Part 5, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 339 



not angled, emarginate, short-clawed, prominulous-reticulate in fruit, 4.8-S.5 mm. long, 5-8 

 mm. wide; keel somewhat ciliate, plicate on the sides, 4.5-6 mm. long; capsule oval or oblong- 

 oval, emarginate, rounded or cuneate at base and short-stipitate, obscurely crenulate-margined, 

 glabrous, 4.5-5 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide; seed cylindric-ellipsoid, plump, silky-pilose, 3 mm. 

 long; aril corneous, shortly 3-lobed, sparsely pilose laterally, 1 mm. high. 



Type locality': South Carolina. 



Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, and westward to Mississippi. 



Illustration: Mem. Soc. Phvs. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : pi. 15, f. 26-28. 



Polygala grandiflora angustifolia T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 671. 1840. Polygala flabell at a Shuttlw.; 

 (A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1: 41, as synonym. 1852;) Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : 53. 1893. 

 Polygala grandiflora orbicularis Chod. M£m. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 57. 1893. Polygala grandi- 

 flora leptophylla Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 57. 1893. Polygala corallicola Small, 

 Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 425. 1905. Stems sparsely or densely incurved-puberulous; leaves 

 linear or very narrowly linear-lanceolate, rarely elliptic-lanceolate, from essentially glabrous to 

 sparsely or rather densely incurved-pubescent, 2.2-5 cm. long, 1.5-3.5 mm. wide; flowers similar, 

 usually smaller, often deeper purple, the wings 4.5-5.8 mm. long, 4.2-5.3 mm. wide. Florida, 

 Cuba, and Hispaniola. Illustration: M6m. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 15, f. 25. 



Polygala grandiflora leiodes Blake, var. nov. Stems pustulate, glabrous or with a few scattered 

 incurved hairs; leaves as in P. grandiflora angustifolia, glabrous; flowers as in P. grandiflora angusti- 

 folia, the wings 4.3-5.4 mm. long, 3.8-4.8 mm. wide; sepals without non-glandular hairs. Type 

 collected in pineland, vicinity of Fort Myers, Florida, March 19, 1916, Miss J. P. Slandley 25 (U. 

 S. Nat. Herb. no. 569482). Southern Florida; Haiti. 



86. Polygala Planellasi Molinet & Maza; Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. 

 Hist. Nat. 19: 233. 1890. 



Polygala peduncularis A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 10: 37. 1845. Not P. peduncularis Burch. 

 1824. 



Herbaceous perennial, erect, branched, 3.5 dm. high, rather densely pubescent with in- 

 curved or incurved-spreading hairs, a few longer spreading hairs intermixed; leaves elliptic, 

 1.8-2.7 cm. long, 8-1 1 mm. wide, subacute to obtuse, cuneate at base, sparsely incurved-pubes- 

 cent beneath, subglabrous above; racemes 4-7 cm. long; sepals lance-oblong, obtuse, with 

 2 or 3 hairs at apex and 2-3 pairs of pedicellate glands on margin, 2-2.4 mm. long; wings broadly 

 wedge-obovate, slightly undulate at the rounded apex, cuneate at base, inequilateral, only 

 slightly veiny, 5 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide; keel 4.3 mm. long; capsule oblong, 4.5 mm. long, 

 1.8 mm. wide; seed short-silky-pilose, 3.2 mm. long; aril 0.9 mm. high, pubescent. 



Type locality: "Cuba." 



Distribution: "Cuba" and Guadeloupe. 



Illustrations: Sagra, Hist. Cuba 10: pi. 12 bis; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. 46. 



87. Polygala mollis H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5: 406. 1823. 



.Herbaceous, probably perennial, sparsely branched, 3 dm. high or more, densely pilosulous 

 and pilose, the short hairs incurved, the long ones straight, widely spreading; leaves elliptic, 

 1.6-2.4 cm. long, 5-1 1 mm. wide, acutish to rounded at the slightly mucronulate apex, cuneate 

 to rounded at base, green both sides, pubescent like the stem, rather strongly veined; racemes 

 rather dense, 1.8-3.5 cm. long; pedicels 1.5 mm. long; upper sepal elliptic, obtuse, rather 

 densely ciliate with a few of the hairs glandular, 2.4 mm. long; lower sepals similar, united 

 nearly to apex, l.S mm. long; wings suborbicular-obovate, short-clawed, slightly inequilateral, 

 emarginate, reticulate, glabrous, 3.8-4.1 mm. long, 3-3.2 mm. wide; capsule oval, 3.5 mm. 

 long, 2.7 mm. wide; seed oblong-cylindric, densely silky-pilose, 2.8 mm. long; aril casque- 

 shaped, short-pilose, 0.9 mm. long. 



Type locality: Near Carichana, Venezuela. 

 Distribution: Panama to northern South America. 



88. Polygala Wrightii Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. 

 Geneve 3 1(2) 2 : 67. 1893. 



Erect from a slender but perennial root, branched from near the base, about 3 dm. high, 

 densely griseous-pubescent with incurved hairs; leaves linear, 2-3.3 cm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, 

 acuminate at each end, mucronulate, slightly revolute, 1-nerved, sparsely incurved-puberulous 

 beneath; racemes loose, up to 13 cm. long; flowers mauve-purple; sepals rather densely ciliate 



