Part 5, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 349 



ram. wide, obtuse, the middle and upper narrowly lanceolate or lance-obovate, acute, 8-17 

 mm. long, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, the uppermost alternate; racemes very slenderly cylindric, 3-4.8 

 mm. thick, the axis 2.2-9.5 cm. long; bracts lance-subulate, subpersistent, 0.6-0.8 mm. long; 

 flowers white and greenish; sepals suborbicular-ovate, subacute, sparsely ciliolate, 0.7-1.2 

 mm. long; wings broadly elliptic, 2 mm. long, 1.4 mm. wide, broadly rounded, short-cuneate 

 at base, 5-nerved; keel 2 mm. long, the crest of 3 lobes on each side; capsule oblong-elliptic, 

 2 mm. long, 1.5 ram. wide; seed pilosulous, 1.6 mm. long; aril 1 mm. high, with tiny umbo, 

 the 2 lobes appressed, linear-oblong. 



Type locality: Adelaide Settlement, New Providence, Bahama Islands. 



Distribution: Bahama Islands. 



Illustration: Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. 58. 



116. Polygala asperuloid.es H.B.K. Nov. 

 Gen. &Sp. 5: 403. 1823. 



Polygala galioides major A. W. Benn. in Mart. FI. Bras. 13': 29, as to synonym. 1874. 

 Polygala galioides as peruloidcs Britton; Morong & Britton, Ann. N. Y. Acad. 7: 52, as to synonym. 

 1892. 



Stems 1 or 2 from a slender annual root, erectish or loosely spreading/branched or subsimple, 

 8-30 cm. long; leaves all in whorls of 5, or the uppermost sometimes in 2's or 3's, the lower 

 orbicular-obovate, 7-9 mm. long, 4.5-5 mm. wide, the middle and upper lanceolate or lance- 

 elliptic, 9-19 mm. long, 2.7-7 mm. wide, cuspidate, with narrow crenate-denticulate margin; 

 racemes 3-5 mm. thick, 1-5 cm. long; pedicels 0.4 mm. long; sepals orbicular-ovate to oblong, 

 obtuse, sometimes ciliolate, 0.6-1 mm. long; flowers faintly pinkish; wings broadly elliptic, 

 1.6 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, rounded, short-clawed; keel 2 mm. long, the crest of 3 lobes on each 

 side; capsule suborbicular, 1.3-1.6 mm. long, 1.2-1.5 mm. wide; seed appressed-pilose, 1.5 

 mm. long; aril 1.1 mm. deep, the 2 lobes oblong, appressed. 



Type locality: [Tropical America]. 



Distribution: Guatemala and British Honduras; Panama; also in Colombia. 



Illustration: Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. 63. 



117. Polygala Sinaloae Blake, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash. 32: 189. 1919. 



Slender annual, about 1.5 dm. high, sparsely branched; leaves remote, whorled to middle 

 of stem or higher, the lowest in 2's or 3's, oval to elliptic, 6-12 mm. long, the middle in 5's, 

 elliptic-linear, acuminate at each end, cuspidulate, 1-1.8 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, those 

 of the branchlets mostly scattered, linear, 4-8 mm. long; racemes cylindric or conic, acute, 

 rather loose, 5 mm. thick, the axis 1-2.5 cm. long; pedicels 0.8 mm. long; bracts ovate, decidu- 

 ous; flowers magenta-pink; sepals broadly oval to ovate, apiculate to acuminate, stipitate- 

 glandular-ciliate, 0.8-1.2 mm. long; wings obovate, 2.8 mm. long, 1.4 mm. wide, rounded, 

 3-nerved; keel 2 mm. long, the crest of 4 lobes on each side; capsule oval, 1.7 mm. long, 1.4 

 mm. wide; seed pubescent, 1.6 mm. long; aril 1 mm. high, the 2 lobes oblong. 



Type locality: Quebrada de la Mojonera, San Ignacio, Sinaloa. 

 Distribution: Known only from the tvpe locality. 



118. Polygala flagellaris Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. 3: 427. 1905. 



Stems several or many from a thick perennial root, spreading or ascending, densely leafy, 

 1.5-5.8 dm. long; leaves in whorls of 3-5 to middle or nearly to apex of stem, usually equaling 

 or exceeding the internodes, cuneate- or spatulate-obovate, 4-10 mm. long, 0.7-4 mm. wide, 

 obtuse to acute, mucronulate, abruptly or gradually narrowed into the petiole-like base, some- 

 times so strongly involute as to appear lanceolate or linear, thickish, reticulate-veined; the 

 upper similar, linear or linear-lanceolate; racemes cylindric, acuminate, dense or rather loose, 

 4-7 mm. thick, the axis 2.5-24.5 cm. long; bracts subulate, deciduous, ciliolate, 1.3-1.8 mm. 

 long; pedicels 0.2-0.4 mm. long; flowers whitish and greenish; sepals ovate, obtuse or acutish, 

 ciliolate, 1.4-1.8 mm. long; wings obovate-oval, 2.4-3 mm. long, 1.6-1.9 mm. wide, broadly 



