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leaflet elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 4-9 cm. long, obtuse or acutish, 

 entire, closely-pubescent, rounded or obtuse at the base; petioles 

 as long as the leaflet-blade or shorter; stipules wanting or ob- 

 solete: raceme erect, 1-3 dm. long, continuous, the rachis 

 pubescent like the stem: bracts lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, 

 fugaceous, acuminate: calyx about i cm. long, with a pair of 

 lanceolate-subulate bractlets adnate to the short tube, silvery- 

 pubescent; lips much longer than the tube, the lower lip broadly 

 ovate, with two deltoid lobes at the apex, the upper lip lanceo- 

 late, entire or obscurely 3-lobed at the apex: corolla mainly 

 blue; standard 1.5 cm. long, the blade orbicular-ovate, with a 

 central red-purple spot: wing-petals 1. 5 cm. long, the blade very 

 wide, with a broad blunt basal lobe: keel less than 1.5 cm. long, 

 scimitar-shaped, the blade with a more or less spreading or 

 outcurved sharp basal auricle: pod elliptic, turgid, about 2.5 

 cm. long, closely shaggy-villous, the beak nearly central. — 

 Sand-dunes along or near the coast, middle and western Florida. 

 Types in the herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden, 

 for flowers, St. Andrews, Florida, J. K. Small, May, 1926; for 

 fruit, G. M. West, July, 1926. 



John K. Small 



A New^ Candy-root from Florida. About a dozen species 

 of the twenty-seven polygalas growing naturally in Florida are 

 endemic. A few of the endemic ones are restricted in their 

 geographic ranges — Polygala praetervisa to the lower Florida 

 Keys, P. arenicola, P. flagellaris, P. miamensis to the Everglade 

 Keys, P. Lewtonii to the "Ridge,"* P. cumulicola to the lower 

 eastern coast sand-dunes. The other endemics are mostly 

 widely distributed in the State. 



While collecting in the Coronado-Turtle Mound region of 

 Florida last May (the twenty-fourth day) we discovered an 

 undescribed species at two localities, both of them hammock 

 clad: one, the primeval hammock a few miles south of the 

 settlement of Coronado, the other, the celebrated Turtle Mound. 

 Both of these stations are on ground which less than four 

 centuries ago was actively occupied by the now extinct Florida 

 aborigines, hence it is appropriate to designate the species in 

 question: 



Polygala aboriginum Small, sp. nov. Plant similar to 

 Polygala polygama in habit, mostly 1-3 dm. tall: stem erect 



* The southern end of the Lake Region. 



