Hebecarpa costaricensis (Chodat) J. R. Abbott & J. F. B. Pastore

Polygala costaricensis Chod. Bull. Soc. Bot Belg. 30 1 : 298. 1891.
IPolygala gualemalensis Gand. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 60: 454. 1913. Not P. guatemalensis A. W. Benn. 1895.
Several-stemmed from a suffruticulose base, 2-6 dm. high, ascending or erect, more or less densely incurvedpuberulous with few or many longer spreading hairs intermixed; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-6.5 cm. long, 8-23 mm. wide, acute or acuminate, mucronulate, thin but chartaceous, somewhat reticulate, rather sparsely incurved-puberulous, usually with a few longer but scarcely spreading hairs intermixed; racemes loose, 3-12.5 cm. long; flowers purplish; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 2.5-3 mm. long; wings oblong to oblong-oval, 8-10 mm. long, 4.2-6 mm. wide, rounded, sparsely puberulous along costa and at apex; keel glabrous, 8-9.5 mm. long; capsule oval, ciliate and spreading-puberulous, 10.5 mm. long; seed short-pilose; aril 2.7 mm. high, with small densely pilose umbo, the undulate-lobulate scarious margin broad, the dorsal margin abruptly erectish, the anterior obliquely descending.
Type locality: San Jose, Costa Rica. Distribution: Guatemala and Costa Rica.