Part 5, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 361 



Type locality: Sacahuales, between Tula and Tampico, Tamaulipas. 

 Distribution : Lower California and northern Mexico to Guatemala and Salvador. 

 Illustrations: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : pi. 21, f. 29,30; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 

 pi. 2, f. 68. 



153. Polygala brachyptera Griseb. Cat. PI. 

 Cub. 12. 1866. 



Very slender annual, simple or sparsely branched above, 1.7-2.8 dm. long, glabrous; leaves 

 (except a single basal whorl) scattered, linear, 3-6 mm. long, 0.3-0.5 mm. wide, cuspidate; 

 peduncles 1.3-2 cm. long; racemes conic, dense, 4-6 mm. thick, 3-11 mm. long; pedicels 0.7 

 mm. long; flowers yellowish-green, drying white, green-veined; sepals oval to oval-oblong, 

 acute, bearing 2 oval glands toward base, 1-1.5 mm. long; wings narrowly elliptic, 1.8 mm. 

 long, 1 mm. wide, abruptly pointed, not clawed, 3-nerved; keel 2.4 mm. long, the crest on each 

 side of- 3 lobes; capsule ovate-elliptic, 3.5 mm. long, 1.7 mm. wide, bearing a series of oblong 

 glands near the septum; seed (including coma) 2.6 mm. long, appressed-silky-pilose; aril infra- 

 apical, 0.4 mm. long, the 2 lobes linear. 



Type locality: Habo del Medir, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2)=: pi. 21, f. 35, 36; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 

 pi. 2, f. 69. 



154. Polygala longicaulis H.B.K. Nov. 

 Gen. &Sp. 5: 396. 1823. 



Polygala stellera DC. Prodr. 1: 327. 1824. 



Polygala longicaulis nana Chod. Mem. Soc. Phvs. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 183. 1893. 



Slender erect annual, subsimple or sparsely branched, 6 dm. high or less, glabrous or 

 sparsely pedicellate-glandular below; leaves all alternate (or a single whorl of 3 reduced narrow- 

 obovate ones at base), linear or linear-oblong or -lanceolate, 5-12 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, 

 acuminate, cuspidate; peduncles 2-20 cm. long, usually naked; racemes depressed-subglobose, 

 6-12 mm. long, 6-13 mm. thick, the axis becoming 3.5 cm. long; pedicels 2-2.5 mm. long; 

 flowers varying from (yellowish?) white to deep magenta-purple; sepals elliptic-ovate to ovate, 

 strongly cuspidate, 1.8-2.3 mm. long; wings elliptic, 4.5-5 mm. long, 1.6-2.3 mm. wide, 

 strongly cuspidate, cuneate-rounded at base, strongly 3-nerved; keel 4.7 mm. long, the crest 

 on each side of 3-4 lobes; capsule ovate-oblong, 3 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide; seed obconic, 

 silky-pilose, comose at apex, 2.5 mm. long (including coma) ; aril 2-lobed, 0.3 mm. long. 



Type locality: Near Caripe, Venezuela. 

 Distribution: Jalisco and the West Indies to South America. 



Illustrations: Mart. Fl. Bras. 13«: pi. 12, f. I; Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) J : pi. 21, 

 f. 41; Contr. Gray Herb. 47: pi. 2,f. TO. 70a. 



155. Polygala adenophora DC. Prodr. 1: 327. 1824. 



Polygala incarnata Aubl. PI. Guian. 739. 1775. Not P. incarnata L. 1753. 



Erect annual, 1.5-4.5 dm. high, simple or branched above, glabrous, sometimes papillose 

 below; leaves alternate, linear, 4-16 mm. long, 0.2-1 mm. wide, acuminate, revolute, erect or 

 ascending; peduncles 4 cm. long or less; racemes obtuse, dense, 7-12 mm. thick, the axis 1-4.8 

 cm. long; bracts ovate, deciduous, 1.2 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; flowers rosy; sepals 

 oval to ovate, apiculate to obtuse, 1.3-2 mm. long; wings narrowly elliptic, 4.7-5.3 mm. long, 

 1.4-1.7 mm. wide, obscurely apiculate or obtuse, 3-nerved; keel slender, 6.2-7.5 mm. long, the 

 crest on each side of a double row of 3-4 lobes, the inner series linear, the outer longer, spatu- 

 late, entire or bifid; capsule narrowly elliptic, erose-margined toward apex on lower side, 3.5-3.7 

 mm. long, 1-1.3 mm. wide; seed obconic, pilose, comose at apex, 1.8-2 mm. long; aril minute, 

 the lobes united into one. 



Type locality: French Guiana. 



Distribution: British Honduras; also from Trinidad and Venezuela to French Guiana. 

 Illustration: Mart. Fl. Bras. 13': pi. 12, f. II; Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) J : *(. 21, f. 

 33, 34. 



