Blake — Revision of Polygala 89 
36-37 (1893). — CuBa: 1860-64, Wright 1909 (rypE cout.: BGK); 
dry sandy places, near Laguna Jovero, Pinar del Rio, 5-7 Dee. 
1911, Shafer 10714 (G).—T. 2. Fig. 57. — Approaching in ra- 
ceme characters the next section but with wings not very much 
larger than keel. 
Ser. 8. TrmourorpEar Chod. Leaves alternate or verticillate; 
racemes very dense; wings much larger than keel; seed short- 
pubescent. — Polygala sect. Orthopolygala subsect. I. B. Timoutoi- 
deae Chod. Monog. ii. 153 (1893). 
a. seit namic from an ovate base, longer than the 
eke Cel Gens a ee Cree Fae Le 110. P. crinita. 
a. Beisele owed to lanceolate, much shorter than wings, b. 
b. inear-lanceolate, mostly alternate......... 111. P. hygrophila. 
b. Leaves oval or obovate, mostly whorled in threes ....112. P. timoutou. 
110. P. crrnira Chod. Erect freely but ene es branched annual, 
single-stemmed, glabrous, 1.8 dm. high, the stem narrowly wing- 
angled. Leaves verticillate in 3’s to middle of stem, alternate 
above, cuneate-obovate, cuspidate at the rounded apex (or the 
upper subacute), glabrous, scarcely petioled, 1.4—1.8 em. long, 3-6 
wide. Racemes terminating stem and branches, cylindric, 
very dense, acutish, very comose at apex, 0.8-(at length)2.4 cm. 
long, 4.5-5 mm. thick; bracts filiform, 3 mm. long, loose, persis- 
tent. Flowers whitish, 2-2.3 mm. long, on pedicels 0.6 mm. long. 
Sepals with short ovate base and long filiform-subulate tip, 2.5 mm. 
long. Wings broadly elliptic, mucronulate at the rounded or retuse 
apex, scarcely narrowed at base, glabrous, 5-nerved, 2-2.3 mm. 
long, 1.8-1.9 mm. wide. Keel 1.7—1.8 mm. long; crest of two pairs 
of lobes, the posterior cuneate, adnate to keel, the anterior linear, 
entire, free. Upper petals oblong-ovate, oblique, rounded at apex, 
ca. 2mm. long. Capsule suborbicular, 1.6 mm. long, 1.4 mm. wide. 
Seed 1.1 mm. long, sparsely pubescent. Aril 0.5 mm. deep. — 
Chod. Monog. ii. 156. t. 21. f. 7-8 (1893). P. setifera Brandeg.! 
Zoe v. 205 (1905). — Srvatoa: grassy slopes, Cerro Colorado, near 
Culiacan, 1 Nov. 1904, Brandegee (TYPE COLL. of P. setifera: G). — 
T. 2. Fiag..65. — From Chodat’s full description and figures there 
can be no doubt of the identity of his P. crinita (types Karwinski 
303, 304 (hb. Monac.)) with Brandegee’s P. setifera. 
111. P. nyGropoita HBK. Slender erect annual, simple or 
slightly branched, glabrous throughout, about 3 dm. high, the 
stem narrowly wing-angled. Lowest leaves subverticillate, linear- 
