BRITTON: STuDIES OF West INDIAN PLANTS 5361 
Riper ore leaves I.5 cm. long or less. 2. B. virgata. 
es oblon 3. B. oblongata. 
Sat a ovate, eee or ovate-lanceolate, 2.5—9 cm. long. 
Leaves ences acuminate, or paesid acute at the apex. 
Leaves 2—3 times as long as v 4. B. diversifolia, 
st less than twice as pay as wide. 5. B. cubensis 
Leaves rounded or emarginate at the apex. 6. B. montana 
Unknown to me, except from description. 7. B. Berteriana. 
I. BADIERA PENAEA (L.) DC. Prodr. 1: 335. 1824 
Polygala Penaea L. Sp. Pl. 703. 1753. 
Polygala domingensis Jacq. Stirp. Am. ed. min. 252. 1788. 
Badiera domingensis DC. Prodr. 1: 335. 1824. 
Mountains of Haiti and Santo Domingo. This plant is rep- 
resented in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden by 
the following specimens: ‘‘In montibus, Hispaniola (Jacquemont) ; 
Sierra del Palo Quemado, Santo Domingo, at 500 meters (Eggers 
1897); pineland, Marmelade, Haiti, at goo to 1100 meters ( Nash 
719; Nash & Taylor 1312). 
Professor Chodat ignores Badiera Penaea in his monograph, 
and describes Eggers no. 1897 as Polygala domingensis, not recog- 
nizing the genus Badiera. Mr. Nash’s no. 719, which is in young 
fruit, so closely resembles the original figure of Polygala Penaea 
L. (Plumier, ed. Burmann, pl. 214. f. r) that it appears to me 
the two supposed species must be one; the character cited by 
De Candolle (Prodr. 1: 335) of flowers solitary in B. Penaea 
and flowers racemose in B. domingensis is doubtful; the Plumier 
figure shows the plant in fruit, and in this as in other species of the 
genus often only one flower of the cluster produces fruit. 
2. Badiera virgata sp. nov. 
A shrub or small tree up to 4 meters high, the branches nearly 
erect, densely leafy, the twigs finely puberulent. Leaves obovate, 
or obovate-oblanceolate, rigid, 10 mm. long or less, 4-8 mm. wide, 
puberulent or minutely papillose-puberulent, or becoming nearly 
or quite glabrous when old, rounded at the apex, or some of them 
slightly emarginate, narrowed at the base, the petioles pubescent, 
I-1.5 mm. long, the midvein slightly elevated beneath, the lateral 
venation wholly obscure; flowers several in the axillary clusters 
or solitary, yellow-green, 2 mm. long; fruiting pedicels 1.5 mm. 
long; fruit 5 mm. long, the lobes narrowly winged (only imperfect 
ones with one lobe developed seen). 
