Polygala flavescens, DC.

20. P. flavescens DC. View in CoL , Cat. Pl. Horti Monsp. 134 (1813).

Stems 15-40 cm, ascending to erect. Lower leaves obovate, the others lanceolate to linear-lanceolate. Racemes with 12-25 flowers; bracts 2-5-3-5 mm, exceeding pedicels in flower. Wings 7-5-9 mm, lanceolate to elliptical, acute to shortly acuminate, yellow in flower, greenish-yellow in fruit, with anastomosing veins. Corolla yellow; tube c. 3-5 mm; upper petals much longer than keel and about half as long as wings. Gynophore less than 1 mm in fruit. Capsule 6-7 x 4-5-5 mm, oblong-obovate, shorter and slightly wider than wings. Seeds oblong-ovoid; lateral lobes of strophiole at least half as long as seed. • Italy.?Co It. Plants from sandy grassland near the coast of E.C. Italy, with obtuse wings and shorter lobes to the strophiole, have been distinguished as P. pisaurensis Caldesi, Nuovo Gior. Bot. Ital. 11: 189 (1879).