Blake — Revision of Polygala 83 
pilose, 1.3 mm. long. Aril 1.2 mm. deep, its lobes linear-oblong- 
obovate, appressed. — Rose! Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. x. 123. t. 
39 (1906). P. alba Nutt. var. alcalina Chod.! Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
ill. 122 (1895). —San Luts Porost: alkaline meadows, Hacienda 
de Angostura, 14 July 1891, Pringle 3792 (rypPE coxu. of both 
names: BG); Media Luna, near Rio Verde, 2-8 June 1904, Palmer 
84 (G); 1830-2440 m., 1878, Parry & Palmer 39} p.p. (K); 
Purpus 5173 (B). —T. 2. Fie. 54. 
103. P. apartnompes Hook & Arn. Stems solitary or several 
from a slender perennial base, erect or laxly spreading, narrowly 
5-angulate-winged, and minutely sparsely appressed-puberulent, 
23 cm. long or more. Leaves verticillate in 5’s throughout, or the 
uppemost rameal scattered, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, or the 
lowest orbicular or elliptic-obovate, acute or subacute at each end, 
cuspidate, glandular-punctate, glabrous, 1-nerved, with narrow 
denticulate margin, 10-21 mm. long, 4.5-8 (10) mm. wide, on 
petioles 1 mm. long. Racemes rather densely many-flowered, be- 
coming 16.5 cm. long or less, 5-6 mm. thick, on peduncles 8.5 em. 
long or less; pedicels 0.5-0.7 mm. long. Flowers rosy, 3 mm. long. 
Upper sepal broadly oval, gland-dotted, sparsely glandular-ciliate, 
1.8 mm. long; lower ovate, acutish, gland-dotted, sparsely glandu- 
lar-ciliate, 1.5 mm. long. Wings spreading, elliptic-obovate, some- 
what plicate, short-clawed, rounded at apex, with 5 pink nerves, 
gland-dotted, glabrous, 3 mm. long, 2mm. wide. Keel 2.6 mm. long; 
crest of about 4 pairs of lobes, the posterior cuneate, scarcely lobed, 
the 3 anterior narrow, entire, oblong. Upper petals obliquely 
rhombic-ovate, 3.5 mm. long. Capsule broadly elliptic, 2-2.5 mm. 
long, 1.6—2.1 mm. wide. Seed shortly appressed-pilose, 2-2.1 mm. 
long, equalled by the narrowly oblong appressed lobes of the aril. — 
Hook. & Arn.! Bot. Beech. Voy. 277 (1836-40). P. leptandroides 
Turez.! Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. xxvii. no. 2. 349 (1854). P. nemoralis 
A. W. Bennett! Journ. Bot. xvii. 172 (1879), in part. P. Vogtii 
Chod.! Monog. ii. 144. t. 20. f. 25-26 (1893). P. verticillata L. 
var. aparinoides (Hook. & Arn.) Chod. 1. ¢. 140, as to syn. only. — 
Jauisco: Beechey (rypE: K). Cutapas: Feb., Linden 173 (K: 
TYPE coLL. of P. leptandroides, cotypr coLu. of P. nemoralis, 
COTYPE coLL. of P. Vogtii). GuaTemMaLa: Chilasco, 1861, Salvin 
& Godman (cotTyPE couu. of P. nemoralis: K); Laguna de Ayarces, 
July 1870, Bernoulli 662 (IKK); between Santa Rosa and El Patal, 
