Britton: Studies of West Indian plants Hi:; 



long, 4-6 mm. broad; bracts ovate to orbicular-ovate, 4-5 mm. 

 long, 3.5-4 mm. broad, acute at the apex; lateral sepals included; 

 keel toothed from the apex to below the middle; petals broadly 

 obovate, 5 mm. long, 3.5-4 mm. broad. 



White sand, vicinity of Los Indios, Isle of Pines (Britton, 

 Britton & Wilson 14215). 



Chamaecrista micrantha sp. nov. 



Stems several from a woody root, ascending or suberect, few- 

 branched or simple, slender, villous, 2-3 dm. long. Stipules 

 lanceolate acuminate, 2.5-4 mm. long; leaves 8-18 mm. long; 

 petiolar gland short-stalked; rachis villous; leaflets 10-24, oblong, 

 villous, 3-3.5 mm. long, mucronulate, the midvein very excentric; 

 peduncles very slender, villous, 6-15 mm. long; sepals lanceolate, 

 acute, villous, about 4 mm. long; petals rounded, 5 mm. long; 

 pod linear, finely pubescent, 2-3 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide. 



Pine-lands and savannas, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba. 



Type collected near San Pedro, Isle of Pines (Britton & Wilso?i 



142Q4). Referred by Grisebach to Cassia pygmaea DC, and taken 



up by Bentham under Cassia procumbens L., but the type of C. pro- 



cumbens is the same as C. nictitans L. 



Chamaecrista savannarum sp. nov. 



Stems several from a deep woody root, slender, ascending or 

 erect, short-pubescent, 2-4 dm. high, simple or little-branched. 

 Stipules lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-4 mm. long, acuminate, 

 strongly veined; leaves 2.5 cm. long or less, the rachis pubescent; 

 petioles 2-4 mm. long, bearing a scutellate, sessile or very short- 

 stalked gland; leaflets 3-13 pairs, appressed-pubescent or glabrate, 

 oblong or linear-oblong, 3-7 mm. long, somewhat oblique, aristu- 

 late, the midvein very excentric; peduncles slender or nearly fili- 

 form, 8-20 mm. long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, slightly pu- 

 bescent, 4-5 mm. long; petals 7-8 mm. long; pod linear, sparingly 

 pubescent, 3-4 cm. long, 4 mm. wide. 



Savannas and pine-lands, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba. 

 Type collected near Siguanea, Isle of Pines (Britton & Wilson 



14379)- 



Bauhinia Jenningsii P. Wilson, sp. nov. 



A slender shrub or tree, sometimes 5 m. high; young twigs, 

 branches of the inflorescence, under surface of the leaves and pods 

 finely puberulent with minute, mostly appressed hairs; petioles 



