Polygala spathulata Griseb.

Polygala spathulata Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 13. 1866
Stems many from a woody base, slender, spreading, 4-28 cm. long; leaves all in whorls of 4, spatulate-obovate, 3.5-9 mm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, mucronate at the rounded apex, cuneate at base, slightly glandular-denticulate on margin, glabrous; racemes 41 0-flowered, subsessile or very short-peduncled; pedicels 0.2 mm. long; bracts spreading, ovate-attenuate, persistent, 0.5 mm. long; flowers whitish, green-veined; sepals oval to ovate, obtuse, 1-1.2 mm. long, the lower with 2-3 pairs of pedicellate glands on margin; wings obovate-oblong, 2.8 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide, acutish, short-clawed, obscurely ciliate; keel 2.5 mm. long, the crest on each side of 3 simple or 2-3-fid lobes; capsule elliptic, 2.3 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide; seed 2.1 mm. long, appressed-subsericeous-pilose; aril 1.3 mm. high, the umbo very minute, the 2 oblong scarious lobes appressed.
Type locality: Savannas, San Juan de Buenavista, Cuba. Distribution: Eastern Cuba and Isle of Pines; Bahama Islands.