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oblong, not dilated, 2 mm, long. Capsule oval-oblong, narrowly 

 winged on upper side, 2.8 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide. Seed puberu- 

 lous, 2 mm. long. Aril 1.2 mm. long, its lobes linear-oblong. 

 Wats.! Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 325 (1882). Coahuila: Caracol 

 Mts., 32 km. S. E. of Monclova, Aug. 1880, Palmer 2013 (type 

 coll.: GK). Omitted from Chodat's revision. The type is 

 wrongly cited by Watson as Palmer 2113. 



Species Dubiae vel Excludendae 



Badiera Berteriana Spreng. Sys. iii. 172 (1826). " Hispaniola," 

 Bertero. Not identifiable. 



Pohjgala acuminata Willd. Sp. iii. 887 (1803). Badiera acuminata 

 (Willd.) DC. Prod. i. 335 (1824). South American; see Chod. 

 Monog. ii. 46 (1893). 



P. adenophora DC. Prod. i. 327 (1824). Recorded by Bennett, 

 Journ. Bot. xvii. 171 (1879). South American; the Trinidad 

 species is P. exserta Blake. 



P. adenophylla St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. ii. 20 (1829). Recorded 

 by Bennett, 1. c. 202 (1879). The specimen (Galeotti 876) is P. 

 subalata Wats. 



P. americana Mill. 5. angustifolia (HBK.) Ktze. f. viridula Ktze. 

 Rev. i. 48 (1891). Quid? 



P. axillaris Poir. Ency. v. 489 (1804), described as from the An- 

 tilles, is an Indian species of Floscopa (F. axillaris (Poir.) Clarke in 

 DC. Monog. Phan. iii. 268 (1891)). 



P. baccifera Sess. & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 114 (1887), as Poligala 

 baccifera = Monnina sp., ex char. 



P. Berteriana DC. Prod. i. 328 (1824). Santo Domingo, Bertero. 

 According to St. Hilaire (Fl. Bras. Merid. ii. 22 (1829)), who has 

 examined the type, it is P. hygrophila HBK. 



P. Boykinii Nutt. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. vii. 86 (1834). 

 Recorded by Bennett, 1. c. 202 (1879), and Hemsley, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am. Bot. i. 58 (1879). Hemsley's specimens are in part P. subalata 

 Wats. (Ghiesbreght, Galeotti 876, F. Mueller 999) and in part P. 

 aparinoides H. & A. (Bernoulli 662). Other specimens cited have 

 not been examined by the writer. See Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 xxi. 416 (1886). 



P. calvipes Schlecht. Linn. xiv. 160 (1840). " In Mexico ? (hb. 

 Lehmann)." Apparently a member of the subsect. Hebantha of 



