Britton: STupDIES OF West INDIAN PLANTS 463 
long, 4~6 mm. broad; bracts ovate to orbicular-ovate, 4-5 mm. 
long, 3.5~-4 mm. broad, acute at the apex; lateral sepals included; 
keel toothed from the apex to below the middle; petals broadly 
obovate, 5 mm. long, 3.5-4 mm. broad. 
White sand, vicinity of Los Indios, Isle of Pines (Britton, 
Britton & Wilson 14215). 
Chamaecrista micrantha sp. nov. 
Stems several from a woody root, ascending or suberect, few- 
branched or simple, slender, villous, 2-3 dm. long, Stipules 
lanceolate acuminate, 2. —4 mm. long; leaves 8-18 mm. long; 
petiolar gland short-stalked; rachis villous; leaflets 10-24, oblong, 
villous, 3~-3.5 mm. long, mucronulate, the midvein very excentric; 
peduncles very slender, villous, 6-15 mm. long; sepals lanceolate, 
acute, villous, about 4 mm. long; petals rounded, 5 mm. long; 
pod linear, finely pubescent, 2-3 cm. long, 3-4 mm. wide. 
Pine-lands and savannas, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba. 
Type collected near San Pedro, Isle of Pines (Britton & Wilson 
14294). Referred by Grisebach to Cassia pygmaea DC., and taken 
up by Bentham under Cassia procumbens L., but the type of C. pro- 
cumbens is the same as C. nictitans L. : 
Chamaecrista savannarum sp. nov. 
Stems several from a deep woody root, slender, ascending or 
erect, short-pubescent, 2-4 dm. high, simple or little-branched. 
Stipules lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-4 mm. long, acuminate, 
strongly veined; leaves 2.5 cm. long or less, the rachis pubescent; 
petioles 2-4 mm. long, bearing a scutellate, sessile or very short- 
stalked gland; leaflets 3-13 pairs, appressed-pubescent or glabrate, 
oblong or linear-oblong, 3-7 mm. long, somewhat oblique, aristu- 
late, the midvein very excentric; peduncles slender or nearly fili- 
form, 8-20 mm. long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, slightly pu- 
bescent; 4—5 mm. long; petals 7-8 mm. long; pod linear, sparingly 
pubescent, 3-4 cm. long, 4 mm. wide. 
Savannas and pine-lands, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba. 
Type collected near Siguanea, Isle of Pines (Britton & Wilson 
14379). 
Bauhinia Jenningsii P. Wilson, sp. nov. 
A slender shrub or tree, sometimes 5 m. high; young twigs, 
branches of the inflorescence, under surface of the leaves and pods 
finely puberulent with minute, mostly appressed hairs; petioles 
