Plantae novae bahamenses. II. 245 



s*ame vine, r oWj,te to oval or nearly orbicular, acute or obtuse and mucro- 

 Tiulate at the apex, quite glabrous when mature, entire, or often 3-lobed, 

 firm in texture and strongly veined on the under side; achenes plump, 

 only 3 mm long, the filiform plumose style 3 — 5 cm long; flowers not 

 yet collected. 



Bahamas Islands. Dr. Kuntze gave the name to this plant only 

 from his study of Mr. Brace's no. 391 in the Kew Herbarium, which is. 

 a scrap collected on Eleuthera, showing the young leaves just unrolling 

 and from which he obtained the faulty impression that the leaflets are 

 linear in outline. Our collections illustrate the species from Abaco 

 {Brace, 1516, 1594, 1931); Great Bahama (Britton & Millspaugh, 

 2393); Great Exuma (Britton & Millspaugh, 3051). It seems to be 

 more nearly related to C. dioica L., the type locality of which is Jamaica, 

 than to any other species. 



20. Caesalpinia reticulata N. L. Britton, 1. c, p. 118. 



A shrub or small tree, 4 m high or less, similar to C. bahamerms 

 Stem and branches unarmed in all specimens observed; young shoots 

 puberulent; leaflets 2 to 4 pairs, obliquely oval or obliquely obovate, 

 coriaceous, glabrous when mature, strongly finely reticulate-nerved and 

 shining above, dull and less prominently nerved beneath, rounded, trun- 

 cate or slightly emarginate at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, 

 1,5 — 5 cm long, 3 cm wide or less, very inequilateral; petiolules 2— 3 mm 

 long; racemes solitary or 2 or 3 together, 2 dm long or less; flowers 

 yellowish-white; pedicels ascending, 1 — 2 cm long, becoming very stout 

 in fruit; calyx stipitate, the tube nearly hemispheric, its lower lobe 

 hooded, rather more than twice as long as the other broad acutish ones; 

 stamens long-exserted; legume flat, smooth, 6 — 9 cm long. 1.5 cm wide, 

 its stipe somewhat longer than or equaling the persistent calyx-tube. 



Bahamas Islands. Inagua (Nash & Taylor, 1012 type; 1269, 

 1419, 1456). C. bahamensis Lam., based on Catesby's plate (vol. 2: pi. 51), 

 and well illustrated there, is a taller tree, with smaller, less strongly 

 nerved and nearly equilateral leaflets, its stem and branches abundantly 

 armed with prickles, its pedicels more slender and its flowers somewhat 

 smaller; the flowers are not white as described by Catesby, but greenish 

 yellow. It is known to me from New Providence (Cooper, 94; Coker. 

 84; Curtiss, 128; Eggers, 4176; Britton, 2; Britton & Brace, 539) 

 and Andros (Northrop, 426a). It is recorded by Professor Urban (Symb. 

 Ant. 2: 278) from Acklin Island and Fortune Island. 



21. Guilandina ovalifolia (Urban) N. L. Britton, 1. c, p. 118. 

 Caesalpinia ovalifolia Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 273. 



Bahamas Islands. Common in coastal coppices on New Provi- 

 dence and Hog Island (Northrop, 116, type; Britton & Brace, 276. 

 329; Curtiss, 143); Eleuthera (Coker, 360). The leaflets vary from 

 rounded to narrowed at the base, and their terminal mucro is often 

 2 mm long; racemes solitary or in pairs 1,5— 2 dm long; bracts narrowly 

 lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, 8 mm long, soon spreading; pedicels 



