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Leaves glandular, 8-10 cm. long; petiole and rachis grooved above, 

 sparingly appressed-pubescent; petiole 1-2 cm. long; leaflets 

 6-8 pairs, linear-lanceolate, chartaceous, 2-4 cm. long, acute and 

 mucronate at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, rather 

 dark green and glabrous above, pale green and sparingly pubescent 

 beneath, the pubescent petiolules about 2 mm. long; flowers loosely 

 corymbose; pedicels slender, puberulent, about I cm. long; sepals 

 very unequal, sparingly pubescent, ciliate, the larger ones 4-5 mm. 

 long; petals bright yellow, the larger 6-7 mm. long; perfect an- 

 thers 7, about 3 mm. long; pod linear, glabrous, 3-4.5 cm. long, 

 6-7 mm. wide, reticulate-veined, abruptly acute, septate between 

 the seeds. 



Hillside, Berraco, near Daiquiri, Oriente {Britton & Cowell 

 12664) 



Among West Indian species, perhaps most nearly related to C. 

 domingensis Spreng. 



Cassia Shaferi Britton & Wilson, sp. now 



Shrub 1 m. tall; twigs, petioles, rachis, and branches of the 

 inflorescence hirsutulous. Leaves 6.5-10 cm. long, glandular, the 

 gland slender, 1.5-2 mm. high, acutish or obtuse, situated either 

 between the leaflets of the lowest pair or below on the petiole; 

 petioles and rachis grooved; stipules narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 

 6-7 mm. long, acuminate; leaflets 4-6 pairs, oblong to elliptic, 

 1.5-3 cm - long, 7-12 mm. broad, rounded and mucronulate at the 

 apex, rounded and very inequilateral at the base, sparingly hir- 

 sutulous on the midrib above, hirsutulous beneath, the hairs 

 scattered and mostly appressed, short-petioluled; margin thick- 

 ened, ciliate; pedicels hirsutulous; buds subglobose; sepals densely 

 hirsutulous; pod flat, 11 cm. long, 9 mm. broad; seeds 3.5-4.5 

 mm. long. 



Pine-lands near the base of Loma Mensura, Oriente {Shafer 

 377) ; also collected in open places at base of Loma Mensura 

 {Shafer 3803). 



Apparently closely related to Cassia bahamensis Mill. 



Pachyanthus reticulatus Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub 1-1.5 m. tall; young twigs compressed, more or less 

 grooved, ferruginous, stellately scabrous-puberulent. Leaves 

 ovate, 9-12 cm. long, 5-7 cm. broad, obtuse at the apex, cordate 

 at the base, above densely ferruginously stellate-puberulent when 

 young, glabrescent, lustrous and dark green in age, the venation 

 strongly impressed, below pale brown, reticulate-veined and 



