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Polygala calvipES Schlecht. Linnaea 14: 160. 1840. No specimen answering to the 

 description has been examined. 



Polygala capiTaTa Sesse & Moc. Fl. Mex. ed. 2. 163. 1894. Indeterminable. 



Polygala ConzaTTii Gand. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 60: 454. 1913. Not P. Conzattii Rose, 

 1911. Not determinable from description. 



Polygala galioidES Poir. The specimens recorded by Hemsley (Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 

 1 : 59) under this name represent P. aparinoides H. & A., P. lurgida Rose, and P. subalata S. 

 Wats. 



Polygala hebEcarpa DC. Prodr. 1: 330. 1824. Polygala americana hebecarpa A. W. 

 Benn. Jour. Bot. 17: 139. 1879. Santo Domingo, Nectoux. 



Polygala inaEQUiloba Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 27 2 : 349. 1854. Mexico, Galeotti 

 877 bis. 



Polygala minuTiFLORa Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 100. 1835. 



Polygala nemoralis A. W. Benn. Jour. Bot. 17: 172. 1879. Based on three collections, 

 the two Mexican and Central American being P. aparinoides H. & A.; the third, Mandon 839, 

 to which the name must be restricted, is a distinct Bolivian species. 



Polygala nutkana Moc. ; DC. Prodr. 1: 330. 1824. (Moc. & Sesse, Calq. Dess. pi. 39.) 

 A very doubtful species, wrongly identified with P. californica Nutt. by Chodat. 



Polygala ovaTa Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 5: 498. 1S04. Santo Domingo, Nectoux. 



Polygala platycarpa Benth. Recorded by Bennett (Jour. Bot. 17: 139), doubtless 

 erroneously. Both Hemsley and Chodat wrongly attribute the original Hartweg specimens 

 (from Guayaquil) to Mexico. 



Polygala pubEscEns gracilis Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : 22. 1893. Not 

 seen ; based on Galeotti 898. Evidently related to P. compacta Rose. 



Polygala pulchELLA Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 230. 1830. Not P. pulchella St.- 

 Hil. 1S29. Veracruz, Schiede & Deppe. 



Polygala quadrangula Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 100. 1835. 



Polygala spErgulaEFOLia St. Hil. Recorded (as a synonym of P. glochidiata H.B.K.) 

 by Bennett (Jour. Bot. 17: 202). True P. spergulaefolia is a South American species, or a 

 variety of P. glochidiata. 



Polygala sTrigulosa Schlecht. Linnaea 14: 160. 1840. Perhaps the same as P. obscura 

 Benth. 



Polygala trichosperma L. South American; Hemsley's and Bennett's records refer 

 to P. longicaulis H.B.K. 



Polygala velutina Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 100. 1S35. 



Polygala vulgaris Sesse & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 114. 1889. Not P. vulgaris h. 1753. 

 Indeterminable. 



2. ELSOTA Adans. Fam. PL 2: 358. 1763. 



Securidaca Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 27. 1760. Not Securidaca L. 1753. 



Corytholobium Benth. Ann. Wiener Mus. 2: 93. 1837, 



Lophostylis Hochst. Flora 25: 229. 1842. 



Rodechiedia Miq. Linnaea 18: 585. 1844. Not Rodschiedia Gaertn. 1800. 



Securidula Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 769 (index). 1864. 



Shrubs or trees, usually scandent. Leaves alternate, entire, usually oval or ovate, short- 

 petioled, usually with corneous peziziform stipular glands. Flowers medium-sized or large, in 

 terminal and axillary often panicled racemes. Sepals 5, free, deciduous, the three outer 

 herbaceous, the two inner (wings) much larger, petaloid. Petals 3, deciduous, united at 

 base, the lower (keel) boat-shaped, clawed, with a subapical fimbriate crest; the two upper 

 united to staminal tube at base, mostly oblong. Stamens 8, the filaments united nearly to 

 apex into a sheath split on the upper side, adnate to keel and to upper petals toward base; 

 anthers confluently 1-celled, opening by a large introrse-apical pore. Disk a low fleshy ring at 

 base of ovary. Ovary 1-celled; style sickle-shaped, excavated at apex; stigma-lobes 2, approxi- 

 mate; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded samara, with a large wing on the 

 lower side, margined or marginless or rarely nearly equally winged on the upper. Seed gla- 

 brous, exarillate; testa thin; endosperm none; cotyledons thick-fleshy, oily, conferruminate. 



Type species, Securidaca scandens L. in part, not Jacq. (i.e., Polygala diversifolia L.). 



