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284. Lysiloma bahamensis Bentham. Singing Beans. 



Lysiloma bahamensis Bentham, Hooker's London Journal of Botany, III, 1844, 



p. 82. 

 Acacia bahamensis Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, i860, 



p. 221. 

 Lysiloma latisiliqua A. Gray, in Sauvalle, Flora Cubana, 1869, p. 35. 



Forming a rather prominent part of the woods (chaparral) near 

 Hato, in the interior of the peninsula, north of Caleta Grande, May 

 22, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 628. General Distribution: Florida 

 Keys, Bahamas, Cuba, Isle of Pines. 



285. Mimosa pudica Linnaeus. Sensitive Plant. 

 Mimosa pudica Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, i753. P- S18. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 27, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 466; open 

 field in jungle at Los Indios, May 20, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 440. 

 General Distribution: Generally through the West Indies and conti- 

 nental tropical America, and also introduced into the tropics of the 

 Old World. 



In places on the Isle of Pines this plant becomes a very common 

 weed, as at the Jucaro Landing, where the open field was practically 

 covered with it, and where one's path could be traced for some time 

 by the different appearance of the drooping leaves of the plants which 

 had been disturbed. 



286. Neptunia plena (Linnaeus) Bentham. 



Mimosa plena Linn^us, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 519. 



Desmanthus plenus Willdenow, Species Plantarum, IV, (II), 1806, p. 1045. 



Neptunia plena Bentham, in Hooker, Journal of Botany, IV, 1842, p. 355; Grise- 

 bach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands, i860, p. 218. 



Desmanthus comosus A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de 

 la Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, pp. 212, 213. 



" Crescit in insula Pinorum." 1831. A. H. Lanier. (Richard, /. c). 



General Distribution: From Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and Jamaica, 



southeast through the West Indies and into northern South America; 



also introduced into tropical Asia. 



Family C^SALPINIACE^. 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Leaves with one pair of leaflets, or with but one leaflet. 



Leaflet single 287. Bauhinia Jenningsii. 



Leaflets united for two- thirds of their length; shrub or small tree. 



288. Bauhinia carihse - , 



