8 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
absent), scarious, corneous, cellular, or coriaceous-fleshy, entire or 
variously lobed, often pubescent.— Polygala L. Sp. ii. 701 (1753); 
Gen. V. ed. 315. no. 761 (1754); Willd. Sp. iii. pt. 2. 871 (1803); 
HBK. Nov. Gen. v. 392-409. t. 506-512 (1821); DC. Prod. i. 321- 
334 (1824), incl. Badiera; Presl, Rel. Haenk. ii. 100 (1835-36) ; 
Schlecht. & Cham. Linn. v. 230 (1830); Schlecht. Linn. xiv. 159- 
160 (1840); Benth. Pl. Hartw. 58 (1840); Gray, Pl. Lindh. ii. 150 
(1850); Pl. Wright. i. 38 (1852), ii. 30 (1853); Turez. Bull. Soe. 
Nat. Mosc. xxvii. no. 2. 349-351 (1854); Seemann, Bot. Herald 
269-270 (1857); Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 27-29 (1859); Cat. Pl. Cub. 
12-14 (1866); A. W. Benn. Journ. Bot. xvii. 137-143, 168-173, 
201-207 (1879); Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. i. 58-62 (1879); 
Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 324-326 (1882), xxi. 416-417 (1886), 
xxii. 398 (1887); Wheelock, Mem. Torr. Club ii. 109-152 (1890); 
Chod. Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. Genéve xxv. 695-714 (1891); Monog. 
Polygalacearum i. (Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Genéve vol. suppl. 
1890. no. 7) 1-143. t.1-12 (1891), ii. (lc. xxxi. pt. 2. no. 2) i-xil, 
1-500. t. 13-35 (1893); Bull. Herb. Boiss. i. 354 (1893), iti. 121 
(1895), iv. 898 (1896); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. iii. pt. 4. 330- 
337. f. 176-181 (1896); Rob. in Gray, Syn. FI. i. pt. 1. 449-460 
(1896); Rose, Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. x. 122-123. t. 37-39 (1906); 
Britton, Bull. Torr. Club xxxvii. 360-363 (1910), xlii. 494-496 
(1915) (Badiera); Chod. Bot. Jahrb. lii. Beibl. 115. 70-85 (1914). 
Kery To THE SUBGENERA OF POLYGALA 
a. Keel without crest or beak, b. 
b. ves very densely and dichotomously reticulate-veined ; 
capsule broadly winged on one side ........... I. PHLEBOTAENIA. 
ree, d. 
d. Wings gt a about 4 longer than sepals; cap- 
ceous, tardily dehiscent .. . . . Il. Baprera, p. 10. 
d. Mibecs at much lage than sepals; capsule not subcoria- 
Ill. —- p. 17. 
Ce ee ee ae ee ae ee er yea ae ee a 
c. Two Sonar et connate; wings and se 
Ut... pin bee ele Vv. He Hesecwapa, p. 59. 
a. Keel with a cylindric or conic entire beak. ..... V. CHAMAEBUXUS, Pp. 69. 
a. Keel with a 2-many-lobed crest............ VI. OrTHoPoLyGALa, p. 78. 
Subgenus I. PHLEBOTAENIA (Griseb.), comb, nov. 
Sepals free, caducous, herbaceous, oval-oblong, obtuse, the upper 
longer. Wings oval, obtuse, caducous, petaloid, nearly equalling 
the keel. Keel blunt, without crest or beak. Upper petals ob- 
