Part 5, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 341 



wings inequilateral, broadly wedge-obovate, cuneate at base, retuse at apex, veiny but not 

 strongly reticulate even in fruit, 3-4 mm. long, 2.7-3 mm. wide; keel 3.8 mm. long; capsule 

 oblong-oval, 2.8-3 mm. long, 1.7 mm. wide; seed 2.5 mm. long; aril 0.7 mm. long. 



Type locality: Aldea de San Pedro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

 Distribution: Sinaloa and Cuba to Brazil. 



Illustrations: H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. pi. 511'; St.-Hil. FI. Bras. Merid. 2: pi. 88; Mem. 

 Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2)2: pi. 15. f. 22-24; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2. f. 45. 



92. Polygala cubensis Chod. M£m. Soc. Phys. 

 Geneve 31(2) 2 : 62. 1893. 



Very slender annual, slightly branched above, 4.5 dm. high, glabrous or when young very 

 sparsely incurved-pubescent; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 1.4—2.5 cm. long, 1-3.5 mm. 

 wide, obtuse, mucronate, at base acuminate, slightly revolute, glabrous or essentially so; ra- 

 cemes loose, 6-12 cm. long; sepals 1.1-1.3 mm. long, usually pedicellate-glandular; wings obo- 

 vate-oval, truntate-rounded, short-clawed, purplish-tinged, not venose, 3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. 

 wide; keel 4 mm. long; capsule oval-oblong, 4.4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; seed silky-pilose, 2.6 

 mm. long; aril 0.8 mm. high. 



Type locality: Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba. 



Illustration: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 15, f. 36. 



93. Polygala Krugii Chod. M£m. Soc. Phys. 



Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 63. 1893. 



Polygala bahamensis Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 64. 1916. 



Erect single-stemmed annual, 1.6-3.8 dm. high, simple or branched, glabrous or very 

 sparsely incurved-puberulous; leaves elliptic to linear-elliptic, 1-3.5 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, 

 thickish, obtuse or acutish, 1-nerved, glabrous or in youth very sparsely incurved-puberulous; 

 peduncles 3-12 mm. long; racemes loose, 1.5-7 cm. long; flowers purplish and greenish ; sepals 

 oblong-ovate, obtuse, sparsely ciliolate, and usually bearing several pairs of pedicellate glands, 

 1.5-1.8 mm. long; wings broadly orbicular, emarginulate, short-clawed, strongly nerved, 4 mm. 

 long and wide; keel 4 mm. long; capsule oval, 3 mm. long, 2.4 mm. wide; seed silky-pilose, 

 2.5 mm. long; aril sparsely pilose, 0.8 mm. high. 



Type locality: New Providence. Bahamas. 



Distribution: Islands of Great Bahama, Andros, and New Providence, Bahama Islands. 



IX. Eurhinotropis. Fruticulose or frutescent ; sepals herbaceous, the upper usually 

 persistent, the lower free, deciduous; wings petaloid, deciduous; keel with a conic or cylindric 

 rarely obscure beak; capsule scarcely winged. 



94. Polygala Fishiae Parry, Proc. Davenport 



Acad. 4: 39. 1884. 



Frutescent, branched, 1-1.6 m. high, glabrous or very sparsely strigrllose; leaves narrowly 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 1.7-5 cm. long, 4—14 mm. wide, rounded or retuse, cuneate to 

 rounded at base, glabrous; racemes 2.5-20 cm. long, 6-35-flowered; pedicels 8-11.5 mm. long 

 in fruit; flowers purplish, whitish, and yellowish, the lower subtended by oval leaf-like bracts 

 about 7 mm. long; sepals elliptic, obtuse, densely ciliolate, not persistent, 2.6-3.5 mm. long; 

 wings purplish, obovate, rounded, at base cuneate, finely ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, 8.5 mm. 

 long, 4.2 mm. wide; keel yellow, 8 mm. long, the beak short, curved, 0.7 mm. long; capsule 

 suborbicular, slightly narrowed at apex, 7.5 mm. long, 8.5 mm. wide; seed pilose, 5 mm. long; 

 aril 4 mm. long, the conic obtuse corneous umbo loosely pilose, 3 mm. long, the scarious border 

 1 mm. deep, irregularly dentate-lobulate. 



Type locality: Near Sauzal, Todos Santos Bay, Lower California. 

 Distribution: Los Angeles County, California, to northern Lower California. 

 Illustration: Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. 52. 



