Asemeia mollis (Kunth) J. F. B. Pastore & J. R. Abbott

Polygala mollis H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5: 406. 1823
.Herbaceous, probably perennial, sparsely branched, 3 dm. high or more, densely pilosulous and pilose, the short hairs incurved, the long ones straight, widely spreading; leaves elliptic, 1.6-2.4 cm. long, 5-1 1 mm. wide, acutish to rounded at the slightly mucronulate apex, cuneate to rounded at base, green both sides, pubescent like the stem, rather strongly veined; racemes rather dense, 1.8-3.5 cm. long; pedicels 1.5 mm. long; upper sepal elliptic, obtuse, rather densely ciliate with a few of the hairs glandular, 2.4 mm. long; lower sepals similar, united nearly to apex, l.S mm. long; wings suborbicular-obovate, short-clawed, slightly inequilateral, emarginate, reticulate, glabrous, 3.8-4.1 mm. long, 3-3.2 mm. wide; capsule oval, 3.5 mm. long, 2.7 mm. wide; seed oblong-cylindric, densely silky-pilose, 2.8 mm. long; aril casqueshaped, short-pilose, 0.9 mm. long.
Type locality: Near Carichana, Venezuela. Distribution: Panama to northern South America.