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of about oe or sometimes opposite or ternate on the ical 
the others alternate, linear, 4-9 mm. long, 0.3-0.6 mm. wide, 
cuspidate-acuminate, subsessile, revolute-margined, ache: 
peduncles terminal and axillary, 3-19 mm. long; racemes sub- 
capitate or short-cylindric, rather dense, acute, si comose, 
3-12 mm. long, 2.5-4.5 mm. thick, the axis becoming 14 cm 
long or less; bracts ovate, acuminate, glabrous, 1I-nerved, ca- 
ducous, 0.7 mm. long; pedicels 0.5—0.8 mm. long; flowers white; 
upper sepal ovate-oval, 1 mm. long, obtuse, = “nerved:; lower 
Ad te Sadia oval, m. long; wings oval or r obovate- oval, 
—2 mm. long, 1.2 mm. os Bh nousnet: at base Saeed abruptly 
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crest on each side of a 2-lobed lamella and a single lobe 2-fid to 
middle; capsule oval, 1.7 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide, equaling the 
wings in fruit or about one-fourth shorter, emarginulate, at base 
seed; aril obsolete. 
CoLomBIA: On open foothill in the Cordillera Oriental, east 
of Neiva, Dept. Huila, 1000-1700 m., 1-8 August 1917, H. H- 
Rusby & F. W. Pennell 534 (TYPE in herbarium of the N. Y. 
Botanical Garden; photograph in U. S. National Herbarium). 
Fusagasuga, 3 Jan. 1853, J. F. Holton (N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Open 
clayey loam, Melgar, Dept. Cundinamarca, 500-600 m., Dec. 
1917, Pennell 2890 (N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
This species is a close relative of P. Fendleri Chod. It seems 
distinct, however, in its smaller distinctly short-clawed wings 
and its oval capsule which is usually nearly or quite as long as 
the wings, while in the other species, P. Fendleri, the distinctly 
obovate capsule is much shorter than the wings. 
Polygala subsecunda sp. nov. 
Incurved-puberulous eanpiers leaves alternate, linear; racemes 
cylindric, acutish; flowers rosy, ——. — caducous; 
wings elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 2.3-3 mm. long, I 
rounded ; capsule elliptic, 3.5 mm. long, about ree tour longer 
than the wings; seed obconic, silky-comose, 2.7 mm. long; ari 
0.4 mm. long. 
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branched, 27-50 cm. high; stem subterete, pate and Enely 
incurved-puberulous; leaves (except sometimes for a basal whorl 
of 4) alternate, linear or linear-acicular, 7-19 mm. long, 0.3-I mm. 
