88 BLAKE: NEw POLYGALAS FROM COLOMBIA 
wide, cuspidate-acuminate, subsessile, obscurely papillose, slightly 
revolute- margined, I-nerve retagacts f erect or ascending; peduncles 
terminal, rarely axillary, 3-10 mm. long; racemes slender-cylin- 
dric, acutish, ae slightly comose at apex, secund or subsecund 
especially i in frui t, 5-9 cm. long, 3~7 mm. thick, the axis becoming 
19 cm. long or less; bracts obovate or oblong- obovate, 1.8 mm. 
long, abruptly attenuate above by the excurrent costa (this 0.4 
mm. long), erose a glabrous, i es see glabrous, 
a 8-1 ee pEes flow ‘a ’; upper sepal ovate-oval, 
unded, lo ane a ‘giabrins, slant glandular- 
thickened eattinnt the rata heuer sepals similar but narrower, 
oblong, 1.2 mm. long; wings eee oval-elliptic, or slightly 
obovate-elliptic, 2.3-3 mm. long, 1.1 mm. wide, rounded, cuneate 
at base, glabrous, 3-nerved, the nerves simple, the lateral ones 
usually reaching nearly to apex; upper petals 2.5-3 mm. long, 
equaling wings, the free portion ovate, 4-veined, narrowed to an 
obtuse or truncate-rounded apex; keel 2.8-3.2 mm. long, — 
exceeding the wings and upper petals, the crest on each side 
an ovate sometimes lobed lamella and two 2- to 4-parted lobes 
upper stigmatic lobe slightly stipitate; capsules elliptic, 3.5 m 
long, I.2 mm. wide, ema rginulate, rounded at base, not oaks 
bearing, chiefly spreading in fruit, about one-fourth longer than 
the wings; seed obconic, silky-comose, 2.7 mm. long Snot oe 
coma), short-rostrate at base; aril 0.4 mm. long, 2-lobed, 
pressed 
CoLoMBIA: Open grass lands, near Escoleva de los Indios, 
vicinity of Santa Marta, 240 m., August 1898-1899, Herbert 
H. Smith 575 (TYPE in U. S. National Herbarium, no. 533,071; 
duplicate in herbarium of the N. Y. Botanical Garden). 
A member of the Series Trichospermae, as nearly related to 
P. variabilis H. B. K. as to any other described species, but 
readily distinguished by its long, slender racemes and its egland- 
ular capsule distinctly longer than the wings. The type col- 
lection was distributed as P. paniculata L., a species of a different 
series. The original label of the sheet in the New York Botanical 
Garden herbarium states that the species is fairly common in 
open grass lands between 150 and 750 meters elevation, flowering 
from July to October. 
Polygala apodanthera sp. nov. 
Incurved- -puberulous aor leaves alternate, linear; racemes 
cylindric, acuminate; flowers ‘pale pink, pedicellate; bracts 
caducous; wings elliptic, tsa 3-3-2 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide; 
bese plurifid; capsule elliptic, 3-3-3.8 mm. long, not stipitate, 
distinctly exceeding the wings; seed short-rostrate, 2 mm. long, 
spreading-pilosulous; aril 2-lobed, 0.5-0.7 mm. long. 
