SMALL: PLANT NOVELTIES FROM FLORIDA 381 
The genus Kuhnisiera embraced but one described species, 
until K. adenopoda was recently proposed. It and the above 
described species are rare plants compared to the abundance of 
the type species K. pinnata which also has a wide geographic 
range. 
The present species, K. truncata, differs from K. pinnata in 
many respects—the larger spikes which are borne in a more 
open inflorescence, the broad leaflets, the long-clawed petals 
in which the claws are about as long as the blades, in the longer 
standard, and the larger pods. The petals, too, are truncate or 
slightly emarginate instead of rounded at the apex as they are 
in K. pinnata 
The type specimens were collected at Earman, Florida, by 
Fannie C. Rane, March 2, 1921. Specimens were also collected 
at Jupiter, Florida, many years ago by C. Hitchcock. 
’ Polygala cumulicola Small, sp. nov. Stem arising from a 
coralloid root, simple below o r much- branched, closely appressed- 
‘pubescent; leaf-blades spatulate to broadly linear below, elliptic 
to linear or elliptic-lanceolate above, sparingly ne-pubescent, 
ort, f Ww 
Se pedicels oiaecaes outer sepals green, glabrous, 
a ong, slightly scarious-margined; wings rose- 
purple, 4-5 mm. long, not conspicuously veiny; kee about 3.5 
. long; pod oblong-elliptic, 5-5.5 mm. long, n re or quite 
Fe: ene as the wings, not stipitate, notched : seed- bo 2.5 mm. 
long, long-hairy Fae e sand-dunes, eastern coast a southern 
peninsular Flori 
Heretofore nine — of Polygala were known to be endemic 
in Florida. The following proposed one adds another. It is a 
beautiful species restricted to the coastal dunes, mostly near the 
barrier beach, of the lower eastern coast of the Florida peninsula. 
It is characterized by the bright-green of the foliage and the deep 
rose-purple of the flowers. It maintains itself in the loose 
sand by means of deeply buried coralloid roots. The stem ac- 
commodates itself to the depth of the sand quite readily. Thus 
we find the leafless part of the main stem either an inch long or a 
foot long, according to the movements of the sands and the con- 
sequent adjustment of the stems. It differs from Polygala 
grandiflora as far as the inflorescence is concerned, by the short 
racemes, the deep rose-purple wings which are not conspicuously 
veiny at maturity, the sessile pod, and the narrower long-hairy 
seeds. 
