180 N. L, Britton. 
2. Cassia Inaguensis N. L. Britton, |. c., p. 443. 
A much branched shrub, 6-12 dm high, the twigs pubescent. 
Leaflets 1 or 2 pairs, glabrous, coriaceous, rigid, shining, oblong to ob- : 
lanceolate, strongly and finely many-veined, emarginate or rounded at 
the apex, narrowed but not cuneate at the base, more or less inequi- 
lateral, 1,5—3 cm long, 5—13 mm wide; petiole 2—6 mm long, sparingly 
pubescent, bearing a stipitate gland near the apex; stipules lanceolate- 
subulate, 2—4 mm long, pubescent, persistent; flowers solitary in the 
axils, numerous, the filiform sparingly pubescent peduncles 2—3 cm 
long; sepals pubescent, at least at the base, obliquely lanceolate, acu- 
minate, 1 cm long or less; petals golden yellow about 1,5 cm Jong: 
young legume densely pubescent. 
Bahama Islands: Inagua (Nash & Taylor, 910, type; 1261). 
Apparently nearest to C. lineata Sw. 
3. Bursera Inaguensis N. L. Britton, l. c., p. 443. 
A shrub or small tree, 3,3 m high or less, the twigs gray, the foliage 
glabrous. Petiole slender, terete, 2—5 cm long; leaflets 3—7, thin but 
firm, light green both sides, not strongly veined, oblong to oblanceolate 
or obovate, acute or obtuse at the mucronate apex, narrowed or cuneate 
at the base, 6 cm long or less, 1—2 cm wide, the upper surface faintly 
shining, the under side dull; lateral leaflets sessile or with petiolules 
1—2 mm long, the terminal one with a petiolule 3—8 mm long; panicles 
several, axillary, as long as the leaves or shorter, the slender peduncles 
1—6 em long; pedicels 2— 3 mm long; calyx-teeth broadly triangular, 
acute; petals oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2,5 mm long; fruit 6—8 mm 
long, only one cavity seed-bearing; seed 4—6 mm long, acute, short- 
stipitate, 
Bahama Islands: Moujean Harbor, Little Inagua, Oct. 20, 1904 
(Nash & Taylor, 1190, type; 1204, 1205); abundant on Inagua (Nash 
& Taylor, 1279, 1329, 1393). Erroneously referred by Hitehcoek in 
Aun. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. IV, 69, to Bursera angustata Griseb., of Cuba. 
4. Sarcomphalus Taylori N. L. Britton, |. c., p. 445. 
A glabrous, densely branched shrub, I m high or less, same of the 
branches long and prostrate, the bark gray, the twigs green, angled, 
unarmed, or occasionally with a spine 1—2 cm long in the upper axils. 
Leaves alternate, obovate, bright green on both sides, but a little paler 
beneath than above, 1.5 — 2,5 em long, 2 cm wide or less, emarginate 
or rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base, 3-nerved just above the 
base, the veins elevated on the upper surface, and impressed in the 
lower; petioles 2 mm long; flowers in small clusters at the ends of the 
branches, green, glabrous, 3 mm broad, on pedicels 2 mm long; calyx 
campanulate, 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, acute, 1 mm long; petals clawed, 
hooded, about as long as the calyx-lobes and the stamens; ovary oblong, 
tipped with two slightly divergent styles. 
Bahama Islands: Inagua, on Salt Pond Hill (Nash & Taylor, 
961, type); Moujean Harbor, Little Inagua (Nash & Taylor, 1199). 
