Part 4, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 315 



glabrous, membranaceous-herbaceous, flat, with a very broad membranous wing on one side, 

 narrowly winged on the other, 1.3-2.8 cm. long, 1.1-1.6 cm. wide, one cell sometimes abortive; 

 seed 7 mm. long, densely pilosulous-velutinous; aril large. 



Type locality: Mount Friendship, near Santa Catalina de Guantanamo, Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba. , 



Illustration: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : pi. 13. f. 1-4. 



Polygala cuneata obovata (Griseb.) Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 9. 1916. Phlebolaenia 

 cuneata obovata Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 14. 1866. Polygala Phlebolaenia obovata Chod. Mem. Soc. 

 Phys. Geneve 31(2) : : 5. 1893. Leaves cuneate-obovate. rounded or retuse at apex. 2.4—2.7 cm. 

 long, 1.2-1.8 cm. wide. Loma de Rangel, near San Cristobal, Cuba. Illustration: Contr. Gray 

 Herb. 47: pi. /,/. /. 



2. Polygala Cowellii (Britton) Blake, Contr. Gray 

 Herb. 47: 10. 1916. 



Phlebotaenia Cowellii Britton, Torreya 7: 38. 1907. 

 Phlebolaenia portoricensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 382. 1908. 



Tree up to 10 m. high; branches sparsely appressed-pubescent, at length glabrate; leaves 

 oblong to elliptic, 8-12.5 cm. long, 3.2-6.9 cm. wide, cuneate to rounded at each end, 

 or abruptly pointed with obtuse apex, glabrous or with a few hairs along midvein; petioles 

 5-7 mm. long; racemes 2.5 cm. long, subsessile on leafless branches, 6-13-flowered, their axes 

 like the pedicels (4-9 mm. long) densely spreading-puberulous; flowers purple; sepals broadly 

 elliptic, rounded, purplish-green, ciliate, the upper 4 mm. long, the lower 2.5 mm. long; wings 

 elliptic-obovate, obtuse, short -clawed, 14.5 mm. long, 9 mm. wide; keel with two rotund lateral 

 folds, 14 mm. long; capsule suborbicular or semi-orbicular, 3.8 cm. long, 2.6-3.6 cm. wide, 

 membranous, glabrous, very broadly winged on both cells or one wing sometimes greatly 

 reduced, the wings many-nerved, somewhat reticulate, the seminiferous cells about 9 mm. 

 long; one ovule usually abortive; seed obovoid, somewhat compressed, densely rufidulous- 

 silky-pilose, 8 mm. long; aril none. 



Type locality: Coamo Springs, Porto Rico. 

 Distribution: Porto Rico. 

 Illustration: Addisonia pi. 2S0. 



II. Badiera. Evergreen shrubs or trees; leaves coriaceous, obscurely veined, more or 

 less revolute; flowers in dense short umbelliform or spiciform or rarely loose axillary racemes; 

 sepals free, subherbaceous, persistent or subpersistent ; wings obliquely ovate, subherbaceous, 

 little larger than the sepals, subpersistent or deciduous; upper petals arched, about twice as 

 long as wings, adnate to staminal sheath; stigmatic lobes approximate, not tufted; capsule 

 fleshy-coriaceous, usually stipitate; aril large, fleshy-coriaceous, glabrous. 



3. Polygala Penaea L. Sp. PL 703. 1753. 



Polygala domingensis Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Pict. 96. 1780. 

 Badiera Penaea DC. Prodr. I: 335. 1824. 

 Badiera domingensis DC. Prodr. 1: 335. 1824. 



Shrub or small tree, much branched; stem and branches densely hispidulous; leaves obo- 

 vate, 1.8-3.2 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the mucronulate apex, acutely 

 cuneate at base, rough both sides with short persistent tuberculate-based hairs; petioles 1—1.5 

 mm. long; racemes sessile, the axis 2.8 mm. long or less; bracts ovate-oval, broadly rounded, 

 spinulose-ciliate, 0.5-0.6 mm. long; pedicels 1.5-2 mm. long; flowers greenish-yellow; sepals 

 deltoid-ovate, rounded, 0.8-1 mm. long and wide; wings similar, 3-nerved, 1.3-1.4 mm. long, 

 1.1-1.3 mm. wide; upper petals oblong; keel ciliate more than one-half its length, 2.6-2.8 mm. 

 long; capsule broadly cuneate or sometimes transversely oblong, lobed for about one-sixth its 

 length or subtruncate, short-hispidulous, 4-5.5 mm. long, 7-9 mm. wide, on a stipe 1 mm. 

 long; seed 4.2 mm. long, sparsely pubescent; aril casque-shaped, with distinct dorsal lobe, 

 2.2-2.7 mm. deep. 



Type locality: Tropical America. 



Distribution: Haiti and Santo Domingo, at an altitude of 500-1190 meters; southwestern 

 Porto Rico; Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. 



Illustrations: Deless. Ic. 3: pi. 21; Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) ! : pi. 13, f. 9-11; Contr. 

 Gray Herb. 47: pi. 1 , f. 2. 



