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a few longer subspreading hairs intermixed. Leaves elliptic, sub- 
acute to obtuse, barely mucronulate, cuneate at base, sparsely in- 
curved-pubescent beneath, subglabrous above, the ca. 6 pairs of 
lateral nerves fairly prominent, 1.8—-2.7 cm. long, 8-11 mm. wide, 
on petioles 1.5-2 mm. long. Racemes 15-45-flowered, 4—7 cm. 
long. Flowers 4.5-5 mm. long. Sepals lance-oblong, obtuse, 
slightly involute, with 2-3 hairs at apex and 2-3 pairs of pedicellate 
glands on margin, otherwise glabrous, 2-2.4 mm. long. Wings 
broadly inequilaterally wedge-obovate, cuneate at base, slightly 
undulate at the rounded apex, only slightly veiny, 5 mm. long, 3.5 
mm. wide. Keel 4.3 mm. long. Upper petals with orbicular di- 
lated apex, 3.9 mm. long. Capsule oblong, emarginate, cuneate at 
base, 4.5 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide. Seed shortly silky-pilose, 3.2 
mm. long. Aril 0.9 mm. long, pubescent. — Molt. & Gomez in 
Gomez, Anal. Hist. Nat. Madrid xix. 233 (1890). P. peduncularis 
A. Rich. Fl. Cub. ii. 37. t. 12 bis (1853), not Burch. ex DC. Prod. 
i. 323 (1824). — GuapELOouPE: 1892, Pére Duss 2981 (G). — The 
species is apparently the same as that to which the name P. violacea 
Aubl., clearly described and figured as with a cristate keel, is most 
unaccountably referred by Chodat. — T. 2. Fic. 46. 
Subgenus V. CHAMAEBUXUS (DC.), comb. nov. 
Sepals herbaceous, free, the upper usually persistent, all persis- 
tent in one species. Wings petaloid, oblong, deciduous (persistent 
in one species). Keel oblong, gibbous toward apex, with distinct 
cylindric or conic infra-apical rostrum, not otherwise crested. Upper 
petals oblong, united below to the staminal tube. Stamens mona- 
delphous, united for more than half their length, glabrous. Stig- 
matic lobes subapproximate, the upper tufted, the lower obliquely 
elevated, not tufted. Capsule small or medium, scarcely winged, 
membranous-herbaceous. Seeds pubescent. Aril generally 2-lobed 
and appressed, sometimes rostrate. — Polygala L. sect. Chamae- 
buxus DC. Prod. i. 331 (1824); Chod. Arch. Sci. Phys. Nat. Genéve 
xxv. 698 (1891); Monog. ii. 93 (1893). Chamaebuxus Spach, Hist. 
Nat. Veg. vii. 125 (1839). — The species here described, with a 
few others from the southwestern United States, form a most dis- 
tinct section which may be called, in allusion to its beaked keel, 
