176 MONOGRAPHIA POLYGALACEARUM. 
obtusa, subemarginata, alis persistentibus duplo longior, 3-4 mm. longa, 1-1'/, mm. 
lata, marginibus aliformibus omnino destituta. Semina oblonga, cylindrica, apice 
attenuata, pilis longis, adpressis, basi coronam partem ‘/, seminis æquantem for- 
mantibus, vestita. Appendicula sub apice seminis inserta, linearia vel lanceolata 
‘/.-'], Sseminis longitudine æquantia, membranacea. 
Area geogr. Quito-Popayan-Bogota ; Mexico in planitie Guadalajara et alibi. 
Var. Bogolensis. 
Floribus magis roseis, sepalis magis acutis, superiore haud orbicalari sed trian- 
gulari, antheris longius pedicellatis, diversa, omnibus aliis characteribus, cum 
P. Berlandieri conveniens. 
Leg. Hartweg : Quito-Popayan-Bogota ubi? n° 899. 
P. BOLIVIENSIS, A.-W. Bennet. 
Caulis erectus, herbaceus; folia linearia conferta; racemi elongati, sublaxiflori, 
rosei; flores pedicellati, parvi; sepala exteriora subobtusa; al lanceolatæ sub- 
acutæ, trinerviæ, corollam superantes; petala superiora carinam cristatam supe- 
rantia, anguste atque irregulariter lanceolata, obtusa ; antheræ subsessiles; stigma 
superius eristatum; crista carinæ laciniala; capsula fere linearis, apice attenuata 
atque subretusa, alas paulo superans; semina cylindrico-conica, apice acuta ; 
appendicula duo, lanceolata, minima sub apice inserta, pila seminis breves, basi- 
lares, longiores quasi coronam formantes. 
A.-W. Bennet, in Journ. of. Bot. 1879, I. c. 
Tab. nostra XXI, fig. 31-32. 
Exse. : Mandon, Pt. And. Boliv. n° 838. 
Radix perpendicularis, simplex vel pauciramosa, brevis, lutea, subtenuis cirea 
3 cm. longa. Caulis unicus, superne fastigiate ramosus, teres, tenuis vel crassior, 
basi durus, levissime puberalus, valde foliosus. Rami numerosi, filiformes, erecti, 
fastigiati valde foliosi. Altitudo plantæ 10-30 cm. Folia inferiora verticillata, supe- 
riora alterna, omnia angustissima linearia, acuto-mucronata, 1-2 cm. longa, 1! mm. 
lata, in ramis numerosiora atque angustiora. Racemi terminales corymbosi, subla- 
xiflori, 1-6 cm. longi. Flores breviter pedicellati. Sepala exteriora longitudine 
æqualia superius ovatum, inferiora elliptico-lanceolata, quam flos multoties bre 
er dire sde Fe 
