Polygala uncinata E. Mey. ex Meisn.

Polygala uncinata C. Wright; Milisp. Field Mus Publ. Bot. 1: 429. 1900.
Very slender erect annual, 1.3-3.5 dm. high, simple or sparsely branched above, glabrous or sparsely papillose-glandular, often essentially naked at flowering time; lowest leaves in 3-6 remote whorls of 2-5, elliptic, 1.5-4 mm. long, 0.3-0.9 mm. wide, acute, thickish; lower, middle, and upper leaves scattered, scale-like, subulate or lance-subulate, 1-2 mm. long, 0.2-0.6 mm. wide, acuminate, sessile by a broad base; bracts lanceolate, ciliolate, deciduous, 0.8 mm. long; pedicels 1-1.3 mm. long; flowers purplish-pink; sepals oval to lance-elliptic, rounded or obtuse, glabrous, 1.2-1.8 mm. long; wings oval, 3 mm. long, 1.8-2 mm. wide, rounded, short-clawed, 3-nerved; keel 2.8 mm. long, the crest on each side of a lamella and 2 deeply 2-3-fid lobes; capsule suborbicular-oval, 1.5-2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; seed shortly apiculate at base, uncinate-pilose, 0.9-1 mm. long; aril obsolete.
Type locality: Isle of Pines.
Distribution: Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines.