6 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



Type locality: Brazil. 



Distribution: Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba; con- 

 tinental tropical America. 



Illustration: Breyn, pi. 23. 



6. Chamaecrista grammica (Spreng.) Pollard, Field Col. Mus. 



Bot. 2: 47. 1900 



Cassia grammica Spreng. Neue Entd. 3: 55. 1822. 



Cassia lineata brachyloba Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 179. 



i860. 



Type locality: Maritime regions, Cuba and Hispaniola. 



Distribution: Cuba (according to Sprengel) and collected 

 by Wright in Oriente; Hispaniola; Porto Rico; Little St. James 

 Island, St. Jan. 



The plant of southern Florida, referred to this species by Chap- 

 man and by Small, is distinct, according to the studies of Dr. 

 Pennell. 



7. Chamaecrista obcordata (Sw.). 



Cassia obcordata Sw.; Wikstr. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 1825: 429. 



1826. 



Type locality: St. Bart's. 



Distribution: St. Bart's; I refer, with doubt, Dr. Boldinghs' 

 No. 5288B from St. Martin to this species, which he recorded as 

 Cassia polyadena DC. (Fl. Nederl. West Ind. 211); the St. Martin 

 plant is more nearly related to C. lineata than to C. polyadena. 

 Bentham indicates the same affinity for the plant of St. Bart's 

 (Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 572). No modern collections have been 

 made on St. Bart's; it lies close to St. Martin. 



8. Chamaecrista lineata (Sw.) Greene, Pittonia 4: 31. 1899 



Cassia lineata Sw. Prodr. 66. 1788. 



Cassia cuneata Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 80. 1866. Not C. cuneata 



DC. 



Type locality: Jamaica. 



Distribution: Jamaica; Cuban provinces of Oriente, Cam- 

 aguey and Santa Clara, and Isle of Pines; Hispaniola; Bahamas. 

 Specimens from the south coast of Santa Clara, Cuba, have 

 puberulent foliage. 



