Part 4, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 317 



Badiera punctata Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 42: 496. 1915. Not Polygala punctata A. W. Benn. 



1879. 

 Polygala punctifera Blake. Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 13. 1916. 

 Polygala dimorphophylla Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 16. 1916. 



Shrub 0.6-5 m. high; stem and branches densely puberulous or hirtellous; leaves elliptic, 

 oblong-elliptic, obovate-oblong, or oval, rarely ovate-elliptic or narrowly ovate, 1.5-2.8 or 

 rarely 5 cm. long, 6-22 mm. wide, emarginate at the rounded apex, rounded or cuneate at base, 

 strigillose both sides but smooth to the touch; peduncles 1-2 mm. long; pedicels densely strig- 

 illose to sparsely hirtellous, 1.3-2.5 mm. long; flowers white or yellowish; sepals suborbicular 

 or oblate-suborbicular, 0.S-1 mm. long, 1.2-1.5 mm. wide; wings deltoid-suborbicular, 1.4 mm. 

 long, 1.6 mm. wide; upper petals with dilated apex; keel pubescent on sides near middle, 3.3 

 mm. long; capsule subquadrate or subcuneate-quadrate, sparsely strigillose and ciliolate, lobed 

 for one-fourth its length or less, the lobes truncate-rounded, at base rounded or subcordate, 

 5-7.8 mm. long, 7-10.5 mm. wide, on a stipe 1-1.5 mm. long; seed 5.3 mm. long; aril crenate- 

 lobulate, 2-2.5 mm high. 



Type locality: Coppice, north slope of Blue Hills, New Providence, Bahama Islands. 



Distribution: Bahama Islands; Oriente, Camaguey, and Santa Clara, Cuba. 



8. Polygala jamaicensis Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. 

 Geneve 31(2)=: 11. 1893. 



Badiera diversifolia DC. Prodr. 1 : 334. 1824. Not Polygala diver si folia L. 1753. 



Shrub or small tree 2.5-6 m. high; stem and branches densely puberulous, at length gla- 

 brate; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oval-ovate, 3.5-8.5 cm. long, 1.3-3.7 cm. wide, usu- 

 ally and often abruptly narrowed to the obtuse often retuse apex, cuneate at base, sparsely and 

 minutely strigillose both sides; petioles 3-9 mm. long; peduncles 1-1.5 mm. long; axis of 

 racemes 3-6 mm. long; pedicels appressed-puberulous, 2-5 mm. long; sepals suborbicular- or 

 deltoid-ovate, 1.2-1.5 mm. long and wide; wings deltoid-ovate, 1.8-2.2 mm. long and wide; 

 upper petals obovate; keel densely appressed-pubescent laterally, 4.2 mm. long; capsule sub- 

 quadrate, lobed for about one-fifth its length, with rounded lobes, sparsely ciliate, 6.5-10 mm. 

 long, 7-11 mm. wide, on a stipe 2.5 mm. long; seed 6 mm. long; aril 3 mm. deep, somewhat 

 trilobed. 



Type locality: Rock Fort, Jamaica. 



Distribution: Jamaica, at altitudes of 1065 meters or less. 



Illustrations: P. Br. Hist. Jam. pi. 5,f. 3; Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 13, f. 14; 

 Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. l,f. 3. 



9. Polygala stipitata Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 15. 1916. 



Badiera cubensis Britton, Bull. Torrev Club 37: 362, in part. 1910. Not Polvgala cubemis Chod. 

 1893. 



Shrub 1-2 m. high; branches puberulous; leaves oval or suborbicular-oval to broadly 

 obovate, 3.5-6 cm. long, 1.8-3.3 cm. wide, abruptly short-pointed with obtuse or emarginulate 

 apex, cuneate at base, very sparsely strigillose or glabrous above, sparsely strigillose beneath; 

 petioles 2 mm. long; raceme-axis 4-5 mm. long, the peduncle 1 mm. long or less; pedicels 

 strigillose, 1-1.5 mm. long; flowers greenish; upper sepal oval, rounded, 1.3 mm. long; lower 

 sepals deltoid-ovate, 1 mm. long; wings deltoid-ovate, 1.7 mm. long; upper petals pubescent 

 within, 3 mm. long; keel pubescent laterally, 3.3-4 mm. long; capsule subquadrate, lobed for 

 one-third to one-fifth its length with rounded lobes, narrowly margined, ciliolate, 7 mm. long, 

 8.5 mm. wide, on a stipe 1.5-2 mm. long; seed 6 mm. long; aril lobulate, 1.8 mm long. 



Type locality: Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba. 



Illustration: Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. l,f. 4. 



10. Polygala montana (Britton) Blake, Contr. Gray 

 Herb. 47: 16. 1916. 



Badiera montana Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 37: 363. 1910. 



Shrub 3 m. high or less; branchlets hirtellous; leaves broadly oval or oval-ovate, 2.6-5 cm. 

 long, 1.8-3.3 cm. wide, usually emarginate at the rounded apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at 



