BLAKE: NEW POLYGALAS FROM COLOMBIA 89 
Slender erect annual, 23-38 cm. high, with few erect plik 
stem below the inflorescence finely puberulous with incurved 
glanduliform hairs; leaves alternate except for one or 2s Tas 
pairs, numerous, rather crowded, erect, linear, 1-2 cm. lo ong, 
0.5-I mm. wide, acute, cuspi ulate, very shortly gore 
nerved; peduncles 3 to 8 mm. long, terminating stem 
branches: racemes cylindric, dense above, loose below, eoaihide 
to an obtusish somewhat comose apex, occasionally secund, 
2-9.5 cm. long, 5-7 mm. thick, the axis becoming 15.5 cm. long 
or less, seletie densely puberulous with ee ae than those 
of the stem; pedicels glabrous, 0.6-1 long, spreading or 
recurved at maturity; bracts oval, anaes suapiaie: -acuminate, 
erose above, caducous, 1.8 mm. long; flowers pale pink, the upper 
petals and keel apparently more purplish; upper sepal oval- 
ovate, obtuse, I-nerved, ie aad long; lower a. gett is 
oblong, obtuse, I-nerved, long; wings elliptic, 3-3.2 
mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide, Lonaliae Fike ald obtuse, nek but 
not clawed at base, 3-nerved, the nerves simple: eel 3.1 mm. 
long, the crest on each side of a 3-fid or 3-parted lamella and a 
2-parted lobe; upper petals shorter than keel, the free portion 
obliquely ovate, obtuse, 3- or 4-nerved; anthers sessile or sub- 
sessile; capsule elliptic, 3.3-3.8 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, emar- 
ginulate, not stipitate, about pnetoat fam than the wings; 
seed subcylindric, short-rostrate, 2 mm. long, rather densely 
spreading-pilosulous; aril attached to the fend 2-lobed, 0.5-0.7 
m. long, the lobes oblong, obtuse or sometimes acutis 
Cieamses Rocky bank in prairie, Mariquita, Dept. Toles, 
250-300 m., 7 Jan. 1918, F. W. Pennell 3638 (TYPE in U. S- 
National Herbarium, no. 1,044,846; duplicate in herbarium of 
the New York Botanical Garden). 
A species of the Tenues group, nearest the Venezuelan 
Polygala Funkti Chod., in which, according to description, the 
stem and raceme axis are glabrous, the wings and sepals acute, 
the crest on each side composed of a lamella and a slender lobe 
(both entire), and the free portion of the filaments nearly as 
long as the anthers. 
