Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 131 



299. Guilandina crista (Linnaeus) Small. 



Casalpinia crista Linn^us, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, 1753, p. 380, not of Ed. 



II. p. 544. 

 Guilandina Bonduc LiNN^us, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. I, 1753, p. 381. 

 Guilandina Bonducella Linn^us, Species Plantarum, I, Ed. II, 1762, p. 545. 

 Cccsalpinia Bonducella Fleming, Asiatic Researches, Calcutta, XI, 1810, p. 159. 

 Guilandina Bonduc var. minus DeCandolle, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis 



Regni Vegetabilis, II, 1825, p. 480. 

 Guilandina crista Small, Flora of the Southeastern U. S., 1903, p. 591. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 30, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 472. "Cres- 

 cit in locis maritimis insulae Pinorum." 1831, A. H. Lanier, A. 

 Richard, in Sagra, "Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de 

 Cuba," X, 1845, p. 217. Richard's statement that the species grows 

 in maritime situations on the Isle of Pines is probably true to the 

 extent that the plant grows mainly on gravelly or sandy lands and it 

 happens that these, in the Isle of Pines, are mainly near the sea. 

 General Distribution: Widely distributed in the tropics, and extending 

 north in North America to Bermuda and southern Florida. 



Family FABACE^. 



{PAPILIONACEM.) 



Key to the Species Enumerated. 



Annual herbs with glandular hairs and sharply serrate leaflets. 



317. Cicer arietinutn. 

 Leaflets not sharply serrate. 



Leaflets five or more to a leaf. 

 Fair-sized shrubs or trees. 



Leaflets retuse at apex; flowers purplish, in large branching panicles. 



316. Vouacapoua retusa. 

 Leaflets with apex acuminate, not retuse. 



Leaflets with about 10-12 main veins each side of mid-rib; pods 



with 4 wings 315. Piscidia piscipula. 



Leaflets with less than 10 main veins each side of mid-rib; pods not 

 winged. 

 Pods somewhat woody, 10-20 cm. long; leaflets about 9-17 in 



number 304. Gliricidia sepium. 



Pods thin, 1-2-seeded, 5-7.5 cm. long; leaflets about 5-11 in 



number 314. Lonchocarpus latifolius. 



Herbs or low herbaceous shrubs. 



Leaflets 5 (or 3), up to 2 cm. long 302. Indigofera lespedezioides. 



Leaflets more numerous and shorter. 



Leaflets hairy, 5-10 mm. long; pods not constricted. 



305. Cracca cinerea. 



