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the rounded to acute apex, euneate at base, thickish, usually slightly revolute; peduncles 1 cm. 

 long or less; racemes cylindric, acutish becoming obtuse, loose, 1-1.7 cm. thick, the axis 1-7 

 cm. long; bracts oval-ovate, deciduous, 1-1.4 mm. long; pedicels 1.4-2.2 mm. long; flowers 

 rosy-purplish; sepals oval, glabrous, rounded, 1.6-2.2 mm. long; wings oval or oval-oblong, 

 5-5.2 mm. long, 2.3-3.4 mm. wide, broadly rounded or emarginulate, euneate or cuneate- 

 unguiculate at base, glabrous, about 7-nerved; keel 4-4.6 mm. long, the crest on each side of a 

 lamella and 2 several-parted lobes; capsule oblong, 4.1-4.3 mm. long, 1.8-2 mm. wide; seed 

 ellipsoid-cylindrie, short-pilose, 3.2-3.5 mm. long; aril 2-2.5 mm. deep, the umbo corneous, 

 grading into the 2 obovate appressed scarious lobes. 



Type locality: Frostproof, Polk County, Florida. 

 Distribution: Orange, Lake, and Polk counties, Florida. 



150. Polygala glochidiata H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 

 5: 400. 1823. 



Polygala glochidiata typica Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 91. 1916. 

 Polygala glochidiata leucantha Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 91. 1916. 



Very slender annual, 3.2 dm. high or less, usually freely branched, finely pedicellate-glan- 

 dular; leaves whorled in 5's to middle of stem or higher, the lowest lance-obovate, 3-4.5 mm. 

 long, 1 mm. wide, the middle and upper linear or linear-lanceolate, 5-12.5 mm. long, 0.5-1.5 

 mm. wide, cuspidate, slightly revolute; peduncles 1-4 cm. long; racemes cylindric, rather 

 loose, 4.5-6 mm. thick, the axis 1.3-8 cm. long; pedicels 0.6-0.8 mm. long; flowers rosy-purple, 

 rarely white; sepals elliptic to oblong, obtuse, 0.9-1.2 mm. long; wings obovate-oval, 2.3-2.5 

 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide, rounded, short-cuneate at base, 3-nerved; keel 2.1 mm. long, the 

 crest of 3-4 lobes on each side; capsule elliptic, 1.5 mm. long; seed 1.1 mm. long, clothed 

 with incurved uncinate-tipped hairs, spreading when wet; aril obsolete. 



Type locality: Near Esmeralda, Venezuela. 



Distribution: Lower California and northern Mexico to Guatemala; Cuba; also in South 

 America. 



Illustrations: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 21, f. 15, 16; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 

 pi. 2, f, 67. 



151. Polygala uncinata C. Wright; Millsp. Field Mus. 

 Publ. Bot. 1: 429. 1900. 



Very slender erect annual, 1.3-3.5 dm. high, simple or sparsely branched above, glabrous 

 or sparsely papillose-glandular, often essentially naked at flowering time; lowest leaves in 3-6 

 remote whorls of 2-5, elliptic, 1.5-4 mm. long, 0.3-0.9 mm. wide, acute, thickish; lower, middle, 

 and upper leaves scattered, scale-like, subulate or lance-subulate, 1-2 mm. long, 0.2-0.6 mm. 

 wide, acuminate, sessile by a broad base; bracts lanceolate, ciliolate, deciduous, 0.8 mm. long; 

 pedicels 1-1.3 mm. long; flowers purplish-pink; sepals oval to lance-elliptic, rounded or obtuse, 

 glabrous, 1.2-1.8 mm. long; wings oval, 3 mm. long, 1.8-2 mm. wide, rounded, short-clawed, 

 3-nerved; keel 2.8 mm. long, the crest on each side of a lamella and 2 deeply 2-3-fid lobes; 

 capsule suborbicular-oval, 1.5-2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; seed shortly apiculate at base, 

 uncinate-pilose, 0.9-1 mm. long; aril obsolete. 



Type locality: Isle of Pines. 



Distribution: Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines. 



152. Polygala Berlandieri S. Wats. Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 21: 416. 1886. 

 Slender annual, generally freely branched, 7-17 cm. high, densely pedicellate-glandular; 

 leaves whorled or subverticillate in 4's or 5's toward base but mostly alternate, linear, 5-19 

 mm. long, 0.5-1.5 mm. wide, acute to acuminate, cuspidate; peduncles 1 cm. long or less; 

 racemes cylindric, rather loose, the axis becoming 3-5 cm. long; pedicels 0.8 mm. long; flowers 

 white or pinkish; sepals orbicular-ovate to ovate-oblong, acutish to obtuse, 1.2 mm. long; wings 

 spatulate-obovate, 2.3 mm. long, 1.1 mm. wide, rounded, 3-nerved; keel 2.3 mm. long, the 

 crest on each side of 2 lobes; capsule narrowly elliptic, 3.3 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide; seed 

 (including coma) 2.5 mm. long, appressed-silky-pubescent; aril 0.5 mm. long, 2-lobed. 



