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63. Polygala consobrina Blake, Contr. Gray 

 Herb. 47: 48. 1916. 



SufTruticulose and branched below, 2.4 dm. high, densely pubescent with incurved hairs, 

 a few longer more spreading hairs sometimes present; lower leaves oval, obtuse, the middle 

 and upper ovate, 2.2-4.8 cm. long, 1.7-2.7 cm. wide, acute, broadly cuneate at base, somewhat 

 venose-reticulate, thin but finally firm, incurved-puberulous; racemes rather dense, about 5 

 cm. long; flowers apparently ochroleucous ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm. long; wings 

 oblong-oval, 4.5-5.5 mm. long, 2.5-2.8 mm. wide, rounded, ciliolate, along costa and toward 

 apex pilosulous with somewhat spreading hairs; keel glabrous, 4.2 mm. long; capsule oval, 

 densely ciliolate, pilosulous with somewhat spreading hairs, 9 mm. long; seed 6 mm. long; 

 aril 2.3-3.8 mm. high, more or less pilose, the densely pilose somewhat indurated umbo minute, 

 the scarious margin irregularly dentate-lobulate, the dorsal margin erectish, the anterior verti- 

 cally descending. 



Type locality: Escuintla, Dept. Escuintla, Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Guatemala and Salvador. 

 Illustration: Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. 33. 



64. Polygala hebantha Benth. Bot. Voy. 

 Sulph. 67. 1844. 



SufTruticulose below, few-stemmed, erect, 1.5-2.5 dm. high, densely pubescent with sub- 

 incurved-spreading shorter hairs mixed with longer spreading hairs; lower leaves oval or ellip- 

 tic, rounded or obtuse, mucronulate, thinnish, somewhat reticulate, sparsely pubescent with 

 shorter and longer incurved hairs, 1.8-3 cm. long, 1-2.2 cm. wide, the middle and upper larger, 

 2.5-5.5 cm. long, 1.1-3.2 cm. wide, oval to ovate, acute; racemes rather loose, 2-4 cm. long; 

 flowers apparently ochroleucous; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 2 mm. long; wings narrowly 

 oblong, 4.5-5.8 mm. long, 1.2-1.8 mm. wide, obtuse, pubescent everywhere except on margin 

 with comparatively long and spreading hairs; keel sparsely appressed-pubescent, 4-4.6 mm. 

 long; capsule orbicular, densely ciliate and spreading-pubescent, 9 mm. long; seed 5 mm. long; 

 aril membranaceous-scarious, 2.2 mm. deep, short-pilose, the dorsal edge ascending, the 

 ventral subvertical, the margin irregularly lobulate. 



Type locality: Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 Illustration: Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. 35. 



65. Polygala trichoptera Chod. Bot. Jahrb. 52: Beibl. 

 115: 74. 1914. 



Stems erect, slender, hirsute, 1-2 dm. high, simple or sparsely branched; leaves lance- 

 elliptic to lanceolate or linear, sparsely hirsute above, conspicuously ciliate and venose beneath, 

 2-4 cm. long, 7-16 mm. wide; racemes 7-12-flowered, about 2-4 cm. long, the rachis puberulous 

 or subhirsute; pedicels 2.5 mm. long; flowers violaceous, 6 mm. long; sepals lance-linear, 

 hirsute, acute; wings obovate-oblong, very obtuse, slightly reticulate, sparsely long-haired 

 on the back; immature capsule elliptic-obovate, very hirsute. 



Type locality: Limestone hills, Uaxac Canal, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, altitude 1300- 

 1400 meters. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



66. Polygala guatemalensis A. W. Benn. Jour. 

 Bot. 33: 108. 1895. 



SufTruticulose, 5 dm. high, with few erect branches, rather densely pubescent with short 

 incurved hairs mixed with long spreading ones; leaves ovate, 2.5-3.9 cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, 

 the upper acuminate, scarcely mucronulate, reticulate with 5-7 pairs of veins, firm and sub- 

 coriaceous, ciliate, above dark-green, rather sparsely pubescent with short and long incurved- 

 appressed hairs, beneath paler, sparsely incurved-puberulous along the veins, with a few longer 

 looser hairs; racemes rather dense, 4.5-9.5 cm. long; sepals lanceolate, acute, 3 mm. long; 

 wings oblong, 5-6 mm. long, rounded at apex, incurved-puberulous along costa and toward 



