Part 5, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 327 



Distribution: San Luis Potosi to Jalisco and Puebla. 



Illustrations: Mem Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2)': pi. 13, f. 33-37; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 

 1. /• 24. 



44. Polygala oaxacana Chod. Bot. Jahrb. 52: Beibl. 

 115: 73. 1914. 



Stems few, suffruticulose below, barely puberulous above, about 2 dm. long; leaves linear, 

 the larger 26-35 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. wide, acute, mucronate, glabrescent; racemes 3-5 -flow- 

 ered, 3 cm. long; flowers 6-7 mm. long; sepals lanceolate, ciliate; wings oval, a little longer 

 than broad, short-clawed, ciliate; keel somewhat 3-lobed, the limb noticeably shorter than the 

 claw; filaments long-hirsute; ovary obovate, shortly and densely pilose; fruit and seed un- 

 known. 



Type locality: San Juan del Estado, Etla, Oaxaca. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



45. Polygala polymorpha Chod. Bot. Jahrb. 52: Beibl. 

 115: 74. 1914. 



Stems few, appressed-pubescent, 1-2 dm. long; leaves varied, from ovate or lance-oblong 

 to linear-lanceolate or linear, 2-3.5 cm. long, 3-17 mm. wide, mucronate, sparsely and minutely 

 appressed-puberulous; racemes few-flowered, terminal; flowers 6-7 mm. long; sepals lance- 

 linear, acute ; wings oblong-elliptic, glabrous, scarcely clawed ; keel elongate ; capsule oblong, 

 with broadish sinus, hirsute, cuneate at base, 9 mm. long; seed hirsute; aril capitelliform, with 

 two slender descending lateral lobes a third as long as seed, and a prolonged twisted dorsal lobe. 



Type locality: Limestone hills of Chacula, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



IV. Hebantha. SufTrutescent perennials; leaves comparatively large, ovate or lanceolate, 

 mostly 2-5 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, gradually reduced upward, not noticeably dimorphous; 

 sepals free, deciduous; wings petaloid, deciduous; keel without beak or crest; capsule mem- 

 branaceous-herbaceous, narrowly winged or margined. 



46. Polygala Sanctae-Luciae Chod. M£m. Soc. Phys. 

 Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 36. 1893. 



Stems erect, slightly puberulous, 1.5-4 dm. long; leaves elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 2-2.5 cm. long, 1—1.1 cm. wide, acute or apiculate, strongly reticulate both sides and very 

 shortly but densely subgriseous-velutinous, coriaceous; flowers 6 mm. long; wings elliptic, 

 6 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, about equaling corolla, ciliate; capsule oval, cordate-emarginate, 

 with triangular vallecula, 10 mm. long; seed pyriform, brown; aril membranaceous, retrorsely 

 spurred. 



Type locality: Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. 

 Distribution: Santo Domingo and Santa Lucia. 



47. Polygala longipes Blake, Contr. Gray 

 Herb. 47: 40. 1916. 



Stem slender, very finely strigillose, 3 dm. high and more; leaves lanceolate, 5.4-6.5 cm. 

 long, 9-14 mm. wide, long-acuminate, cuspidate, thin, above green, minutely and sparsely 

 strigillose, at length glabrate, beneath slightly paler, along the veins minutely strigillose, sub- 

 glabrous between them; branch-leaves linear; racemes loose, 14.5 cm. long or less; pedicels 

 5-8 mm. long; flowers apparently ochroleucous ; sepals lance-ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long; wings 

 oblong-oval, rounded at apex and there ciliolate, sparsely appressed-puberulous along costa, 

 6.6 mm. long, 3.3 mm. wide; keel 6.8-7.1 mm. long; capsule elliptic, ciliate; seed unknown. 



Type locality: Oaxaca (state). 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



