MARCH, igoo. PLANTVE UTOWAN^ MILLSPAUGH. 47 



CASSIA SOPHERA Linn. Sp. PI. 379. (Ex. char). 



Roadside near San Domingo City (872), and on 'the slopes of 

 Morro Hill, Santiago de Cuba (1090). 



CASSIA TORA Linn. Sp. PI. 376. 



Banks of a dry brook near Caguas, Porto Rico (236). 



CASSIA, sp. 



Near C. bicapsularis but too juvenile. Port Antonio, Jamaica 



CASSIA, sp. 



Juvenile and lacking determinative characters. Environs of San 

 Domingo City (783). 



CHAM^ECRISTA* ASPERA (Muhl.) Greene infra cit. 



Cassia aspera Muhl. In sand of roadside near Spot Bay, Grand 

 Cayman (1305). 



CHAM^ECRISTA DIPHYLLA (L.) Greene Pitton. 4: 28. 



In a coco grove near the sea at Santurce, Porto Rico (291). 



Chamsecrista complexa Pollard, n. sp. 



Plant shrubby with erect or spreading branches, the stems finely 

 strigose-pubescent ; leaves glabrous, 4-i3-foliolate, green above, much 

 paler beneath, 2.2-2.7 cm - l n g '> stipules herbaceous, lanceolate, 

 conspicuously striate ; leaflets elliptical or occasionally obovate, 

 obtuse, tipped with a prominent cusp, the midvein somewhat eccen- 

 tric, 5.5-7 mm. long; petiolar gland discoid, stipitate ; flower large, 

 .8-2 cm. in diameter; sepals membranaceous, very unequal; petals 

 obovate, exceeding the sepals ; legume nearly straight, linear, com- 

 pressed, the surface of its valves glabrous or with a few scattered 

 hairs. 



Collected on roadsides at Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas, January 

 17-18 (375). Type in the herbarium of the Field Columbian Museum, 

 Cat. No. 60,375. Nos. 469 and 498, collected high on the mountain 

 at the same place, are also to be referred here. 



The plant is a very distinct member of the large-flowered section 

 of Chamsecrista, yet suggesting the nictitans group in its foliage and 

 in the slender stipitate petiolar gland. 



CHAMSECRISTA GLANDULOSA (L.) Greene, Pitton. 4: 28. 



Cassia glandtilosa Linn. Sp. PI. 572 (1753). Under coco trees in 

 an orchard near the sea at Santurce, Porto Rico (268, 286). 



Chamsecrista grammica (Spreng.) Pollard, comb. nov. 



Cassia grammica Spreng. Neue. Entd. 3:55 (1822). Dry sandy 

 field near Playa, Porto Rico (682). 



Chamsecrista Millspaughii Pollard, n. sp. 



Stems branching, erect, shrubby, at least at the base, finely 

 strigose subescent ; leaves pubescent or becoming glabrate with age, 

 2.5-4 cm - l n g> 5-i5-foliolate, the rachis sparsely hirsute; petiolar 



*This genus also by Mr. Charles L. Pollard. 



