66 Britton: Cuban Plants New to Science 



long, the branches puberulent; fruit (immature) subglobose, 9 

 mm. in diameter. 



Type collected at Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, 

 Oriente (Shafer 8248) . 



Family CAESALPINIACEAE 

 Cassia benitoensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



Shrub 1-3 m. tall ; young twigs, petioles and rachis pubescent 

 with short, stiff, incurved hairs. Leaves 5-9 cm. long, glandular, 

 the gland slender, 2 mm. high, situated between the leaflets of 

 the lowest pair ; petioles and rachis narrowly grooved ; stipules 

 lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long, acuminate ; leaflets 5-6 pairs, oblong- 

 elliptic or elliptic, 1.5-2.4 cm. long, I 1.2 cm. broad, rounded 

 and mucronulate at the apex, rounded and inequilateral at the 

 base, the margins ciliate ; pods flat, 14 cm. long, 8 mm. broad. 



Along rocky stream, vicinity of Camp San Benito, Oriente 

 {Shafer 40/2). 



Caesalpinia subglauca Britton, sp. nov. 



An unarmed shrub, 2.5 m. high, the twigs glabrous. Leaves 

 bipinnate; petiole rather stout, 1 1.5 cm. long; pinnae 5 or 7, the 

 lower opposite or alternate, 5-10 cm. long, the rachis loosely 

 pubescent; leaflets 9-15, sessile, coriaceous, glabrous, oblong- 

 ovate to ovate-orbicular, 1-2.5 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide, strongly 

 reticulate-veined above, pale and subglaucous beneath, the apex 

 rounded or emarginate, the base rounded or subcordate, oblique ; 

 fruiting pedicels stout, about 2 cm. long ; pods flat, thin, puberu- 

 lent, obliquely oblong, dehiscent, 3-5 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. 



wide, sharply beaked. 



Hillside thicket, near Santiago, Oriente (Britton & Cozvell 

 12596) 



Caesalpinia myabensis Britton, sp. nov. 



A shrub about 1.3 m. high, with slender gray branches, the 

 young twigs densely short-pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, the 

 petiole and rachis densely short-pubescent ; petiole 1-1. 5 cm. long; 

 pinnae 5-7, opposite, 3-5 cm. long; leaflets 7-17, sessile, coria- 

 ceous, loosely pubescent, dark-green and shining above, pale, dull 

 and pubescent on the midvein beneath, strongly pinnately veined. 

 6-12 mm. long; inflorescence racemose; fruiting pedicels erect, 

 slender, pubescent, 2-2.5 cm - l n & ! pods obliquely oblong, spread- 

 ing, about 3 cm. long, I 1.3 cm. wide, subulate-tipped, puberulent. 



