Rhinotropis lindheimeri var. parvifolia (Wheelock) J. R. Abbott

Polygala tweedyi Britton; Wheelock, Mem. Torrey Club 2: 143. 1891.
Polygala Lindheimeri parvifolia Wheelock, Mem. Torrey Club 2: 143. 1891.
Polygala Arizonae Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31(2) 2 : 108. 1893.
Polygala Arizonae tenuifolia Chod. M£m. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : 109. 1893.
Polygala texensis B. L. Robinson; A. Gray. Syn. Fl. N. Am. I 1 : 451. 1897.
Polygala parvifolia Wooton & Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 19: 392, as to synonym. 1915.
Polygala blepharotropis Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 73. 1916.
Polygala lithophila Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 74. 1916.
Polygala pycnophylla Brand. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 366. 1917.
Suffruticulose, severalto many-stemmed, spreading to erect, incurved-puberulous, usually densely leafy, 7-28 cm. long; leaves more or less distinctly dimorphous or sometimes uniform, linear to lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate-lanceolate, 4-26 mm. long, 1-6 mm. wide, the lowest broader than the others, sometimes orbicular, acute to acuminate or rarely obtusish, coriaceous, more or less reticulate, incurved-puberulous; peduncles 1 cm. long or less, terminal and pseudooppositifol; racemes 3-22-flowered, geniculate, 0.4-4.6 cm. long; bracts elliptic, coriaceous, persistent, 1.2 mm. long; pedicels incurved-puberulous, 1-1.5 mm. long; flowers rosy(?) or whitish, the keel partly yellow; upper sepal persistent, elliptic to ovate, ciliolate and puberulous, 2-2.8 mm. long; lower sepals 1.8-2.4 mm. long; wings obovate or oblong-obovate, 4-5.3 mm. long, 1.8-2.3 mm. wide, obtuse to rounded, cuneate at base, glabrous or sparsely incurvedpuberulous along midline; keel 3.5-5.3 mm. long, sometimes puberulous, the beak 0.5-1.4 mm. long; capsule oval to oblong, striate, puberulous or subglabrous, 4-4.5 mm. long, 2-2.8 mm. wide; seed silky, 2.8-3.5 mm. long; aril corneous, 1.2-2.2 mm. high, with 2 linear or linearoblong appressed lateral lobes.
Type locality: Tom Greene County, Texas.
Distribution: Harmon County, Oklahoma, and western Texas to Arizona, and southward to Sonora, Coahuila, and San Luis Potosi.