Part 5, 1924] POLYGALACEAE 379 



slightly thickened margin, shortly cinerascent- or cinerascent-rufescent-hirsutulous both sides, 

 penninerved, the younger leaves toraentose; racemes comose, supra-axillary or subpaniculate, 

 at length loosely flowered, the rachis hirsutulous; flowers subsessile, 5 mm. long and wide; 

 sepals broadly ovate-triangular, ciliate, glabrescent, colorate; wings obovate-cuneate, not 

 clawed; staminal sheath comose in the middle. 



Type locality: Mexico. t 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Doubtful species 



Monnina CrEpini Chod. Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 30 1 : 302. 1891. Suffruticose, with thick 

 pubescent branches; leaves lanceolate, 10 cm. long, 5 cm. wide, acute, long-petioled, in youth 

 hirsute, glabrescent but rugose; racemes dense; bracts short, very hirsute; pedicels very 

 short, very hirsute; sepals ovate-oblong, ciliate and pubescent, all free; wings obovate-orbicu- 

 lar, ciliate at base; keel slightly emarginate; upper petals triangular, rounded; staminal sheath 

 pilose, the filaments glabrous. Paramos de Buena Vista, altitude 5000 meters, Costa Rica. 

 — Not examined. Said to have the largest flowers of any species, but no dimensions are given. 



Monnina pTEROCarpa R. & P. Syst. Fl. Peru. & Chil. 174. 1798. This Peruvian species 

 is recorded by Hemsley (Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 1: 63) from Panama, probably erroneously. 



