12 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
3. P. Penaga L. Stem and branches densely hispidulous- 
pilosulous with stiff ascending hairs. Leaves narrowly obovate, 
broadly rounded or rarely obtuse at apex, apiculate, acutely cune- 
ate at base, revolute, rough especially above with short persistent 
tuberculate-based incurved hairs, 1.8-3.2 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide. 
Raceme-axis 2.8 mm. long or less, the pedicels 1.5-2 mm. long in 
fruit. Flowers 2.8 mm. long, greenish-yellow. Sepals deltoid- 
ovate, obtuse, ciliolate, sparsely puberulous on back, 0.8-1 mm. 
long and wide. Wings similar, 1.4 mm. long, 1.1 mm. wide. Keel 
ciliate more than one-half its length, 2.8 mm. long. Upper petals 
somewhat arched, 2.7 mm. long. Filaments united nearly to apex, 
the tube ciliate on margin. Fruit 4 mm. long, 9 mm. wide, trans- 
versely oblong, shortly hispidulous-pilosulous. — L. Sp. ii. 703 
(1753). P. domingensis Jacq. Stirp. Am. ed. min. 252 (1788); 
Chod. |. ¢. ii. 9. t. 13. f. 9-11 (1893). Badiera Penaea (L.) DC. 
Prod. i. 335 (1824); Britton, Bull. Torr. Club xxxvii. 361 (1910); 
l. c. xlii. 494 (1915). Badiera domingensis (Jacq.) DC. 1. ¢. (1824) ; 
Deless. Ic. Select. iii. 13. t. 21 (1837). —Sanro Dominao: Poiteau 
(B); Schomburgk 11 (K); mountain woods, 1827, Jacquemont (K); 
woods, Sierra del Palo Quemado, 500 m., 10 May 1887, Eggers 
1897 (BK); near Constanza, 1190 m., June 1910, Twerckheim 3209 
(BG). Also recorded by Britton from Haiti. — T. 1. Fia. 2 
4. P. guantanamana, nom. nov. Frutex vel arbusculus usque 
ad 4 m. altus, ramis foliosissimis, ramulis puberulis. Folia obovata 
vel obovato-oblanceolata puberula vel minute papilloso-puberula 
vel glabrata apice rotundata vel emarginulata basi angustata 15 
mm. longa 4-8 mm. lata vel minora, in petiolis 1-1.5 mm. longis. 
Flores 2 mm. longi luteo-virescentes. Pedicelli frugiferi 1.5 mm. 
longi. Fructus 5 mm. longus, lobis anguste marginatis (fructu per- 
fecto haud viso).— Badiera virgata Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 
xxxvil. 361 (1910), not Polygala virgata Thunb. — “ Oriente, Cama- 
guey, and Santa Clara, Cuba. (Type Britton 2086, from United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, March 17-30, 1909).” 
Description condensed from Britton, |. c. To this species I refer 
with little doubt Wright 3497 from Cuba (hb. Gray), which well 
agrees with the description except for its slightly larger leaves (19 
by 11 mm.). This collection, which is in flower and young fruit, 
has merely ciliate sepals, slabeous pedicels 1.3-1.5 mm. long, and 
young fruit transversely oblong in outline, ciliate and sparsely 
