Combs — Plants Collected in the District of Cienfuegos. 419 



fertile grass land along the coast. Cienfuegos, Aug. 13, '95. 

 (448.) 



Acacia polypyrigenes Greenman, n. sp. 



"A spreading shrub or low tree, 3 to 5 meters high: 

 branches with red or grayish bark, dotted with numerous small 

 lenticels: leaves alternate, bipinnate, on short (3 to 4 milli- 

 meters long) petioles ; pinnae 1 to 5 pairs; leaflets 8 to 14 pairs, 

 small, 1 to 2 millimeters long, scarcely 1 millimeter broad, 

 oblong, rounded at the apex, a little oblique at the base, 

 entire, glabrous, sessile or nearly so ; stipules of short straight 

 or slightly recurved spines, 3 to 6 millimeters long: flowers 

 in heads on single axillary slender peduncles; the heads 

 about 6 millimeters in diameter; peduncles 8 millimeters 

 long; the young pod smooth except on the outer surface of 

 either valve, where there is a narrow glandular area extend- 

 ing two-thirds its entire length; mature fruit not seen. — 

 Collected by Robert Combs at Faro Villa Nueva, near the 

 entrance to the Bay of Cienfuegos, Cuba, October 18, 1895, 

 no. 602. 



" A species apparently belonging to Bentham's series 

 Gummiferae, subseries Semibracteateae, and most nearly 

 related to A. Farnesiana, and A. (ortuosa Willd., being dis- 

 tinguished from the former by the smaller leaflets and 

 different habit, from the latter by the shorter stipular spines, 

 the smaller leaflets, and the character of the pod." — Plate 

 xxxm. 



Lysiloma latisiliqua Benth. 



A tree, 15 to 20 feet high, in fertile red soil, savannahs, 

 uncommon. Cieneguita S., Aug. 1, '96. (367.) 



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L. Sabicu Benth. " Sabicu. 



A tree, 10 to 15 feet high, on fertile coast hills, not 

 frequent. Castillo de Jagua, Sept. 17, '95. (553.) 



Calliandra pauciflora Griseb. 



A hardy shrub, 6 inches to 4 feet high, decumbent or 

 upright, and spreading. Common along small streams in 



