Blake — Revision of Polygala 9 
liquely oblong, slightly shorter than the wings, united at base to the 
keel. Lateral petals present, small, united to staminal tube. Sta- 
mens 8 (7-9 fide Chodat), monadelphous, the tube united toward 
base to the keel; anthers much shorter than the free (glabrous) 
. portion of the filaments. Stigmatic lobes remote, not tufted. Cap- 
sule large, glabrous, with a very broad membranous wing on one 
side, narrowly winged on the other; one or two seeds maturing. 
Seeds obovoid, densely pilosulous-velutinous. Aril rather large, 
coriaceous-fleshy, glabrous. Shrubs or trees, glabrous or nearly so 
except on petioles and raceme-axes, with alternate very coriaceous 
closely dichotomously reticulate-veined cuneate to elliptic leaves, 
and large flowers in 3-13-flowered axillary racemes. Phlebotaenia 
Griseb. Pl. Wright. Cub. i. 156 (1860); Britton, Torreya vii. 38 
(1907); Urb. Sym. Antill. v. 382 (1908). Polygala L. sect. Phle- 
botaenia Chod. Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. Genéve xxv. 698 (1891); sect. 
Phlaebotaenia (Griseb.) Chod. Monog. ii. 4 (1893). 
Leaves 2.4-5.5 em. long, 10-18 mm. wide.................. 1. P. cuneata. 
Leaves 8-12.5 cm. long, 3.2-6.9 em. wide................++5 2. P. Cowellit. 
1. P. cuneata (Griseb.), comb. nov. Tree 15 m. high, 0.3-0.6m. 
thick (fide Wright), glabrous except the densely puberulous raceme- 
axes, more or less glutinous. Leaves cuneate to cuneate-oblong or 
-obovate, narrowed to the base, rounded, truncate, or retuse at 
apex, glabrous; petioles puberulous above, 3-6 mm. long. Racemes 
mostly shorter than the leaves, 3-10-flowered; pedicels glabrous, 
shorter than the flowers. Flowers 1—1.4 cm. long, purplish. Sepals 
and wings ciliolate. Upper petals and wings puberulous toward 
base. Capsule 1.3-2.8 em. long, 1.1-1.6 em. wide. Seed about 7 
mm. long. — Phlebotaenia cuneata Griseb.! l.c. 157 (1860). Poly- 
gala Phlebotaenia Chod.! L.c. ii. 4. t. 13. f..1-4 (1893). 
Forma typica. Folia cuneata vel cuneato-oblonga apice rotun- 
data vel retusa 2.8-5.5 cm. longa 1-1.8 cm. lata. —Cusa: Mount 
Friendship, near Santa Catalina de Guantanamo, 25 July 1856, 
Wright 113 (rypr cott: BGK); dry rocky ground near Havana, 
13 April 1905, Curtiss 717 (BGK); woodlands, Ensenada de Mora, 
Oriente, March 1912, Britton, Cowell, & Shafer 12981 (K); coastal 
woods, Ensenada de Mora, March 1912, Britton, Cowell, & Shafer 
13063 (K) 
Forma obovata (Griseb.), comb. nov. Folia cuneato-obovata 
apice rotundata vel retusa 2.4-2.7 cm. longa 1.2-1.8 em. lata. — 
