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3. Monnina Schlechtendaliana D. Dietr. 

 Syn. PI. 4: 912. 1847. 



^Monnina mexicana G. Don, Gen. Hist. 1: 367. 1831. 



? Monnina caerulea G. Don, Gen. Hist. 1: 367. 1831. 



Monnina angustifolia Schlecht. Linnaea 14: 380. 1840. Not M. anguslifolia DC. 1824. 



Monnina stenophylla Steud. Nom. ed. 2. 2:157. 1841. Not M. stenophylla St. -Hil. 1829. 



Monnina eriodada Gand. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 60: 455. 1913. 



Branching shrub, the branches in youth densely and usually griseously pilose-tomentose 

 with spreading crisped hairs, in age subglabrate; leaves elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or lance- 

 elliptic, 4.5-8 cm. long, 1-2.4 cm. wide, short-acuminate, mucronate, at base acuminate, thin 

 and strictly herbaceous, above finely appressed-puberulous, subglabrate, beneath similarly 

 puberulous and along costa spreading-pilose with loose somewhat deciduous hairs; petioles 

 2-5 mm. long; peduncles terminal and axillary towards tips of branches, solitary or few, pubes- 

 cent like the stem, 3-13 mm. long; racemes conic or cylindric-conic, acute, not at all comose, 

 dense, 8-13 mm. thick, the axis 6 cm. long or less; bracts ovate, acutish, deciduous, 1.2 mm. 

 long; pedicels 1.5-2 mm. long; flowers purplish; sepals oval-ovate to (lower) triangular-ovate, 

 rounded, free, 1.8-2.3 mm. long; wings suborbicular, cucullate at the broadly rounded apex, 

 4-4.8 mm. long, 4-4.2 mm. wide, ciliate about to middle or nearly to apex on upper side, 

 5-nerved; keel 4.5-5 mm. long; apex of staminal tube pilose, the filaments glabrous; fruit ob- 

 liquely ellipsoid, obtuse, plump, margined on the upper side, coarsely rugose-reticulate, 6-7 

 mm. long. 



Type locality: Near City of Mexico, Mexico. 

 Distribution: Tepic to Morelos. 



4. Monnina xalapensis H. 6. K. Nov. 

 Gen. &Sp. 5: 414. 1823. 



Hebeandra evonymoides Bonpl. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin Mag. 2: 42. 1808. Not Monnina evony- 



moides Schlecht. 1840. 

 ?Monnina bifurcala DC. Prodr. 1: 339. 1824. 

 IMonnina ciliolala DC. Prodr. 1: 340. 1824. 

 ?Monnina obscura G. Don, Gen. Hist. 1: 367. 1831. 

 IMonnina ciliolosa G. Don, Gen. Hist. 1: 368. 1831. 



Monnina Ocampi Villada, Mem. Trab. Com. Cient. Pachuca 215. 1865. 

 ~>Polygala baccifera Sesse & Moc. PI. Nov. Hisp. 1 14. 1889. 

 Monnina aesluans xalapensis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 48. 1891. 



Shrub about 3 m. high, much branched; branches sparsely or rather densely strigillose 

 (the hairs very rarely ascending, not appressed), subglabrate; leaves oblanceolate or obovate- 

 elliptic to elliptic, 3.2-8.5 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acuminate or acute, usually cuspidate, acute 

 to acuminate at base, herbaceous to subchartaceous, rather sparsely strigillose both sides; 

 petioles 3-7 mm. long; peduncles axillary and terminal, 0.8-3 cm. long; racemes dense or 

 loose below, obtuse, not at all comose, 1-1.5 cm. thick, the axis 11 cm. long or less; bracts 

 triangular-ovate, acute to obtuse, dorsally pubescent, deciduous, 1.2-2.2 mm. long; pedicels 

 1.2-2 mm. long; flowers purplish; sepals triangular-ovate to oblong-ovate, free, acute to 

 obtuse, ciliate and strigillose, 1.8-3.2 mm. long; wings suborbicular-oval or oval, 5-6 mm. 

 long, 4.2-5 mm. wide, broadly rounded and cucullate, ciliate throughout or only to middle on 

 upper margin; keel 5.5-6.3 mm. long; apex of staminal sheath and base of filaments pilose; 

 fruit ellipsoid-ovoid, obtuse, rugose-reticulate, 6-8.5 mm. long. 



Type locality: Jalapa, Veracruz. 



Distribution: Veracruz to Guatemala; Costa Rica. 



Illustration: Mem. Trab. Com. Cient. Pachuca, pi. 



5. Monnina latisepala Blake, sp. nov. 

 Shrub 1-2 m. high; branches rather densely short-strigose and more sparsely spreading- 

 pilose; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 5-7.5 cm. long, 1.6-2.3 cm. wide, broadest at or slightly above 

 the middle, falcate-acuminate, acuminate at base, subchartaceous, above strigillose and espe- 

 cially along costa pubescent with short straight spreading hairs, beneath strigillose on surface 

 or ascending-puberulous, along costa and sometimes along the 5-6 pairs of lateral veins spread- 

 ing-pilosulous; petioles 2-4 mm. long; peduncles few, axillary and terminal, strigillose and 



