Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 7 



9. Chamaecrista granulata (Urban) Britton, Ann. Missouri 



Bot. Gard. 2: 41. 1915 



Cassia portoricensis granulata Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 318, 1899. 

 Chamaecrista portoricensis granulata Cook & Collins, Contr. Nat. 



Herb. 8: 113. 1903. 



Type locality: Near Salinas de Cabo Rojo, Porto Rico. 



Distribution: Southwestern Porto Rico; Mona. 



10. Chamaecrista pinetorum sp. now 



Shrubby, 4 dm. high, or higher, the branches slender, densely 

 appressed-pubescent with brownish hairs. Stipules linear-lanceo- 

 late, striate, long-acuminate, 4-6 mm. long; leaves 3-5 cm. long, 

 the rachis appressed-pubescent; leaflets 9 pairs or fewer, sub- 

 coriaceous, linear to linear-oblong, 10-15 mm - l n g. 2 ~4 rnm. wide, 

 glabrous on both sides, dull, acute and cuspidate at the apex, 

 obliquely rounded at the base, closely pinnately veined, the 

 prominent midvein nearly central, the petiolar gland slender- 

 stalked; peduncles filiform, appressed-pubescent, 2-bracted, about 

 3 cm. long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 10-12 mm. long; petals 

 obovate, somewhat shorter than the sepals or as long; ovary 

 appressed-pubescent. 



Pine woods, near Constanza, Santo Domingo, at 1,200 m. alt. 

 (Tuerckheim 2887). 



11. Chamaecrista jamaicensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 42: 



515- 1915 

 Type locality: South slope of Long Mountain, Jamaica. 

 Distribution: Southern side of Jamaica. 



12. Chamaecrista portoricensis (Urban) Cook & Collins, Contr. 



Nat. Herb. 8: 113. 1903 



Cassia portoricensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 317. 1899. 

 Cassia portoricensis callosa Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 317. 1899. 

 Chamaecrista portoricensis callosa Cook & Collins, Contr. Nat. 



Herb. 8: 113. 1903. 



Type locality: Near Guayanilla, Porto Rico. 



Distribution: Southern and western Porto Rico. 



