86 BLAKE: NEw POLYGALAS FROM COLOMBIA 
CotomsiA: Dry grassy bank, Guayabotal, southeast of 
Quetame, Dept. Cundinamarca, 1300-1400 m., 5 Sept. 1917, 
F. W. Pennell 1746 (TYPE in U.S. National Herbarium, no. 
1,041,907; duplicate in herbarium of N. Y. Botanical Garden). 
e group of the subgenus Orthopolygala known as the 
Series Glochidiatae is characterized principally by the uncinate 
hairs clothing the seed. In the variety above described, how- 
ever, the hairs of the seed are straight, although the most careful 
comparison has failed to disclose any other constant difference 
from P. Fendleri Chod. in habit or structure. The occurrence 
of a very few hook-tipped hairs on some of the seeds, moreover, 
shows conclusively that the plant in question is merely an 
anomalous form of P. Fendleri and not a mimetic species of the 
group Zenues, to which I was at first inclined to refer it. 
Polygala Fendleri Chod. was based on Fendler 238, from 
Colonia Tovar, Venezuela. The following specimens agree 
with the type collection in every respect except in having the 
crest on each side composed of a lamella and a single linear lobe, 
while there are a lamella: and two linear lobes in P. Fendlert. 
The seeds in the specimens of the type collection examined, 
kindly lent from the Gray Herbarium and the herbarium of the 
New York Botanical Garden, are obtusish at each end, not 
attenuate as described, and rather densely pubescent with some- 
what spreading hairs which are as distinctly uncinate as they 
are in any of this group. 
CoLomsiA: Open rocky ridges and grass lands above Jiva- 
casaca, vicinity of Santa Marta, 915-1065 m., 27 Sept. 1898- 
1899, Herbert H. Smith 1306 (U.S., N. Y. Bot. Gard.; distr. as 
P. paniculata). In open loam, El Convenio, west of San Lorenzo, 
Dept. Tolima, 1000-1200 m., Dec. 1917, F. W. Pennell 3404 (N. Y. 
Bot. Gard.). 
Polygala Pennellii sp. nov. 
Glabrous annual; lower leaves whorled, the others alternate, 
linear; racemes subca apitate or short-cylindric, acute; 
white, pedicellate; bracts caducous; wings oval or obovate-oval, 
m. ong, 1.2 mm. wide, rounded, short-clawed; crest Be 
ense ol 
Siew teu an an tee branched, 12-33 cm. 
high; stem subterete, glabrous. “eee leaves in about 5 whorls 
