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TypB locality: Provinces of Chiriqui and Veraguas, Panama. 

 Distribution: Panama. 



70. Polygala costaricensis Chod. Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. 30 1 : 298. 1891. 



IPolygala gualemalensis Gand. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 60: 454. 1913. Not P. guatemalensis A. W. 

 Benn. 1895. 



Several-stemmed from a suffruticulose base, 2-6 dm. high, ascending or erect, more or 

 less densely incurved- puberulous with few or many longer spreading hairs intermixed; leaves 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-6.5 cm. long, 8-23 mm. wide, acute or acuminate, mucronulate, 

 thin but chartaceous, somewhat reticulate, rather sparsely incurved-puberulous, usually with 

 a few longer but scarcely spreading hairs intermixed; racemes loose, 3-12.5 cm. long; flowers 

 purplish; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 2.5-3 mm. long; wings oblong to oblong-oval, 8-10 

 mm. long, 4.2-6 mm. wide, rounded, sparsely puberulous along costa and at apex; keel gla- 

 brous, 8-9.5 mm. long; capsule oval, ciliate and spreading-puberulous, 10.5 mm. long; seed 

 short-pilose; aril 2.7 mm. high, with small densely pilose umbo, the undulate-lobulate scarious 

 margin broad, the dorsal margin abruptly erectish, the anterior obliquely descending. 



Type locality: San Jose, Costa Rica. 

 Distribution: Guatemala and Costa Rica. 



Illustrations: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 14. f. 21-24: Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 

 pi. 2. f. 30. 



71. Polygala isotricha Blake, Contr. Gray 

 Herb. 47: 53. 1916. 



Polygala Platycarpa slricta Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 27. 1893. Not P. stricla St.- 

 Hil. 1829. 



Suffruticulose below, erect, 4 dm. high or more, densely short-pubescent with subequal 

 incurved hairs, a few longer incurved hairs sometimes present; leaves ovate or rhombic-ovate, 

 rarely oval, 3.5-6 cm. long, 1.1-2.5 cm. wide, acute or rarely obtuse, mucronate, at base cune- 

 ate, chartaceous, somewhat reticulate, puberulous with incurved hairs, a few longer ones some- 

 times present on the under side; racemes 4- IS. 5 cm. long, rather dense; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 4 mm. long; wings oblong-obovate, S-9.5 mm. long, 3-4.5 mm. wide, obtuse, very 

 sparsely puberulous along costa; keel glabrous, 7.5-8.5 mm. long; capsule suborbicular, 

 strongly emarginate, reticulate, ciliate and rather densely spreading-puberulous, 10-12 mm. 

 long; seed 6 mm. long; aril 3.7 mm. high, ehartaceous-scarious, slightly crenate, sparsely 

 pilose, with very small densely pilose umbo, the dorsal margin ascending at an angle of about 

 30°, the anterior vertical. 



Type locality: Between Rabinal and Santa Ana, Baja Vera Paz, Guatemala. 



Distribution: Guatemala. 



Illustration: Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. 31. 



V. Adenophora. Suffruticulose; leaves and capsules dotted with large glands; sepals 

 free, deciduous or the upper persistent; wings petaloid, deciduous; keel without beak or crest. 



72. -Polygala glandulosa H.B.K. Nov. 

 Gen. &Sp. 5: 404. 1823. 



Viola punctata Humb. & Bonpl.; R. & S. Syst. Veg. 5: 391. 1819. Not Polvgala punctata A. W. 



Benn. 1879. 

 Polygala Greggii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 325. 1882. 



Stems very numerous from a thick woody root, suffruticulose, diffuse, 1-2 dm. long, some- 

 what gray-pubescent with incurved hairs, densely leafy; leaves obovate to oval-obovate or 

 rarely suborbicular-oval, 4.5-10 mm. long, 1.5-6 mm. wide, rounded at the mucronate apex, 

 cuneate to rounded at base, thick, densely translucent-glandular-dotted, incurved-puberulent 

 or short-pilosulous; racemes axillary, very short, 1-2-flowered; flowers purple; sepals oblong- 

 ovate, obtuse, 1.2-1.5 mm. long, ciliate and puberulous, the upper often subpersistent ; wings 

 spatulate-obovate, 7.5 mm. long, 3.7 mm. wide, rounded, at base long-cuneate, short-pilose 

 and sparsely ciliate, purple; keel 3-lobed, 4.5 mm. long; capsule elliptic, deeply emarginate, 



