Blake — Revision of Polygala 81 
4mm. wide. Racemes terminal, short. Flowers rosy, 3 mm. long. 
Sepals unequal, the upper elliptic, acute, the lower shorter, lanceo- 
late, acute, green on back, membranaceous on margin, 1/3 as long 
as wings. Wings elliptic, subobtuse, slightly inequilateral, very 
shortly unguiculate. Upper petals rhomboidal, subemarginate, 
strongly inequilateral, equalling or surpassing the keel. Crest 
multifid, the segments linear, simple or bifid. Fruit unknown. — 
DC. Prod. i. 329 (1824), fide Chod. Monog. ii. 134. t. 20. f. 11-12 
(1893). — Not seen; description condensed from Chodat, 1. c. 
Based by De Candolle on specimens collected in Santo Domingo by 
Nectoux; redescribed by Chodat from specimens collected at the 
same place by the same collector. 
100. P. conrerta A. W. Bennett. Slender annual, the stems 
solitary or rarely few, erect, glabrous, strongly angled, 7-14 em. 
high, bearing 2-6 capitate racemes. Lower leaves (1—2 whorls) 
in 5’s, spatulate-obovate, mucronate, 3.5-7.5 mm. long, 1.7-3.7 
mm. wide; middle leaves (1-2 whorls) linear, acuminate, mucro- 
nate, subsessile, 7-13 mm. long, 0.6-1.2 mm. wide; branch leaves 
linear, scattered or sometimes whorled. Racemes capitate, densely — 
flowered, 4-9 mm. long, 5.5-6 mm. thick, on mostly naked pe- 
duncles 24.5 em. long; the bracts minute, quickly deciduous; 
pedicels 1.2-1.5 mm. long. Flowers roseate or greenish-white, 1.8 
mm. long. Upper sepal orbicular-ovate, blunt, slightly denticu- 
late toward apex, 1 mm. long; lower ovate, subacute, 0.8 mm. long. 
Wings oval, short-clawed, 1.8 mm. long, 1.1 mm. wide. Keel 1.5 
mm. long; crest of about 2 pairs of papillate-margined lobes, the 
anterior oblong, simple or bifid, the posterior cuneate, 3-fid at apex. 
Capsule orbicular-oval, slightly oblique at each end, 1.3 mm. long, 
1 mm. wide. Seed shortly pubescent, 1 mm. long. Aril 0.7 mm. 
deep, its lobes oblong, appressed. — A. W. Bennett in Hemsl. Diag. 
Pl. Nov. i. 2 (1878); Journ. Bot. xvii. 172 (1879); Wats. Proc. Am. 
Acad. xxii. 398 (1887); Chod. Monog. ii. 141. t. 20. f. 22 (1893). 
—Jaisco: plains near Guadalajara, 5 Oct. 1889, Pringle 2941 
(G); Rio Blanco, Sept. 1886, Palmer 571 (BGK); gravelly plains 
of Guadalajara, 1525 m., 8 Oct. 1903, Pringle 11377 (GK); _hill- 
sides near Guadalajara, 1525 m., 15 Oct. 1903, Pringle 8759 (G). 
Vera Cruz: near Orizaba, Aug. 1866, Bourgeau 3249 (GK); st 
zaba, Botteri 822 (K); Schmitz (B). Micnoacan: dry 
slopes, hills of Patzcuaro, 12 Oct. 1892, Pringle 4267 (BGK). 
