128 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



15-25, zygomorphis; calyce per anthesin spathaceo, reflexo et demum 

 marcescente, minute piloso, 5-dentato, circiter 15-20 mm. longo; 

 petalis 5, subequalibus, 10-16 mm. longis, 2-3.5 rnni- latis, circiter 

 4 mm. longe unguiculatis, lanceolatis, longe acuminatis, margine 

 undulatis; staminibus fauci insertis, infimo fertili, usque 2-3 cm. 

 longo, arcuato, anantheris 9, supra basin plus minusve connato- 

 spathaceis, circiter 10-13 ni'^i- longis; anthera oblonga 2-2.5 ^^^ 

 longa, in parte media afifixa; ovario 5-7 mm. longe stipitato; stylo 

 vix I mm. longo; fructibus (leguminibus) in racemo plerumque soli- 

 tariis, lineari-oblongis, circiter 5-6 cm. longis, 9-12 mm. latis, 2-2.5 

 cm. longe stipitatis, minute et densissime hispidulis, lateribus demum 

 glabrescentibus, apice acutis et basi styli persistente mucronatis. 



Type. — In dense woods north of Caleta Grande, "South Coast." 

 0. E. Jennings, No. 630. Now in the herbarium of the Carnegie 

 Museum. 



This species is most nearly related to Bauhinia divaricata Linnaeus, 

 but differs in that B. divaricata has the leaflets more or less acute 

 and not united for more than half their length. The color of the 

 petals in B. caribcea is apparently white, or very nearly so. 



289. Cassia Sophera Linnaeus. 

 Cassia Sophera LiNNiEus, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, i753. P- 379- 



Near Los Indios, November 4, 1912, G. A. Link. General Distri- 

 bution: Tropics of the Old World, Cuba, Isle of Pines, and rather 

 sparingly in other localities in the American tropics. 



290. Cassia alata Linnaeus. Talantala. 



Cassia alata Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, 1753, p. 378. 

 Herpetica alata Rafinesque, Sylva Telluriana, 1838, p. 123. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 18, 1903, and February 2, 1904, 

 A. H. Curtiss, No. 240; near Nueva Gerona, June 10, 1912, G. A. Link. 

 General Distribution: Probably indigenous to tropical America but 

 now widely spread through the tropics of both hemispheres. It 

 occurs in most of the West Indian islands. 



291. Cassia hispidula Vahl. 



Cassia hispidula Vahl, Eclogae Americana?, Ill, p. 10. 



Cassia hispida Colladon, Histoire Naturelle et MedicaledesCasses, 1816, p. 118. 



Near Nueva Gerona, December 26, 1903, A. IL Curliss, No. 255 



