Blake — Revision of Polygala a1 
mm. long, not persistent in fruit, the lower similar, 2.6-3.3 mm. 
long. Wings purplish (fide Davidson), obovate, rounded at apex, 
cuneate at base, finely ciliolate but otherwise glabrous, finely reti- 
culate-veined, 8.5 mm. long, 4.2 mm. wide. Keel yellow (fide 
Davidson), 8 mm. long, its beak short, curved, 0.7 mm. long. Upper 
petals oblong, slightly retuse at apex, porrect, 8 mm. long. Capsule 
suborbicular, obliquely rounded at base, emarginulate at the 
slightly narrowed apex, 7.5 mm. long, 8.5 mm. wide. Seed 5 mm. 
long, pilose. Aril 4mm. long; corneous umbo conic, obtuse, loosely 
pilose, 3 mm. long; scarious border 1 mm. deep, loose, irregularly 
dentate-lobulate. — Parry! Proc. Davenp. Acad. Nat. Sci. iv. 39 
(1884); (P. Fischiae) Chod. Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 898 (1896), where 
referred to P. californica Nutt.— Lower CALIFORNIA: near Sauzal, 
Todos Santos Bay, 1882, Miss Fanny E. Fish (typr couu.: GK); 
near Todos Santos Bay, 30 Sept. 1884, Orcutt 1223 (G). Also 
Cauirornia: Santa Anita Canyon, Los Angeles Co., Sept. 1883, 
Nevin 849 (G); Sierra Madre Range, Los Ataelen Co., July 
1893, Davidson (G). — T. 2. Fie. 52. 
90. P. nrripa Brandegee. Frutescent, branching, decumbent, 
the stem and branches finely incurved-puberulous, 9-20 em. long. 
Lower leaves elliptic, cuspidate at the rounded apex, cuneate- 
rounded at base, reticulate (lateral veins.ca. 4 pairs), shining, gla- 
brous or very sparsely incurved-puberulous on midnerve beneath, 
‘ 1-2 em. long, 7.5-12.5 mm. wide, on petioles 1 mm. long, the lowest 
similar but smaller, the upper gradually more oblong or obovate- 
oblong, 11-15 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide. Racemes extra-axillary, 
3-9-flowered, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, the axis slightly geniculate, the 
bracts and much smaller bractlets persistent, minute, lance-subu- 
late, sparsely ciliolate. Flowers rose-color, 5.5 mm. long. Upper 
sepal ovate, obtusish, sparsely ciliolate, persistent, 3 mm. long; 
the lower sepals oblong, acutish, slightly oblique, rosy-tinged, 
sparsely ciliolate, 2.6 mm.long. Wings rose-color, oblong-obovate, 
acutish at the mucronulate apex, cuneate at base, veiny (the veins 
ending free), glabrous, 5.5 mm. long, 3.3 mm. wide. Keel yellowish, 
saccate near middle, 5.5 mm. long, the blunt slightly descending 
beak 1.5 mm. long. Upper petals oblong, rounded at apex, 4.5 mm. 
long. Capsule oval, emarginate, slightly stipitate, obliquely sub- 
reticulate-striate, sparsely incurved ially along sep- 
tum, 4 mm. long, 2.7 mm. wide. Seed pilosulous, 3mm. Along. Aril 
