Blake — Revision of Polygala 67 
Tuerckheim 3247 (BG); Arroyo Seco, 300 m., Prov. Barahona, Apr. 
1912, Fuertes 1557 (BG); Cuesta de Piedro, 250 m., 6 June 1887, 
Eggers 2364 (K). — Linden 1704 (BK), placed here by Chodat, has 
wings 3 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, and is very doubtfully referable to 
this species. — Close to P. grandiflora var. angustifolia T. & G., FI. 
N. Am. i. 671 (1840), which has even narrower nearly glabrous 
leaves and perhaps larger flowers. 
Var. ORBICULARIS Chod. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate or linear, glabrescent or slightly puberulent, 3-4 cm. 
long, 3-5 mm. wide. Flowers 5 mm. long. Lower sepals (united) 
eglandular or with 2 pedicellate glands on each margin; the upper 
glandular-ciliate. Wings with limb often broader than long, sub- 
flabellate, subretuse. — Chod. Monog. ii. 57 (1893). — Not seen; 
based on specimens from savannas near San Carlon Generale 
(Preneloup 1004), and grassy places in calcareous soil near Cuesta 
de Piedro, Santiago, San Domingo. 
85. P. aneustironia HBK. Annual, subsimple or rather 
strongly branched, 9-33 cm. high, more or less densely ineurved- or 
loosely spreading-incurved-pubescent or even substrigose. Leaves 
linear to lanceolate, acuminate to the sometimes bluntish apex, 
mucronulate, acute to acuminate at base, subglabrous or sparsely 
incurved-pubescent, 1-nerved, the lateral nerves 3-6 pairs or 
obsolete, 1.3-4.5 em. long, 2-9 mm. wide, on petioles 1-1.5 mm. 
long; lower leaves smaller. Racemes 6-33-flowered, 1.5-7 ecm. 
long. Flowers 3-4 mm. long. Sepals oblong-ovate, obtuse, sparsely 
ciliate at tip, with 2-3 pairs of pedicellate glands, 1.5-1.8 mm. long. 
Wings strongly inequilateral, broadly wedge-obovate, cuneate at 
base, retuse at apex, veiny but not strongly reticulate-veined even 
in fruit, 3-4 mm. long, 2.7-3 mm. wide, pinkish-purple. Keel 3.8 
mm. beiigr Upper petals mauve-purplish, suborbicular-obovate, 
rather strongly veined, retuse at apex, 3 mm. long. Capsule ob- 
long-oval, emarginate, plumpish, 2.8-3 mm. long, 1.7 mm. wide. 
Seeds as in P. grandiflora var. leptophylla but smaller (seed 2.5 mm. 
long, aril 0.7 mm. long). — HBK. Nov. Gen. v. 405. t. 511 (1821); 
Chod. Monog. ii. 52. t. 15. f. 22-24 (1893). P. bryzoides St. Hil. Fl. 
Bras. Merid. ii. 44. t. 88 (1829). P. mucronata MacFad. FI. Jam. 
i. 47 (1837), not Willd. (err. iden.). P. americana Mill. 6. angustifolia 
(HBK.) Ktze. Rev. i. 48 (1891). — Vera Cruz: Mirador, Nov. 
1838, Linden 175 (K). Micnoacan: La Baranca, 500 m., 3 Sept. 
