90 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
lanceolate, 6-9 mm. long, 0.8—-1.2 mm. wide, the others alternate, 
sessile, mucronate, 1-nerved, slightly revolute, 13-18 mm. long, 
1.5-2 mm. wide. Raceme cylindric-ovoid, thick, slightly comose at 
apex, 1.7-2 em. long, 8-8.5 mm. thick; peduncle 1.8-2 cm. long; 
bracts deciduous in fruit. Sepals oval, bluntly pointed, with strong 
midnerve, 1.8mm. long. Wings elliptic, rounded, about 7-nerved, 
brownish-white when dried, 4.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide. Upper 
petals oval, rounded, equalling the keel. Keel 2.5 mm. long; crest 
of about 3 pairs of lobes. Capsule subglobose, turgid. Seed-ellip- 
soid, blackish, short-pubescent, 1.7 mm. long. Aril 1 mm. long, 
the 2 lobes narrowly and obliquely oblong, corneous above. — 
HBK. Nov. Gen. v. 395. t. 508 (1821); Seemann! Bot. Herald 80 
(1852-53) (as P. hygrophylla); Chod. Monog. ii. 161. t. 21. f. 11-12 
(1893). — Panama: near the city of Panama, in savannas, Seemann 
284 (B). 
112. P. trmovrov Aubl. Slender erect annual, simple or 
branched, 8-18 em. high, very glabrous. Stem strongly about 3- 
angulate-winged. Leaves nearly all in whorls of 3 (the upper oppo- 
site or alternate), oval or obovate, mucronate at the acutish apex, 
cuneate to the sessile base, 1-nerved, 4.5-9 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide. 
Racemes very dense, greenish in dried specimens, very slightly 
comose at apex, 1-3.8 cm. long, 5—6.5 mm. thick, short-peduncled. 
Flowers ca. 3mm. long. Sepals greenish, lanceolate, subacuminate, 
about one-half as long as wings. Wings greenish in dried specimens, 
purplish ” when fresh, broadly oval, rounded at apex, about 4- 
nerved, 2.8 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide. Keel 2 mm. long; crest of 
2 pairs of lobes. Upper petals about equalling keel, obovate-ob- 
long, strongly retuse. Capsule orbicular-ovate, emarginulate, 1.2 
mm. long, 1 mm. wide. Seed sparsely pubescent, black, oval, 
plump, 1.2 mm. long. Aril with oblong lobes about 0.8 mm. long. 
— Aubl. Pl. Guian. ii. 737. t. 295 (1775); Griseb.! Fl. Br. W. Ind. 
27 (1859); Chod. Monog. ii. 154. t. 21. f. 1-3 (1893). — TRINIDAD: 
savanna de O’Mara, July 1848, Purdie 122 (K); savanna d’Aripo, 
Feb. 1851, Crueger (G); without locality, Fendler 269 (K, fragm. 
G).—T.2. Fie. 66 
Ser. y. GuocumraTan Chod. Plant very slender; stem leaves 
verticillate; racemes loose, the flowers very small; seed densely 
pubescent with glochidiate hairs. — Polygala sect. Orthopolygala 
subsect. I. C. Glochidiatae Chod. Monog. ii. 164 (1893). 
