Polygala adenophora DC.

Polygala adenophora DC. Prodr. 1: 327. 1824
Polygala incarnata Aubl. PI. Guian. 739. 1775. Not P. incarnata L. 1753.
Erect annual, 1.5-4.5 dm. high, simple or branched above, glabrous, sometimes papillose below; leaves alternate, linear, 4-16 mm. long, 0.2-1 mm. wide, acuminate, revolute, erect or ascending; peduncles 4 cm. long or less; racemes obtuse, dense, 7-12 mm. thick, the axis 1-4.8 cm. long; bracts ovate, deciduous, 1.2 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; flowers rosy; sepals oval to ovate, apiculate to obtuse, 1.3-2 mm. long; wings narrowly elliptic, 4.7-5.3 mm. long, 1.4-1.7 mm. wide, obscurely apiculate or obtuse, 3-nerved; keel slender, 6.2-7.5 mm. long, the crest on each side of a double row of 3-4 lobes, the inner series linear, the outer longer, spatulate, entire or bifid; capsule narrowly elliptic, erose-margined toward apex on lower side, 3.5-3.7 mm. long, 1-1.3 mm. wide; seed obconic, pilose, comose at apex, 1.8-2 mm. long; aril minute, the lobes united into one.
Type locality: French Guiana.
Distribution: British Honduras; also from Trinidad and Venezuela to French Guiana.