Asemeia violacea (Aubl.) J. F. B. Pastore & J. R. Abbott

Polygala planellasi Molinet & Maza; Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp Hist. Nat. 19: 233. 1890.
Polygala peduncularis A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 10: 37. 1845. Not P. peduncularis Burch. 1824.
Herbaceous perennial, erect, branched, 3.5 dm. high, rather densely pubescent with incurved or incurved-spreading hairs, a few longer spreading hairs intermixed; leaves elliptic, 1.8-2.7 cm. long, 8-1 1 mm. wide, subacute to obtuse, cuneate at base, sparsely incurved-pubescent beneath, subglabrous above; racemes 4-7 cm. long; sepals lance-oblong, obtuse, with 2 or 3 hairs at apex and 2-3 pairs of pedicellate glands on margin, 2-2.4 mm. long; wings broadly wedge-obovate, slightly undulate at the rounded apex, cuneate at base, inequilateral, only slightly veiny, 5 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide; keel 4.3 mm. long; capsule oblong, 4.5 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide; seed short-silky-pilose, 3.2 mm. long; aril 0.9 mm. high, pubescent.
Type locality: "Cuba."
Distribution: "Cuba" and Guadeloupe.

Polygala ambigens Blake; Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 50: 40. 1923.
Stems usually solitary from a slender but evidently perennial root, simple or sparsely branched, 3.5-6 dm. high, very slender, glabrous throughout or sparsely incurved-puberulous on the younger parts; leaves alternate, linear or linear-filiform, 9-25 mm. long, 0.5-1.5 mm. wide, cuspidulate, short-petioled, 1-nerved; peduncles 5 to 10 mm. long; racemes loosely many-flowered, the axis sometimes becoming 25 cm. long; bracts subulate, 1.5 mm. long, caducous; pedicels glabrous, 1.5-2 mm. long; sepals bearing 3-6 pairs of stipitate glands, sometimes also ciliolate with eglandular hairs toward apex, the upper sepal 2 mm. long, the lower sepals( connate nearly to apex) 1.5 mm. long; wings magenta-purple, broadly and obliquely cuneate-obovate, 3.8-4.5 mm. long, 2.8-3.2 mm. wide, subsessile or short-clawed, etnarginate at apex, glabrous, about 5-veined, the veins loosely anastomosing, not at all prominulous; upper petals magenta-purple; keel yellow-tipped, becoming 4 mm. long; capsule 3.8 mm. long, 2.4 mm. wide, slightly shorter than the mature wings; seed densely pilose, 2.8 mm. long; aril sparsely pubescent on the sides, 0.8 mm. high.
Type locality: Sabana del Cerro, near Cerro Pelade between Zarzal and Nagua, Oriente, Cuba.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Polygala cubensis Chod. M£m. Soc. Phys Geneve 31(2) 2 : 62. 1893.
Very slender annual, slightly branched above, 4.5 dm. high, glabrous or when young very sparsely incurved-pubescent; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 1.4—2.5 cm. long, 1-3.5 mm. wide, obtuse, mucronate, at base acuminate, slightly revolute, glabrous or essentially so; racemes loose, 6-12 cm. long; sepals 1.1-1.3 mm. long, usually pedicellate-glandular; wings obovate-oval, truntate-rounded, short-clawed, purplish-tinged, not venose, 3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; keel 4 mm. long; capsule oval-oblong, 4.4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; seed silky-pilose, 2.6 mm. long; aril 0.8 mm. high.
Type locality: Cuba.
Distribution: Cuba.