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with eglandular hairs, ovate, acute, 1.8 mm. long, the two lower united for three-quarters their 

 length; wings euneate-orbieular, broadly rounded, short-clawed, somewhat venose, 3.5 mm. 

 long, 2.8 mm. wide; keel mauve-purple with yellow apex, 3.8 mm. long; capsule oval, 2.5 mm. 

 long. 



Type locality: Eastern Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba. 



Illustration: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) ! : pi. 13, f. 8-9. 



89. Polygala ambigens Blake; Britton, Bull. Torrey 

 Club 50: 40. 1923. 



Stems usually solitary from a slender but evidently perennial root, simple or sparsely 

 branched, 3.5-6 dm. high, very slender, glabrous throughout or sparsely incurved-puberulous 

 on the younger parts; leaves alternate, linear or linear-filiform, 9-25 mm. long, 0.5-1.5 mm. 

 wide, cuspidulate, short-petioled, 1-nerved; peduncles 5 to 10 mm. long; racemes loosely 

 many-flowered, the axis sometimes becoming 25 cm. long; bracts subulate, 1.5 mm. long, 

 caducous; pedicels glabrous, 1.5-2 mm. long; sepals bearing 3-6 pairs of stipitate glands, 

 sometimes also ciliolate with eglandular hairs toward apex, the upper sepal 2 mm. long, the 

 lower sepals( connate nearly to apex) 1.5 mm. long; wings magenta-purple, broadly and ob- 

 liquely cuneate-obovate, 3.8-4.5 mm. long, 2.8-3.2 mm. wide, subsessile or short-clawed, etnar- 

 ginate at apex, glabrous, about 5-veined, the veins loosely anastomosing, not at all prominulous; 

 upper petals magenta-purple; keel yellow-tipped, becoming 4 mm. long; capsule 3.8 mm. long, 

 2.4 mm. wide, slightly shorter than the mature wings; seed densely pilose, 2.8 mm. long; aril 

 sparsely pubescent on the sides, 0.8 mm. high. 



Type locality: Sabana del Cerro, near Cerro Pelade between Zarzal and Nagua, Oriente, 

 Cuba. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



90. Polygala miamiensis Small, sp. nov. 



Stems slender, solitary from a slender apparently perennial root, branched below, 3.5 dm. 

 high, finely incurved-puberulous; leaves narrowly lance-elliptic or linear-elliptic, 1-2.5 cm. 

 long, 2-5 mm. wide, acuminate at each end, mucronulate, membranaceous, very sparsely in- 

 curved-puberulous along costa beneath and on margin, light-green, 1-nerved; peduncles 1-3.5 

 mm. long; racemes loosely 6-9-flowered, 5-22 mm. long; bracts persistent, subulate, 0.6-0.8 

 mm. long; pedicels 0.8-1.5 mm. long; flowers greenish ; upper sepal oval, obtuse, ciliate with 

 incurved non-glandular hairs, or rarely with one or two of them thickened and glanduliform, 

 1.6 mm. long; lower sepals united three-quarters their length, 1.3 mm. long; wings obliquely 

 suborbicular-obovate, broadly rounded, cuneate at base, not venose, glabrous, 3.3-4.1 mm. 

 long, 2.5-3.2 mm. wide; keel about 2 mm. long; capsule oval, 3-3.8 mm. long, 1.9-2.3 mm. 

 wide; seed oblong-ellipsoid, silky-pilose, 2.5 mm. long; aril corneous, very sparsely pubescent, 

 0.9 mm. high. 



Type collected in the Everglades west of Miami, Florida, November 1-9, 1901, J. K. Small &• 

 G. V. Nash 289 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.). 



91. Polygala bryzoides St.-Hil. Fl. Bras. 



Merid. 2: 44. 1829. 



Polygala angustifolia H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5: 405. 1823. Not P. angustifolia Gilib. 1781. 



?Polygala pubescens Schlecht. Linnaea 14: 160, hyponym. 1840. Not P. pubtscens Mart. 1815. 



Polygala americana angustifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 48. 1891. 



Polygala angustifolia linearifolia Chod. M6m. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 53. 1893. 



Polygala nicaraguensis Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 54. 1893. 



Polygala collina Brand. Zoe 5: 204. 1905. 



Annual, subsimple or branched, 9-33 cm. high, more or less densely incurved- or loosely 

 spreading-incurved-pubescent or even substrigose; leaves linear to lanceolate, 1.3-4.5 cm. 

 long, 2-9 mm. wide, acuminate or acute at each end, subglabrous or sparsely incurved-pubes- 

 cent, 1-nerved; racemes 1.5-7 cm. long; flowers pinkish-purple and greenish; sepals oblong- 

 ovate, obtuse, sparsely ciliate at tip, with 2-3 pairs of pedicellate glands, 1.5-1.8 mm. long; 



