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leaves; sepals 4 to 6.5 mm. long; petals 6.5 to 11 mm. wide; loguiiie 17 to 30 cm. long, 

 0.(i to 1 cm, wide. 



Near Coamo, in thickets between Serillos and Salinas and toward Banos and in 

 woods on Mount San Ildefunso; between Salinas and St, Isabel.— Cuba, Jamaica, 

 Haiti, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent (Griaebacli), Margarita. Colombia, Central America. 



12, Cassia diphylla hM 



(Urban, 275.) 



Annual, suffrutescent, glabrous, 0.33 to 1 meter high; leafletR L5 to 2.5 cm, long, 

 0.8 tu 1.25 cm. wide; stipules largt^, very acute, scaiious; sepals 6.5 to 13 mm, long; 

 petals shorter than tlie sepals; legume 3 to 5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide; seeds oblong, 

 oblique to the margins of the legume. 



-Xear Bayamon, on declivities toward Toa Baja; near Santurce; near Humacao, on 

 grassy declivities at Buenavista; near Salinas de Cabo Rojo, on the seashore and on 

 Mount Juliana; near Rincon, in rocky places on the mountains; near Agua<Ux, in liekls 

 at Piedra Blanca; near Manati, around the lagoon of Tortuguero in sandy districts near 

 Canipo.— Cuba, Haiti, St, Kitts (Grisebach), St, Vincent. Tropical America: from 

 Brazil to Central America and ^lexico. 



Cassia diphylla is easily recognized, as it is the only Porto Rican Cassia species with 

 but one pair of leaflets. 



Local names, hediondilla, zarzabacoa. 



13. Cassia portoricensis Urb,& 



(Urban, 275.) 



Small shrub, 0.25 to 0.60 meters higli; leafl<'ts 8 to 15 mm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide; 

 stipules lanceolate, acuminate; inflorescence 1 or 2-flo\vered; sepals lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 6.5 to 8 mm, long; petals obovate or orbicular-obovate, 12 to 15 mm. long, 

 short-clawed; stamens 8, 



Cassia portoricensis callosa Uro, 



(Urban, 275.) 



Leaflets on the margin calh)se-inerassat(^, glal)rous or suljpilose; inllorescenee usually 

 2-flower(n!. 



Xear Guayanilla, (m calcarei>us mountains near Penon; near Mayaguez. 

 Local name, rctauia. 



Cassia portoricensis granulata Url). 



(Url)an, 275.) 



Shrub 0.3 to J nutter high; h-allets not eallos(^ on lh(^ margin, pilose; inflorescence 

 l-f!owered. 



Near P(mce, cm the harbor; nc^ar Salinas de Cabo Rojo, in forests of the seashore; 

 near Guanica, in thickets on Mount El Manii'l and in salty places on the seashore. 

 Indigenous. 



Local name, escobllla. 



This species is distinguished from the related species by its subcoriaceous, oblique 

 leaves. 



«Cook and Collins, p. 112, as Cliauiacahla diphylla. 

 &Cook and Collins, p. 113, as Chavtaecrista portoricensis 



