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Sagra (K) ; river bank, Baracoa to Rio Guaba, Oriente, 14 Mar. 

 1910, Shafer 4305 (BG); San Diego de los Banos, Jan.-Feb. 1907, 

 Caldwell & Baker 7007 (G). Jamaica: MacFadyen (G); March 

 (G); Cinchona, 1525 m., 18 Feb. 1900, Clute 193 (GK); Williams 

 Ford, Nov. 1900, Millspaugh 1956 (G); Port Royal Mts., 1843, 

 Purdie (K); Prospect Hill, 610 m., 1900, W. J. Thompson 7938 

 (BJ); Troy, 1906, Harris 9400 (BJK); Castleton, Harris 11 (J); 

 Cinchona, 14 Oct. 1891, W. Fawcett (J); Scotts Hall, 1900, W. J. 

 Thompson 7911 (J); Castleton district, 1898, Harris 7403 (J). 

 Santo Domingo: near Tarabacoa, Prov. de la Vega, 550 m., 1912, 

 Fuertes 1629 (BG). Porto Rico: Catafio, Bayamon, 1885, Sin- 

 tenis 40d (GK); Maricao, 1884, Sintenis 40b (B); Schomburgk 

 (K); Heller 90 (K), 550 (K). Dominica: near Rorehill, 500 m., 

 1881, Eggers 738 (K); Imray 361 (K); Laudat, 1903, F. E. Lloyd 

 46 (K) ; roadside between Prince Rupert and Douglas Bays, 3 July 



1792, (K). Martinique: von Rohr (B); Belanger 16 (B); 



Sieber I. 175 (K). St. Lucia: Anderson (K). St. Vincent: rare, 

 hillside near Kingstown, H. H. & W. G. Smith 1190 (G); H. H. & 

 W. G. Smith 570 (BK). Trinidad: Lockhart (K); Crueger 201 

 (K). T. 2. Fig. 77. Doubtless some of the above-cited speci- 

 mens in European herbaria belong to the next form. 



Forma leucoptera. Flores albi. Vera Cruz : Orizaba, Botteri 

 430 (G). Porto Rico: slopes of Mt. Mesa, Mayaquez, 14 Oct. 

 1884, Sintenis 40 (type coll. : BG); Jayco; 1880, Garber 76 (GK). 

 Guadeloupe : 1892, Fere Buss 2420 (G) . Martinique : La Chap- 

 ella, May 1869, Hahn 124 (GK) and 126 (G). 



Ser. *. Incarnatae Chod. (restr.). Simple or sparsely branched 

 annual, with cylindric racemes; aril large, membranous-cellular, 

 equitant, unlobed. Polygala sect. Orthopolygala subsect. I. E. 

 Incarnatae Chod. Monog. ii. 185 (1893), as to P. incarnata. Here 

 restricted to P. incarnata, its only Mexican species, with which 

 P. setacea Michx. should be included; the other species included 

 by Chodat have a very different aril and doubtless should form a 

 distinct series. 



124. P. incarnata L. Simple or sparsely branched annual, 

 about 3.5 dm. high, the stem slender, glabrous, somewhat glaucous, 

 sulcate, sparsely leaved. Leaves scattered (the very lowest oppo- 

 site or perhaps whorled), linear, acuminate, cuspidate, glabrous, 

 glaucous, 1-nerved, not revolute, 4-6 mm. long, 0.3-0.6 mm. wide, 



