Vol. 51 No. 3 
BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
MARCH, 1924 
New Polygalas from Colombia 
S. F. BLAKE 
Polygala diversa sp. nov. 
Frutescent, sometimes flowering the frst hg fennel 
pubescent; leaves oval to elliptic, 1.5-4 c » 7-I 
wide; racemes short, 12-15 mm. thick, Ge Se eaee 
deciduous: pedic els 1.5-2 mm. long; sepals ciliolate with glandular 
s b 
long, 4.5-5.8 mm. wide, inequilateral, densely spreading-pu- 
bescent and ciliate; capsule quadrate-oval, 5 mm. long, ciliolate; 
seed 4 mm. long, silky- pilose 
Fr utescent, up to 90 cm. high, much Agree! but flowering 
also as a simple- -stemmed annual only 18 cm. high; stem 5 mm. 
thick or less, terete, densely incurved-pubescent or ascending- 
pubescent, often with spreading hairs intermixed; leaves alter- 
nate; petioles 1-2 mm. long, pubescent ye the stem; blades 
oval to elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 1.5-4 cm. long, 7-14 mm. wide, 
acute or acuminate to rounded, sometimes rnnicrontaleeert at base 
ing-puberulous, glabre t exce gin, beneat 
about equally green, spreading-pubescent, more densely so 
alo the veins, these 3-5 pairs, prominulous beneath, the 
secondaries obscure; peduncles terminal and supra-axillary, 5 
e) r less; racemes 12-25 mm. long, 12-1 m. thick, 
obtuse or acute, slightly comose, pubescent like the stem, the 
axis becoming 4 cm. long or less; bracts subulate, 1.5 mm. long, 
relced paren deciduous; sediveds puberulous, 1. 5-2 mm. long; 
pes pink o r violet-pink”; upper sepal oblong-ovate, 3.5-3.8 
Ae Sivtades densely ciliolate with eglandular hairs for its 
Beast hits above bearing about 8 aah of stipitate glands and 
a few eglandular hairs, on back spreading-puberulous; lower 
sepals united nearly to apex, peal 28 mm. long, spreading- 
puberulous on back, bearing about 10 pairs of stipitate glands 
from base to apex, the —— — few; wings suborbicular- 
obovate, 6.5-7 mm. long, 4.5-5.8 mm. m. wide, Gerona’ inequi- 
lateral, emarginate, at "hase wneqiesl: cuneate on one side, 
[The Buttetin for February (61: 37-82) was issued March 12, 1924.] 
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