130 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



The leaflets occur in 10-16 pairs, and are oblong, obliquely mucro- 

 nate, about 3-4 mm. long, strongly pinnately veined from a midrib, 

 which is located very close to the upper margin of the leaflet. The 

 petiolar glands are subsessile and are situated immediately below the 

 lowest pair of leaflets, and the whole plant is pubescent with minute, 

 curved hairs. The plants diff'er from Chamcecrista nictitans chiefly 

 in the smaller leaflets and the more unsymmetrical position of the 

 midrib. The leaflets in the Carnegie Museum specimens of this 

 species are somewhat more numerous and of a somewhat larger 

 maximum size than is given by Britton in his original description. 



296. Chamaecrista savannarum Britton. 



Chamacrisla savannarum Britton, Studies of West Indian Plants, Bulletin of the 

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



"Savannas and pine-lands, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba. 

 Type collected near Siguanea, Isle of Pines( Britton & Wilson, i./j/p)" 

 (Britton, /. c). To this species probably belongs also No. 2QQ, 0. E. 

 Jennings, Pine woods near McKinley, May 14, 1910. 



:297. Delonix regia (Bojer) Rafinesque. Royal Poinciana. Flame 



Tree. Flamboyant. 



Toinciana regia Bojer, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1829, PI. 2884. 

 Delonix regia Rafinesque, Florula Telluriana, II, 1836, p. 92. 

 Colvillea racemosa Bello, Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, 

 X, 1881, p. 257- 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 21, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 507; on 

 Keenan's estate south of Nueva Gerona, May 9, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 181; without locality, February-March, 1910, /. F. Shafer. 

 General Distribution: Native of Madagascar, but now extensively 

 cultivated in the tropics as an ornamental tree, and almost naturalized 

 in some of the West Indian islands. 



298. Poinciana pulcherrima Linnaeus. 



Poinciana pulcherrima "Li^njevs, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, 1753, p. 380. 

 CcEsalpinia pulcherrima Swartz, Observationes Botanicae, 1791, p. 166. 



Without locality, February-March, 1910, /. F. Shafer. General 

 Distribution: Widely distributed in the tropics, extending through 

 the West Indies and reaching southern Florida and the Bahamas. 



