Part 5, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 377 



spreading-pilose, 1.5-3 cm. long; racemes loose, obtuse, not at all comose, 3.8-5.5 cm. long, 

 about 1.3 cm. thick; bracts triangular-ovate, short-pointed, strigillose and sparsely short 

 pilose, deciduous, 2-2.2 mm. long; pedicels 2.5-3 mm. long; flowers purplish-blue in drying 

 upper sepal oblate-suborbicular, abruptly short-pointed with obtusish apex, 7-nerved, short 

 ciliate, toward base strigillose and sparsely ascending-pilose, 3.2 mm. long, 3.3-3.8 mm. wide 

 lower sepals free, depressed-ovate-reniform, very short-pointed, 3-3.2 mm. long, 3.9-4 mm. 

 wide; wings suborbicular, 6-6.2 mm. long, 6 mm. wide, cucullate at the rounded apex, broadly 

 cuneate at base, ciliate toward base especially on upper margin, 6-7-nerved; keel 6.S mm. long; 

 apex of staminal sheath and base of filaments pilose; submature fruit oblong-ovoid, obtuse, 

 rugose-reticulate, scarcely margined, sparsely pubescent at base, 6.5 mm. long. 



Type collected at Alto de Cuesta. around Camp Aguacatal, eastern slope of Chiriqui Volcano, 

 Panama, altitude 2100-2200 meters, March 10-13, 191 1, H. Pitlier3U9 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 677510). 



6. Monnina costaricensis Chod. Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. 30 l : 304. 1891. 



Shrub; branches sparsely or rather densely incurved-puberulous, subglabrate; leaves 

 elliptic to lance-ovate or ovate, 4-9.8 cm. long, 1-3.6 cm. wide, acuminate, acutely cuneate at 

 base, thin, rather sparsely incurved-puberulous, the hairs denser and longer along the veins 

 beneath, subglabrate above, the 4-5 pairs of veins prominulous and somewhat reticulate 

 beneath; petioles 4-7 mm. long; peduncles few, axillary and terminal, 7-18 mm. long; racemes 

 rather loose, slightly comose, obtuse, 6-13 mm. thick, the axis 6.5 cm. long or less; bracts 

 ovate-subulate, acuminate, ciliate and somewhat pubescent, deciduous, 3 mm. long; pedicels 

 2.5 mm. long; flowers purplish; upper sepal ovate, acute, ciliate and somewhat pubescent, 

 2.5 mm. long; lower sepals similar, connate for one-half to two-thirds their length, acuminate, 

 2.2 mm. long; wings suborbicular, cucullate at the rounded apex, broadly rounded at base, 

 4.5 mm. long, 4.8 mm. wide, glabrous, 5-nerved; keel 4.5 mm. long; staminal sheath pilose 

 at apex, the filaments glabrous or pilose only at base; fruit ovoid, plump, cugose-reticulate, 

 8 mm. long. 



Type locality: Rancho Flores, Costa Rica. 

 Distribution: Costa Rica. 



7. Monnina Pittieri Chod. Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Belg. 30': 303. 1891. 



Shrub; branches strigillose and rather densely short-pubescent with spreading or ascend- 

 ing hairs; leaves narrowly lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic, 4-10 cm. long, 1-3.3 cm. 

 wide, acuminate or acute at each end, usually falcate, pergamentaceous to subcoriaceous, above 

 sparsely strigillose or subglabrate, beneath sparsely strigillose, along costa and sometimes along 

 the 5-6 pairs of obscure lateral veins rather sparsely short-spreading-pilose; petioles 3-12 mm. 

 long; peduncles axillary and terminal, 7-17 mm. long; racemes dense or rather loose, acute 

 or obtuse, slightly comose at apex, the axis 8.5 cm. long or less; bracts ovate to lance-ovate, 

 acuminate, ciliate and pubescent, deciduous, 2.5-3 mm. long; pedicels densely ascending- or 

 spreading-puberulous, 2-3 mm. long; flowers apparently purplish; sepals ovate or elliptic- 

 ovate, obtuse to acutish, ciliate, sparsely pubescent, free, 3.5-4.4 mm. long; wings suborbicu- 

 lar, 5.5-6 mm. long, 5-5.2 mm. wide, rounded and cucullate, rounded at base, ciliate on upper 

 margin about to middle, 7-nerved; keel 6-6.3 mm. long; apex of staminal sheath and base of 

 filaments pilose; fruit ellipsoid-ovoid, obtuse, rugose-reticulate, 7.5 mm. long. 



Type locality: Woods near Esmeralda, Costa Rica. 



Distribution: Mountains of Costa Rica, at altitudes of 2200 to 3100 meters. 



8. Monnina crispata Blake, sp. nov. 



Branching, doubtless shrubby; stem rather stout, densely and at least in youth subgrise- 

 ously incurved- or incurved-spreading-puberulous; leaves elliptic-ovate to oval, 5.5-12 cm. 

 long, 2-4.8 cm. wide, pointed or acuminate, cuneate or cuneate-rounded at base, thin, rather 

 densely incurved-puberulous both sides, the 5-6 pairs of lateral veins prominulous beneath; 



