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cuneate at the base, sessile, green and with few inconspicuous 

 veins or veinless above, whitish and veinless beneath, the margin 

 strongly revolute; peduncles axillary, 4-5 mm. long, slender; 

 calyx glabrous, broadly campanulate, 4- or 5-toothed; corolla 

 " bluish " ; blade of the standard rounded, obovate, retuse at the 

 apex, 5 mm. broad ; wings oblanceolate, with a small basal lobe ; 

 keel-petals oblanceolate, 1 cm. long; pod unknown. 



Cayo Guajaba, Camaguey (Shafer 658 and 2823). 



Notodon savannarum Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 



A shrub 0.5-2.5 m. high, the branches stiff", the young shoots 

 finely pubescent. Stipules minute; leaves 1.5 cm. long or less, 

 evenly pinnate, short-petioled, glabrous, the rachis winged be- 

 tween the 2-4 pairs of opposite, sessile leaflets and terminating 

 in a short tip ; leaflets coriaceous, obovate or oblong-obovate, 4-8 

 mm. long, rounded at the apex, obtuse at the base, dark green and 

 veinless above, nearly white and rather strongly pinnately few- 

 veined beneath ; stipels none ; peduncles axillary, solitary, slender, 

 glabrous, 5-8 mm. long; calyx glabrous, broadly campanulate, 

 subtruncate and minutely 5-toothed, about 2 mm. long; corolla 

 rose-purple, about 1 cm. long; pods (immature) 2.5-4 cm. long, 

 3-4 mm. broad. 



Rocky soil, savannas near Camaguey {Britton & Cowell 



I3H9-) 



CANIZARESIA Britton, gen. nov. 



A shrub, with alternate, short-petioled, unevenly pinnate 

 leaves, the small opposite leaflets coriaceous, the stipules obsolete, 

 the flowers in short axillary racemes, the bracts early deciduous, 

 the pedicels short. Calyx subcampanulate, its teeth short, obtuse, 

 nearly equal, the two upper ones partly united. Standard 

 broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, subtruncate at the base, short- 

 clawed, unappendaged ; wings oblong, long-clawed; keel' long- 

 clawed, arcuate, about as long as the wings, 2-lobed at the base. 

 Stamens 10 (9 and 1) ; filaments filiform; anthers ovate, versatile. 

 Ovary narrowly subcylindric, sessile, puberulent ; style nearly as 

 long as the ovary, curved near the base; stigma small, sub-capi- 

 tate. Legume short-stipitate, indehiscent, linear, with four nar- 

 row subcoriaceous wings, more or less constricted between the 

 nearly sessile ovate seeds. [In honor of Professor Felipe Garcia 

 Canizares.] A monotypic genus. 



Canizaresia cubensis (Urban) Britton, comb. nov. 

 Piscidia cubensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 229. 1912. 



