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very slightly comose at apex, 1-3.8 cm. long, 5-6.5 mm. thick; sepals lanceolate, sub- 

 acuminate; wings broadly oval, purplish when fresh, greenish in drying, rounded, about 

 4-nerved, 2.S-4.6 mm. long, 1.8-2.8 mm. wide; keel 2-2.5 mm. long, the crest of 2 lobes on each 

 side; capsule orbicular-ovate, 1.2 mm. long; seed sparsely pubescent, plump, 1.2 mm. long; 

 aril 0.8 mm. long, the 2 lobes oblong. 



Type locality: Timoutou, French Guiana. 

 Distribution: Panama and Trinidad to Para, Brazil. 



Illustrations: Aubl. PI. Guian. pi. 295; Mart. Fl. Bras. 13 s : pi. 11, f. Ill; Mem. Soc. Phys. 

 Geneve 31 (2) 2 : pi. 21, f. 1-3; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. 66. 



132. Polygala Nuttallii T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 670. 1840. 



Polygala Torreyi Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : 194. 1893. Not P. Torreyi G. Don, 1831. 

 Slender erect annual, 5-25 cm. high; leaves all alternate, linear or the lower spatulate- 

 linear, 6-15 mm. long, 0.5-1 mm. wide, obtuse or acutish, usually mucronulate, revolute, erect 

 or appressed; racemes cylindric, obtuse or apiculate, dense or loose below, 4-6 mm. thick, 

 the axis 0.4-3 cm. long; bracts lance-subulate, spreading, ciliate, persistent, 1 mm. long; pedi- 

 cels 0.8-1 mm. long; flowers rosy-purple or greenish-white; sepals suborbicular to lance-ovate, 

 emarginate to acutish, glabrous, 0.8-1.1 mm. long; wings obovate or elliptic-obovate, 2.1-2.5 

 mm. long, 1.1-1.3 mm. wide, rounded, obscurely apiculate, cuneate at base, 3-4-nerved; keel 

 about 2 mm. long, the crest on each side of a lamella and an entire or bifid lobe ; capsule rhombic- 

 suborbicular, plump, with short stipe-like base, 2 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide; seed pyriform, 

 scarcely rostrate at base, rounded at apex, short-pilose, 1.1 mm. long; aril 0.35 mm. long, the 

 2 lobes elliptic, fastened to the extreme base of the seed, vertically descending, subappressed or 

 in contact with seed along their inner edge. 



Type locality: New Jersey. 



Distribution: Southern Massachusetts to Georgia, and westward to Alabama and Arkansas. 

 Illustrations: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : pi. 22, f. 19; Britt. & Brown. 111. Fl. /. 2284; 

 ed. 2. /. 2706. 



133. Polygala mariana Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. 

 Polygala no. 6. 1768. 



Polygala fasligiata Nutt. Gen. 2: 89. 1818. 



Slender erect annual, 1.5-4 dm. high, sparsely papillose-puberulent above; leaves all alter- 

 nate, linear or the lower spatulate, 6-24 mm. long, 0.5-2.5 mm. wide, cuspidate, usually ascend- 

 ing; racemes capitate or short-cylindric, obtuse or apiculate, 6-11 mm. thick, the axis 0.5-3.5 

 cm. long; bracts subulate-ovate, erose, often ciliolate, deciduous; pedicels 1.8-2 mm. long; 

 flowers pink or purple; sepals oval to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse to subacuminate, sometimes 

 ciliolate, 0.8-1.8 mm. long; wings elliptic-obovate, 2.7-3.6 mm. long, 1.3-2.2 mm. wide, 

 slightly apiculate, cuneate at base, 6-nerved; keel papillose below, 2.3-3.2 mm. long, the crest 

 on each side of a lamella and a single lobe; capsule suborbicular or rhombic-suborbicular, with 

 broad stipe-like sterile base, 2.2 mm. long, 1.8-2 mm. wide; seed subglobose-pyriform, rostrate 

 at base, rounded or apiculate at apex, short-pilose, 1.1 mm. long; aril 0.4 mm. long, the 2 ob- 

 long cellular lobes fastened to the point of seed, loosely descending and standing forward. 



Type locality: Maryland. 



Distribution: New Jersev to Florida, and westward to Kentucky and Texas. 



Illustrations: Pluk. Amalth. pi. 438, f. 5; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl./. 2283; ed. 2.f. 2705. 



134. Polygala Harped Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 688. 1903. 



Very slender erect annual, simple or branched above, 2.3-4.8 dm. high; leaves all alternate, 

 linear or the lower spatulate-linear, 8-18 mm. long, 0.5-2.S mm. wide, acute, mucronate, 

 slightly revolute; peduncles 4—17 mm. long; racemes subglobose-capitate, blunt or slightly 

 apiculate, rather dense, 8-12 mm. thick, the axis 3.2 cm. long or less; bracts ovate-subulate, 

 ciliate, deciduous, 1.2 mm. long; pedicels 2.2-2.8 mm. long; flowers rosy; sepals orbicular- 

 ovate to ovate, mucronulate to subacuminate, sparsely ciliate, 1.2-1.5 mm. long; wings obo- 

 vate or elliptic-obovate, 3.5-4.7 mm. long, 1.7-2 mm. wide, obtusish, submucronulate, cuneate 

 scarcely clawed at base, 3-5-nerved; keel 2.7-3 mm. long, the crest on each side of a lamella 



