BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 459 
Leaves glandular, 8-10 cm. long; petiole and rachis grooved above, 
sparingly appressed-pubescent; petiole 1-2 cm. long; leaflets 
6-8 pairs, linear-lanceolate, chartaceous, 2-4 cm. long, acute and 
mucronate at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, rather 
dark green and glabrous above, pale green and sparingly pubescent 
beneath, the pubescent petiolules about 2 mm. long; flowers loosely 
corymbose; pedicels slender, puberulent, about 1 cm. long; sepals 
very unequal, sparingly pubescent, ciliate, the larger ones 4-5 mm. 
long; petals bright yellow, the larger 6-7 mm. long; perfect an- 
thers 7, about 3 mm. long; pod linear, glabrous, 3-4.5 cm. long, 
6-7 mm. wide, reticulate-veined, abruptly acute, septate between 
the seeds. 
Hillside, Berraco, near Daiquiri, Oriente (Britton & Cowell 
12664). 
Among West Indian species, perhaps most nearly related to C. 
domingensis Spreng. 
Cassia Shaferi Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Shrub 1 m. tall; twigs, petioles, rachis, and branches of the 
inflorescence hirsutulous. Leaves 6.5-10 cm. long, glandular, the 
gland slender, 1.5-2 mm. high, acutish or obtuse, situated either 
between the leaflets of the lowest pair or below on the petiole; 
petioles and rachis grooved; stipules narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 
6-7 mm. long, acuminate; leaflets 4-6 pairs, oblong to elliptic, 
1.5-3 cm. long, 7-12 mm. broad, rounded and mucronulate at the 
apex, rounded and very inequilateral at the base, sparingly hir- 
sutulous on the midrib above, hirsutulous beneath, the hairs 
scattered and mostly appressed, short-petioluled; margin thick- 
ened, ciliate; pedicels hirsutulous; buds subglobose; sepals densely 
hirsutulous; pod flat, 11 cm. long, 9 mm. broad; seeds 3.5-4.5 
mm. long. 
Pine-lands near the base of Loma Mensura, Oriente (Shafer 
3770); also collected in open places at base of Loma Mensura 
(Shafer 3803). 
Apparently closely related to Cassia bahamensis Mill. 
Pachyanthus reticulatus Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub 1-1.5 m. tall; young twigs compressed, more or less | 
grooved, ferruginous, stellately scabrous-puberulent. Leaves 
ovate, 9-12 cm. long, 5-7 cm. broad, obtuse at the apex, cordate 
at the base, above densely ferruginously stellate-puberulent when 
young, glabrescent, lustrous and dark green in age, the venation 
strongly impressed, below pale brown, reticulate-veined and 
