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mm. long; sepals densely ciliate, 4-5 mm. long; wings suborbicular, retuse at the rounded apex, 

 short-clawed, very minutely glandular-ciliolate, strongly reticulate in fruit, 12-15 mm. long 

 and wide; keel 9 mm. long; capsule quadrate-orbicular, emarginate, glabrous, 1.5-1.9 cm. 

 long, 1.5-1.7 cm. wide; seed ellipsoid, bronzy-brown, pilosulous, 9 mm. long, 6 mm. wide; aril 

 very minute, corneous, 0.5 mm. long. 



Type locality: Comondu. Lower California. 



Distribution: Southern Lower California. 



Illustrations: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. II. 2: pi. 3; Bot. Mag. pi. S06S. 



83. Polygala hondurana Chod. Bot. Jahrb. 52: Beibl. 

 115: 75. 1914. 



Slender shrub, 1.5 m. high or less, branched, finely incurved-puberulous; leaves ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded to cuneate at base, thin, finely and sparsely puberulous, 

 glabrate above, 5-10 cm. long, 1.6-3.8 cm. wide; petioles 2.5-4 mm. long; racemes loose, the 

 axis incurved-puberulous, 1.5-4 cm. long; bracts caducous; pedicels 4—7 mm. long, incurved- 

 puberulous; flowers greenish-white, the keel tipped with yellowish-green; sepals ciliolate and 

 incurved-puberulous, eglandular, 3 mm. long; wings ovate-orbicular, veiny, glabrous, 8-9 mm. 

 long, 6.5-7 mm. wide; keel short-unguiculate; capsule quadrate-orbicular, deeply cordate- 

 emarginate, 6-7 mm. long, 6-6.5 mm. wide; seed pilose-tomentose, 4.8 mm. long (including 

 aril); aril sparsely pubescent, 2 mm. high. 



Type locality: Between Meambar and Puente de los Altos de Santa Cruz, altitude 455-610 

 meters, Honduras. 



Distribution: Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua. 



84. Polygala tonsa Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 63. 1916. 



Fruticose, branched, sparsely and minutely incurved-puberulous; leaves ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 7-10 cm. long, 2.1-3.5 cm. wide, acuminate, mucronulate, cuneate at base, charta- 

 ceous, not reticulate, sparsely and minutely appressed-puberulous, glabrate, ciliolate ; petioles 

 incurved-puberulous, 3-4 mm. long; racemes extra-axillary, 2 cm. long; pedicels 5-6 mm. long; 

 flowers greenish ; sepals oval, sparsely glandular-ciliolate, on back subglabrous but glandular- 

 punctate, 2.5-3.5 mm. long; wings orbicular, rounded at apex, short-clawed, greenish, glabrous, 

 7.5 mm. long and wide; keel 6.5 mm. long; capsule quadrate-oval, emarginate, short-stipitate, 

 glabrous, 6.5 mm. long, 5.8 mm. wide; seed (with aril removed) ellipsoid, pilose, 3 mm. thick; 

 aril fleshy-coriaceous, vaulted, 2 mm. high, grooved toward base, more or less pilose on sides. 



Type locality: La Vega, Dept. Santa Rosa, Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 Illustration: Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. 40. 



85. Polygala grandiflora Walt. Fl. Car. 179. 1788. 



Polygala Senega rosea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 53. 1803. 



Polygala ptibescens rosea Muhl. Cat. 63, nomen nudum. 1813. 



Polygala pubescens Nutt. Gen. 2: 87. 1818. 



Polygala Muhlenbergii G. Don, Gen. Syst. 1: 358. 1831. 



Asemeia rosea Raf. New Fl. 4: 88. 1838. 



Polygala grandiflora canescens Shuttl.; A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1:41. 1852. 



Polygala grandiflora pubescens Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 57. 1893. 



Stems solitary or several from a deep slender or thickish perennial root, erect or ascending, 

 1.2-4.5 dm. high, simple or branched even from the base, densely pubescent with shorter in- 

 curved and longer spreading or ascending nearly straight hairs, or these sometimes nearly 

 all incurved or wide-spreading; leaves narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, 1-4.8 cm. long, 2-10 

 mm. wide, acuminate to obtuse at each end, the lower sometimes rounded at apex, sparsely 

 or densely pubescent like the stem, the uppermost sometimes linear-lanceolate; peduncles 

 terminal and extra-axillary, 3-9 mm. long; racemes loose, more or less secund, up to 2.7 dm. 

 long; pedicels 2-4 mm. long; flowers purplish and greenish, the upper petals yellow-tipped, 

 the keel purplish, the wings greenish or purplish- tinged; upper sepal elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 

 bearing 3-8 pairs of stipitate glands and usually also ciliate, 2.5-3 mm.' long; lower sepals 

 united for four-fifths their length, acutish; wings strongly inequilateral, quadrate-suborbicular, 



