40 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS—XI 
Polygala rhynchosperma Blake, sp. nov. 
Slender erect sage 14-25 cm. high, simple or few-branched 
above, evenly but not densely puberulous with niall thickish, 
incurved or aaheenreiced eglandular hairs. Leaves alternate 
except for I or 2 basal whorls, rather crowded, bhbri. petioled, 
the blades linear, 6-14 mm. long, 0.5-1.3 mm. wide, acute, 
cuspidulate, I-nerved, sparsely benaedtone like the stem, erect; 
peduncles 5-15 mm. long; racemes slender, cylindric, gradually 
narrowed to an obtuse apex, loose below, 2-9 cm. long, the axis 
bracts oval or obovate, caducous . long, Aesgp ous at 
Her the 2 lower oblong, obtuse, 1.2-1.5 mm. lo ong, oa lbeaies 
obscurely 1-denticulate on each side near apex; wings pinkish 
(when dried), obovate, 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, rounded or 
obtuse, scarcely c awed, 3-nerved; upper petals slightly shorter 
than keel, the free portion Sable ovate, obtuse, 3-nerved; 
keel 3-3.2 mm. long, slightly surpassing the wings, the crest on 
each wide of a deeply trifid lamella and a 2- or 3-fid or 2- parted 
lobe with linear segments; capsule pendulous at maturity, 
ere i the wings, elliptic- oblong, —— 3-3 
m. wide; seeds subcylindric, 2.2 mm. lon 
densely git ‘distncdy rostrate at base vere E> 
0.4 m ee aril fastened to upper ha : of beak, 
long, the 2 lobes rhombic, acute or fee appre a. 
with short blunt retrorse lower lobe and gubetipitate soll 
upper lobe. 
Sabana del Cerro, near Zarzal, Oriente, July, 1922 (Léon 10990; 
type No. 1,049,981, U. S. National Herbarium). 
Among North American species Polygala rhynchosperma is 
nearest P. paniculata L., which is densely stipitate-glandular 
and has shorter wings and an erostrate seed. The Venezuelan 
P. Funkii Chod., known to me only from Chodat’s description 
and figures, is evidently closely related, having similar bracts, 
seed, and stigma. It is described as glabrous, with acute lance- 
elliptic sepals, acute wings, and a crest composed on each side 
of an acute triangular entire lamina and an undivided linear 
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Polygala ambigens Blake, sp. nov. 
a rire solitary from a slender but evidently Pecan 
sparsely branched, 3.5-6 dm. high, very slender, 
Srabtous " dhioughout or sparsely icky veel pubes ions on the 
