Blake — Revision of Polygala 93 
(G). CHrauanua: Combre, summit above Batopilas, 2590 m., 
Aug.—Nov. 1885, Palmer 323 (corypr coLL.: G). TAMAULIPAS: 
Sacahuales, between Tula and Tampico, Nov. 1830, Berlandier 721 
(coryPE coLL.: G) and 2138 (coryrE cout.: BGK). Jaisco: 
Guadalajara, Sept. 1886, Palmer 470 (BGK); plains of Guadala- 
jara, 27 Nov. 1888, Pringle 1809 (BGK); gravelly plains of 
Guadalajara, 1525 m., 12 Oct. 1903, Pringle 11376 (GK). Vera 
Cruz: Orizaba, Botteri 823 (K) and 1119 (corypE couL.: G). 
Oaxaca: El Marquesado, 1600 m., Sept. 1901, Conzatti & Gon- 
zdlez 1186 (G). GuatTeMaLa: Santa Rosa, 915 m., June 1892, 
Heyde & Lux 3008 (GK); Heyde & Lux 3005b (K).—T. 2. 
Fia. 68. 
115. P. BracHypTERA Griseb. Annual, very slender, simple or 
sparsely branched above, 1.7—2.8 dm. long, the stem angled, gla- 
brous. Leaves (except a single basal whorl) scattered, linear, 
slightly revolute, glabrous, cuspidate, subsessile, 3-6 mm. long, 
0.3-0.5 mm. wide. Racemes 1-3, conic, 3-11 mm. long, 4-6 mm. 
thick, densely flowered, on peduncles 1.3-2.1 cm. long; pedicels 
0.7 mm. long. Flowers white, green-veined, 2.4 mm. long. Upper 
sepal oval, mucronate, acute, bearing two oval glands toward base, 
1.5 mm. long; lower oval-oblong, acute, similarly glanduliferous, 
1mm. long. Wings narrowly elliptic, abruptly pointed, not clawed, 
bearing 2-3 basal glands, 3-nerved, 1.8 mm. long, 1 mm. wide. 
Keel 2.4 mm. long, equalled by the narrowly oblong rounded upper 
petals; crest of 3 pairs of lobes, the posterior cuneate, adnate to 
keel, the 2 anterior linear. Capsule thin-walled, ovate-elliptic, 3.5 
mm. long, 1.7 mm. wide, bearing a series of oblong glands near the 
septum. Seed (including coma) 2.6 mm. long, appressed-silky- 
pilose, conic. Aril infra-apical, minute, 0.4mm. long, its lobes linear. 
— Griseb.! Cat. Pl. Cub. 12 (1866); Chod. Monog. ii. 179. t. 21. 
f. 35-36 (1893). CuBa: savanna, Habo del Medir, 27 Aug., 
Wright 1912 (Typr coty.: BGK).— Flowers yellowish-green 
according to Wright, but appearing whitish. — T. 2. Fic. 69. 
116. P. toneicautis HBK. Slender erect annual, sparsely 
branched (usually above the middle) or subsimple, 6 dm. high or 
less, the stems several-angled, glabrous or sparsely pedicellate- 
glandular below. Leaves all alternate (or a single whorl of 3 re- 
duced narrow-obovate leaves at base), linear or linear-oblong or 
-lancolate, acuminate, cuspidate, l-nerved, glabrous, subsessile, 
