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Polygala miamiensis Small, sp. nov
Stems slender, solitary from a slender apparently perennial root, branched below, 3.5 dm. high, finely incurved-puberulous; leaves narrowly lance-elliptic or linear-elliptic, 1-2.5 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, acuminate at each end, mucronulate, membranaceous, very sparsely incurved-puberulous along costa beneath and on margin, light-green, 1-nerved; peduncles 1-3.5 mm. long; racemes loosely 6-9-flowered, 5-22 mm. long; bracts persistent, subulate, 0.6-0.8 mm. long; pedicels 0.8-1.5 mm. long; flowers greenish ; upper sepal oval, obtuse, ciliate with incurved non-glandular hairs, or rarely with one or two of them thickened and glanduliform, 1.6 mm. long; lower sepals united three-quarters their length, 1.3 mm. long; wings obliquely suborbicular-obovate, broadly rounded, cuneate at base, not venose, glabrous, 3.3-4.1 mm. long, 2.5-3.2 mm. wide; keel about 2 mm. long; capsule oval, 3-3.8 mm. long, 1.9-2.3 mm. wide; seed oblong-ellipsoid, silky-pilose, 2.5 mm. long; aril corneous, very sparsely pubescent, 0.9 mm. high.
Type collected in the Everglades west of Miami, Florida, November 1-9, 1901, J. K. Small &• G. V. Nash 289 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.).
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John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Polygala krugii Chod. M£m. Soc. Phys
Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 63. 1893.
Polygala bahamensis Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 64. 1916.
Erect single-stemmed annual, 1.6-3.8 dm. high, simple or branched, glabrous or very sparsely incurved-puberulous; leaves elliptic to linear-elliptic, 1-3.5 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, thickish, obtuse or acutish, 1-nerved, glabrous or in youth very sparsely incurved-puberulous; peduncles 3-12 mm. long; racemes loose, 1.5-7 cm. long; flowers purplish and greenish ; sepals oblong-ovate, obtuse, sparsely ciliolate, and usually bearing several pairs of pedicellate glands, 1.5-1.8 mm. long; wings broadly orbicular, emarginulate, short-clawed, strongly nerved, 4 mm. long and wide; keel 4 mm. long; capsule oval, 3 mm. long, 2.4 mm. wide; seed silky-pilose, 2.5 mm. long; aril sparsely pilose, 0.8 mm. high.
Type locality: New Providence. Bahamas.
Distribution: Islands of Great Bahama, Andros, and New Providence, Bahama Islands.
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John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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