.7-2 cm. long, 8-8.5 nun. thick; peduncle 1.8-2 cm. long; 

 bracts deciduous in fruit. Sepals oval, bluntly pointed, with strong 

 midnerve, L.8 nun. long. Wings elliptic, rounded, about 7-nerved, 

 brownish-white when dried, 4.5 mm. long, 3 nun. wide. Upper 

 petals oval, rounded, equalling the keel. Keel 2.5 mm. long; crest 

 of about 3 pairs of lobes. Capsule subglobose, turgid. Seed ellip- 

 soid, blackish, short-pubescent, 1.7 mm. long. Aril 1 mm. long, 

 the 2 lobes narrowly and obliquely oblong, corneous above. 

 HBK. Nov. Gen. v. 395. t. 508 (1821) ; Seemann! Bot. Herald 80 

 (1852-53) (as P. hygrophylla) ; Chod. Monog. ii. 161. t. 21. f. 11-12 

 (1893). Panama: near the city of Panama, in savannas, Seemann 

 284 (B). 



112. P. timoutou Aubl. Slender erect annual, simple or 

 branched, 8-18 cm. high, very glabrous. Stem strongly about 3- 

 angulate-winged. Leaves nearly all in whorls of 3 (the upper oppo- 

 site or alternate), oval or obovate, mucronate at the acutish apex, 

 cuneate to the sessile base, 1-nerved, 4.5-9 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide. 

 Racemes very dense, greenish in dried specimens, very slightly 

 comose at apex, 1-3.8 cm. long, 5-6.5 mm. thick, short-peduncled. 

 Flowers ca. 3 mm. long. Sepals greenish, lanceolate, subacuminate, 

 about one-half as long as wings. Wings greenish in dried specimens, 

 " purplish " when fresh, broadly oval, rounded at apex, about 4- 

 nerved, 2.8 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide. Keel 2 mm. long; crest of 

 2 pairs of lobes. Upper petals about equalling keel, obovate-ob- 

 long, strongly retuse. Capsule orbicular-ovate, emarginulate, 1.2 

 mm. long, 1 mm. wide. Seed sparsely pubescent, black, oval, 

 plump, 1.2 mm. long. Aril with oblong lobes about 0.8 mm. long. 

 Aubl. PL Guian. ii. 737. t. 295 (1775); Griseb.! Fl. Br. W. Ind. 

 27 (1859); Chod. Monog. ii. 154. t. 21. f. 1-3 (1893). Trinidad: 

 savanna de O'Mara, July 1848, Purdie 122 (K) ; savanna d'Aripo, 

 Feb. 1851, Crueger (G); without locality, Fendler 269 (K, fragm. 

 G). T. 2. Fig. 66. 



Ser. y. Glochidiatae Chod. Plant very slender; stem leaves 

 verticillate ; racemes loose, the flowers very small; seed densely 

 pubescent wifti glochidiate hairs. Polygala sect. Orthopolygala 

 subsect. I. C. Glochidiatae Chod. Monog. ii. 164 (1893). 



