Britton: Cuban Plants New to Science 67 



Dry hill, between Holguin and Myabe, Oriente (Shafer 



I403)- 



Caesalpinia Hornei Britton, sp. now 



A shrub with unarmed branches ; the twigs, petioles and 

 rachis pubescent with short incurved hairs. Leaves bipinnate ; 

 petioles rather slender, 1.5 1.7 cm. long; pinnae 5-7, opposite, 

 5.57.5 cm. long; leaflets 71 1, broadly oblong to somewhat 

 oblong-ovate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, and 0.9-1.5 cm. broad, rounded 

 and emarginate at the apex, truncate and more or less inequi- 

 lateral at the base, sessile, reticulate-veined on both surfaces, 

 glabrous and somewhat lustrous above, paler and dull beneath ; 

 inflorescence racemose; flowering pedicels erect, slender, loosely 

 pubescent, about 2 cm. long ; corolla yellow, 2-2.4 cm. broad ; 

 petals obovate, 1-1.2 cm. long, 8-10 mm. broad. 



Savanna, Ciego de Avila, Camaguey (Home pfj) . 



Family FABACEAE 

 Harpalyce macrocarpa Britton & Wilson, sp. now 



A tree 4 m. high, or more, with slender, spreading branches, 

 the twigs, petioles and rachis densely puberulent with ferruginous 

 hairs. Leaves odd-pinnate, 10-14 cm. long, the petioles 1-2 cm. 

 long; leaflets 11 15, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 2.2-3.8 cm. long, 

 1 1 .5 cm. broad, rounded and emarginate at the apex, rounded 

 and often subcordate at the base, short-petioled, coriaceous, gla- 

 brous and rather dull above, the veins slender and rather indis- 

 tinct, finely reticulate-veined and glandular beneath, glabrous 

 with the exception of the midvein ; legume spatulate-oblanceolate, 

 5-6 cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad near the apex, more or less curved, 

 glabrous. 



Border of arroyo, palm barren, Santa Clara (Britton & 

 Cowell 1 3 28 '4). 



Harpalyce villosa Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A tree 3-4 m. high, with rather stout grayish branches, the 

 twigs, petioles, rachis and under surface of the leaflets densely 

 short-villous with ferruginous hairs when young. Leaves 6-7.5 

 cm. long, the petioles about 1.5 cm. long; leaflets oblong or elliptic- 

 oblong, 2-2.7 cm - l n g> 0.6-1.2 cm. broad, rounded and emargi- 

 nate at the apex, rounded at the base, short-petioluled, thick- 

 coriaceous, dark-green, glabrous and shining above, paler, 

 indistinctly veined and conspicuously impressed glandular beneath, 



