Huachuca Mountain Milkwort

Polygala piliophora Blake, sp. nov
Stems several, suffrutescent below, about 1 dm. high, densely and subcanescently incurvedpuberulous; lower leaves oblanceolate, the middle and upper linear-lanceolate or linear-elliptic, 9-17 mm. long, 1.8-2.8 mm. wide, acute to acuminate at each end, densely incurved-puberulous, thickish, 1-nerved, involute; peduncles very short; racemes loose below, dense above, the axis 3.2-5 cm. long; pedicels 1.5-2 mm. long; flowers apparently ochroleucous; sepals ovate, obtuse or acute, 2.2-2.5 mm. long; wings oval or obovate, 4-4.2 mm. long, 2-2.8 mm. wide, obtuse to rounded, cuneate at base, somewhat vescicle-bearing, incurved-puberulous chiefly along costa and toward apex, incurved-ciliolate; keel glabrous, 3-5 mm. long; capsule ovateoval, somewhat narrowed above, emarginate, rounded at base, incurved-puberulous and -ciliolate, 5.S-S.5 mm. long; seed short-pointed at base, pilose, 4.3 mm. long; aril pedicellate by the pointed base of seed, 0.4-0.5 mm. high, 1.3 mm. long dorsally, obcuneate-lanceolate as seen from above, nearly horizontal, subcntire, the densely pilose umbo about 0.3 mm. high, the anterior portion of the scarious margin subtruneate, vizor-like, the posterior portion shorter, narrower, acutish.
Tvpe collected near Fort Huachuca, Arizona, August, 1894, T. E. Wilcox (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 213259).