450 POLYGALACE^. Polygala. 



* Flowers solitary in the upper axils, violet-purple and white : wings spatulate : small ob- 

 lon"- leaves commonly with conspicuous brownish glands upon the lower surface. 



P. macradenia, Gray. Erect much branched cinereous-tomentose undershrub, 3 to 8 

 inches hi oh from stout ligneous root : leaves only 2 or 3 lines in length, a line or less in 

 breadth : violet wings somewhat exceeding the keel : capsule ovate-oblong, emarginate, 

 puberulent; seeds compressed, narrowly oblong, appressed silky-villous, 2.^ lines long, sur- 

 mounted by a helmet-like puberulent 3-lobed caruncle. — PI. Wright, i. 39, ii. 30; Torr. & 

 Gray, Pacif. R. Uep. ii. 162 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 49 ; Chodat, 1. c. 36, t. 14, f. 33-36. — 

 Hillsides W.Texas, Wright, Thurber, to Arizona., Palmer, Pr'uvjle, Leiiiinon ; first coll. by 

 Wright. (Adj. Mex., Palmer.) 



* * Flowers in terminal or lateral spicate racemes, yellowish or greenish white (rarely 

 " blue " ? ) : wings lanceolate or obovate : leaves without conspicuous glands. 



P. puberula, Gray. Puberulent, branched from the base: lowest leaves sometimes oval 

 or often like the otiiers linear, lance-liuear, or linear-oblong : wings obovate, obtuse, shorter 

 than tlie keel : capsule suborbicular, emarginate, 4 lines in diameter, glabrous or puberulous 

 upon the surfaces, pubescent upon the very narrow margin ; seeds obovate-oblanceolate in 

 outline, finely puberulent and with rounded caruncle. — PI. Wright, i. 40, ii. 30 ; Torr. Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 48; Wheelock, 1. c. 150; Chodat, 1. c. 22. — W. Texas (ace. to Coulter, re- 

 ported as far east as Coleman County and Leona River) to Arizona; common. (Mex., 

 Lower Calif. ?) 



P. OVatifolia, Gray. Moderately branched from a Hgnescent base, soft tomentose-pubes- 

 cent : leaves ovate, obtuse or acutish, shortly petiolate, pubescent upon both surfaces, 8 to 

 10 lines long, two thirds as broad ; the uppermost somewhat narrower, ovate-lanceolate : 

 wings lanceolate, acute or acutish, shorter than the keel : capsule large (at maturity 5 lines 

 in diameter), orbicular, smooth on the surfaces but strongly ciliated upon the rather broad 

 and distinctly marked border ; SQeds ovate, finely silky-villous and with hood-shaped puber- 

 ulous caruncle. — PI. Wriglit. i. 39 ; Chodat, I.e. 19, t. 13, f. 26-30. P. ovalifolia, Gray, PI. 

 Lindh. pt. 2, 151 (not of later publications) ; Wats. Bibl. Index, 91, in part ; Wheelock, 1. c. 

 148 (by evident clerical error) ; Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. i. 31, ii. 27 ; not D(^ — 

 Hillsides, S. and W. Texas, Wright, Reverchon, &c. ; New Mexico, Wright. (Adj. Mex., 

 Eaton & Edwards, Palmer.) 

 P. MYRTiLLOiDES, Willd. (Spcc. ill. 889; P. huxifolia, HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. v. 407, 



ace. to Chodat; P. ovalifolia, DC. Prodr. i. 331), of Mexico differs in its shorter puberulent 



rather than pubescent indumentum, obtuser leaves, and longer obtuser wings, which fully 



equal or somewhat exceed the keel. 



§ 2. Hebeclada, Chodat, 1. c. 43. Lower pair of sepals connate ; entire 

 calyx persisting in fruit : keel without crest or beak : a single species of the 

 S. Atlantic and Gulf States with some closely allied species of W. India and 

 S. America. 



P. grandiflora, Walt. Root lignescent : stems usually several, erect or somewhat flexu- 

 ous and spreading, slender subsimple or somewhat branched, covered with short appressed 

 puberulence : leaves ovate-lanceolate to lance-linear or narrowly linear-oljlong, mostly ap- 

 pressed-puberulent : racemes terminal and lateral, loose and secund ; pedicels a line or two 

 long : flowers violet-purple turning greenish in age : wings obovate-cuneate or flabelliform, 

 veiny, 3 lines long, nearly as broad : capsule elliptic-oblong, glabrous, mostly sliorter than the 

 wings; seeds oblong, scarcely compressed, appressed-hairy. — Car. 179; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 

 i. 132, 670; Chapm. Fl. 84; Wheelock, 1. c. 151 ; Chodat, 1. c. 56. P. Senega, var. rosea, 

 Michx. Fl. ii. 53. P. pubescens rosea, Muhl. Cat. 63. P. puhescens, Ell. Sk. ii. 181. P. 

 Muhlenbergii, Don, Syst. i. 358. — Pine woods, old fields, &c., South Carolina to Florida and 

 Mississippi ; fl. through summer. 



Var. canescens, Shuttl. Stem and leaves canescent-tomentulose, the latter lance- 

 oblong, obtuse: flowers essentially as in tlie type. — Shuttl. in distr. pi. Rugel, no. 39, & in 

 Gray, PI. Wright, i. 41. P. grandijlora, var. pubescens, Cliodat, 1. c. 57 (as to pi. dcscr.), is 

 probably the same, but P. pubescens rosea, Muhl., was more likely nearer the typical form. — 

 Long Island, Tampa Bay, Florida, Rugel, no. 39. 



