Part 5, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 357 



whorls) linear, 7-13 mm. long, 0.6-1.2 mm. wide, acuminate, mucronate; branch leaves linear, 

 scattered or sometimes whorled; peduncles 2-4.5 cm. long; racemes capitate, rounded, dense, 

 4-9 mm. long, 5.5-6 mm. thick; pedicels 1.2-1.5 mm. long; flowers roseate or greenish- white ; 

 sepals orbicular-ovate to ovate, blunt or subacute, 0.S-1 mm. long; wings oval, short-clawed, 

 1.8 mm. long, 1.1 mm. wide; keel 1.5 mm. long, the crest on each side of 2 entire to trifid papil- 

 lose-margined lobes; capsule orbicular-oval, 1.3 mm. long, 1.1mm. wide; seed short-pubescent, 

 1 mm. long; aril 0.7 mm. high, the 2 oblong lobes appressed. 



Type locality: Orizaba, Veracruz. 



Distribution: Jalisco to Veracruz and Guatemala. 



Illustrations: Mem. Soc Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 20, f. 22; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. 59. 



141. Polygala sphaerocephala Chod. Bot. Jahrb. 52: Beibl. 

 115: 80. 1914. 



Simple or corymbosely branched annual, 5-6 cm. high; cotyledons and basal leaves oppo- 

 site, broadly spatulate, 3 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide; lower leaves once or twice verticillate, the 

 others alternate, 5-6 mm. long, 0.6-1.5 mm. wide, those of the branches smaller; racemes 

 capitate, 4.5-5 mm. thick, on naked peduncles 7-10 mm. long; pedicels less than 1 mm. long; 

 flowers 1-1.3 mm. long; upper sepal broadly ovate, the lower ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; 

 wings broadly lance-elliptic, obtuse or subacute, 3-nerved, exceeding the corolla; keel with a 

 few-lobed crest; capsule elliptic; seed ovoid, sparsely hairy; aril less than half as long as seed, 

 its lobes spatulate. 



Type localty: Patzcuaro. Michoacan. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



142. Polygala cnicianelloides DC. Prodr. 1: 329. 1824. 



Stem slender, erect, branched above, slightly puberulous, 1.5-2.5 dm. high, the branches 

 often opposite; leaves mostly in whorls of 5, rhomboidal, angled, revolute, 6-7 mm. long, 4 

 mm. wide; racemes short, terminal ; flowers rosy, 3 mm. long; sepals unequal, the upper ellip- 

 tic, acute, the lower shorter, lanceolate, acute, green on back, membranaceous on margin, 

 one-third as long as wings; wings elliptic, subobtuse, very short-clawed; keel equaling the 

 upper petals or shorter, the crest multifid, with simple or bifid segments; fruit unknown. 



Type locality: Santo Domingo. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustration: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 20. f. 11, 12. 



143. Polygala saginoides Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 13. 1866. 



Stems several to many, loosely spreading from a slender woody root, 2-28 cm. long; leaves 

 linear to linear-lanceolate, or the lower oval, 2-9 mm. long, 0.4-0.9 mm. wide, the lower or 

 sometimes nearly all in whorls of 5, at least the upper alternate, acute to acuminate, cuspidate, 

 revolute; peduncles 3-11 mm. long; racemes dense, ovoid, somewhat apiculate, up to 30- 

 flowered, 3.5-5 mm. thick, the axis 2-16 mm. long; bracts ovate, mostly deciduous, 0.5 mm. 

 long; pedicels 0.2-0.4 mm. long; flowers whitish with green or reddish nerves; sepals oval to 

 ovate, obtuse, 1.1-1,3 mm. long; wings obovate, 2.5 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide, strongly retuse, 

 cuneate at base; keel 2 mm. long, the crest on each side of 3 deeply divided lobes; capsule 

 elliptic-ovate, green with white and rosy glandular lines, 2 mm. long, 1.4 mm. wide; seed obo- 

 void-ellipsoid, appressed-pilose, 1.8 mm. long; aril 1.3 mm. high, with small umbo and 2 linear 

 lobes. 



Type locality: [Cachillas de Baracoa and San Marcos], Cuba. 

 Distribution: Oriente and Camaguey, Cuba. 



Illustrations: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) J : pi. 20, f. 34, 35b; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 

 pi. 2, f. 55. 



144. Polygala spathulata Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 13. 1866. 



Stems many from a woody base, slender, spreading, 4-28 cm. long; leaves all in whorls of 

 4, spatulate-obovate, 3.5-9 mm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, mucronate at the rounded apex, cuneate 

 at base, slightly glandular-denticulate on margin, glabrous; racemes 4- 1 0-flowered, subsessile 



