Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 129 



(distributed as Cassia Ahsiis); weed, dry pasture west of Nueva 

 Gerona, May 5, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 31. General Distribution: 

 Central America to northern Brazil, Isle of Pines, Cuba. 



292. Cassia rotundifolia Persoon, 



Cassia rotundifolia Persoon, Synopsis Plantarum seu Enchiridium Botanicum, I, 



1805, p. 456. 

 Cassia bifoliolaia DeCandolle, in Colladon, Histoire Naturelle et Medicale des 



Casses, 1816, p. 120, PI. 9, fig. B. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 27, 1903, A. H. Ctirtiss, No. 25Q. 



General Distribution: Mexico to Brazil, Isle of Pines, Cuba, and 



Jamaica. 



293. Chamaecrista diphylla (Linnaeus) Greene. 



Cassia diphylla Linn^us, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, 1753, p. 376. 

 ChamcBcrista diphylla Greene, Pittonia, IV, 1899, p. 28. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 15, 1903, A. H. Curtiss, No. 22g; 

 open spot in jungle at Los Indios, May 20, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 4S3; near Los Indios, November 12, 1912, G. A. Link. General 

 Distribution: Widely spread through the tropics, although probably 

 indigenous to America. 



294. Chamaecrista lineata (Swartz) Greene. 



Cassia lineata Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occidentalis, 



1788, p. 66. 

 ChamcBcrista lineata Greene, Pittonia, IV, 1899, p. 31. 



On beach at Siguanea City, May 21, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 460; 

 open places in the woods near Caleta Grande, May 22, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 521. A common low shrub in these spots. General 

 Distribution: Jamaica, Isle of Pines. 



295. Chamaecrista micrantha Britton. 



CharncEcrista micrantha Britton, Studies of West Indian Plants, Bulletin of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, XLIII, 1916, p. 463. 



In pine-barrens near Majagua River, north of Los Indios, May 19, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 403; in grassy savanna, along arroyo, near 

 Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 534; "Pine-lands and 

 savannas, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba. Type collected near 

 San Pedro, Isle of Pines {Britton & Wilson, 142Q4). Referred by 

 Grisebach to Cassia pygmcEa DC, and taken up by Bentham under 

 Cassia procumhens L., but the type of C. procumbens is the same as 

 C. nictitans L." (Britton, /. c). 



