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somewhat puberulent, 1-2 dm. long, the stout petioles 2 cm. 

 long or less, the glands on the rachis between the pinnae 

 orbicular, small. Pinnae 3 or 4 pairs; leaflets 4-6 pairs, obo 

 vate, chartaceous, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, dark green above, pale 

 beneath, loosely reticulate- veined, obtuse or retuse at the apex, 

 obliquely narrowed at the base; peduncles axillary, puberulent 

 above, 5-1 1 cm. long; flowers short-racemose; pedicels puberu- 

 lent, 4-6 mm. long; calyx narrowly campanulate, 4-5 mm. long, 

 narrowed to the base, puberulent, its teeth ovate, 1 mm. long; 

 corolla 7-8 mm. long, campanulate-funnelform, pubescent, its 

 lobes oblong-ovate, ciliate; stamans 1.5-2 cm. long, the filaments 

 united about one-fourth their length; pod coiled, 6-8 cm. long, 

 8-10 mm. wide, more or less constricted between the seeds; seeds 

 blue and white, shining, orbicular, 4 mm. broad, the funicle 

 slender. 



Provinces of Havana, Pinar del Rio and Camagiiey. Type 

 from Batabano, April 10, 1903 {Shafer 161); apparently the same 

 species at Old Kerr's Point, Abaco, Bahamas {Brace 2017). 



8. Pithecolobium truncatum sp. nov. 



A tree up to 12 m. high, the bark rough, the young twigs and 

 leaves brownish-puberulent, the old foliage glabrous. Leaves 15 

 cm. long or less; petiole stout, 1-2 cm. long; glands oblong- 

 orbicular; pinnae I or 2 pairs; leaflets 3 or 4 pairs (on leaves of 

 shoots 1 or 2 pairs), obovate, coriaceous, 1.5-4 cm - l n g (those of 

 shoots larger and suborbicular), obtuse at the apex, narrowed 

 at the base, pinnately veined; peduncles axillary, 4-9 cm. long; 

 flowers short-racemose; pedicels stout, puberulent, about 2 mm. 

 long; calyx broadly campanulate, puberulent, coriaceous, 3 mm. 

 long, the limb truncate, the teeth minute, mucronate; corolla 

 finely pubescent, its tube 5-6 mm. long, its lobes 3 mm. long, 

 lanceolate, acute; stamens about 2.5 cm. long, the filaments 

 united about one-fourth their length; pod curved to a nearly 

 complete circle, 6 or 7 cm. long, 8-10 mm. wide, scarcely or not at 

 all constricted between the seeds; seeds blue and white, somewhat 

 compressed, obovate, shining, 4 or 5 mm. long. 



Southern Oriente. Type from gravelly hills, El Cobre, west 

 of Santiago, March 23, 1912 {Britton, Cowell & Shafer 12874). 



9. Pithecolobium obovale (A. Rich.) C. Wright; Sauvalle. 



Anales Acad. Habana 5: 407. 1868 

 Inga obovalis A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 1: 472. 1845. 

 Calliandra revoluta Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 83. 1866. 



