Polygala salviniana A. W. Benn.

Polygala salviniana A. W. Benn. Jour Bot. 17: 203. 1879.
Polygala oxysepala Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 109. 1916.
Stems several from a fruticulose base, erect or ascending, slender, 5-35 dm. long, strigillose or incurved-puberulous; leaves linear-acicular,"4.5-13 mm. long, 0.5-1 mm. wide, cuspidate, 1 -nerved but scarcely sulcate beneath, sparsely incurved-puberulous or subglabrous; peduncles short; racemes loose or rather dense, 7-8 mm. thick, the axis 1.5-6 cm. long; bracts subulate, deciduous, 1.3 mm. long; pedicels 0.5-0.8 mm. long; flowers white, green-veined; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse to acute or acuminate, 0.9-l.S mm. long; wings obovate or spatulateobovate, 3-3.5 mm. long, 0.8-1.3 mm. wide, obtuse (apparently acute by inflexion); keel 1.5 mm. long; capsule elliptic, with the upper cell very narrowly winged, 2.3-2.6 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; seed oblong, pubescent, 2 mm. long; aril 1.2-1.5 mm. long, the 2 lobes oblong.
Type locality: Ridge above Calderas, Guatemala.
Distribution: Guatemala.

Polygala macroloncha Chod. Bot. Jahrb. 52: Beibl 115: 84. 1914.
Stems slender, green, glabrous, denudate below, leafy above, from a suffruticulose base; leaves linear-acicular, 9-10 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide, or smaller, erect, acute at each end, glabrous; racemes 7 mm. thick, 1.5-2 cm. long; pedicels 0.5 mm. long; bracts acicular, caducous, 1.3 mm. long; flowers white, 4.5 mm. long; upper sepal ovate, short-acute, the lower much narrower; wings spatulate, subobtuse or short-acute, gradually clawed at base, 3-nerved, exceeding corolla ; limb of keel shorter than claw, the crest of 2 lamellae and 4-5 narrower lobes, entire or incised; capsule rather shorter than wings, elliptic,, narrowly subserrulate-winged on one side; seed oblong, appressed-pilose, subcoraute at base, curved; arillobes linear, membranaceous, descending, two-thirds as long as seed.
Type locality: Grassy places, Zaragosa, Chimaltenango, Guatemala. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Polygala microloncha Chod. Bot. Jahrb. 52: Beibl 115: 84. 1914.
Stems virgate, striate, glabrous, 3 dm. long, denudate below, leafy and corymbosely branched above, from a perennial root; leaves acicular, 7-10 mm. long, 1 mm. wide or less, acute, glabrous; racemes loose, very slender toward apex, 5-9 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; flowers (rosy) violaceous, 3-3.5 mm. long; sepals ovate, acute, narrow, glabrous; wings ellipticspatulate, clawed, the limb oblong, 3-nerved; crest of keel of a lamella and about 3 lobes on each side; capsule longer than wings, oblong-elliptic, inequilateral, very narrowly winged on one side, conspicuously nerved, 3.5 mm. long; seed cylindric, barely curved; aril-lobes linear, membranaceous, sinuate, one third as long as seed.
Type locality: Limestone hills, Chacula-Uaxac Canal, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.