140 MONOGRAPHIA POLYGALACEARUM. 
Var. aparinoides. 
Caulis brevis, crassior, angulatus, divaricate et sæpe subdichotome ramosus, 
racemis numerosis, Capsulis ellipticis. 
P. aparimnoides Hook et Arnott. 
Habitat in Texas : Drummond, 25-26. 
P. PRÆTER VISA, n. sp. 
Caules plures, graciles, virgati, striati supra basin subnudi; superne ramosi ; 
rami erecti, graciles, subnudi; folia inferiora anguste lanceolata, irregulariter 
5-4 verticillata quam internodia haud multo breviora sed sæpe subæquantia vel 
superantia, Supra sextimam partem caulis alterna atque acicularia, sparsa; racemi 
graciles, elongati, pedunculati; sepalum superius late ovatum; alæ elliptico-orbi- 
culares; petala superiora elliptica, rotundata haud rhomboidalia; capsula elliptica, 
basi attenuata ; semina oblonga, sericeo-hirsuta ; appendicula dimidium semen attin- 
gentia vel superantia. 
Tab. nostra. XX, fig. 19—20. 
Curtiss, 503, sub nom. P. ambigua Nutt. 
Ab ea, floribus majoribus (‘/,), petalis superioribus elliptico-rotundatis, haud 
rhomboiïdalibus, minoribus, capsula haud triangulari atque seminum appendiculis 
multo longioribus. 
P. LEPTOSTACHYS, Shuttlew. 
Caulis filiformis, pauciramosus vel simplex ; folia inferiora lanceolata, brevia ; 
superiora lineari-acicularia quam internodia sæpe 6 X breviora, erecta; racemi 
graciles densiflori longe pedunculati; flores parvi subsessiles ; alæ ellipticæ obtusæ, 
trinerviæ; petala superiora rhomboidalia quam carina longiora; fructus ellipticus 
alis sublongior atque latior ; semina glabra, biappendiculata, tuberculata. 
Shuttleworth in Gray, Pt. Wright, 4, 41, Chapm. f.84, A.-W. Bennet in Journ. 
of bot. 1879, p. 202. 
Tabul. nostra. XX, fig. 21. 
Ab omnibus hujus sectionis, caulibus, foliis quam internodia multo brevioribus 
sat distincta. 
