BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEST INDIAN PLANTS & 
Petiolar gland stalked. 
Pod glabrous or nearly so. 32. C. pedicellaris, 
Pod short-pilose. 33. C. Buchit. 
I. CHAMAECRISTA DIPHYLLA (L.) Greene, Pittonia 4: 28. 1899 
Cassia diphylla L. Sp. Pl. 376. 1753. 
TYPE LOCALITY: “In India.” 
DISTRIBUTION: Provinces of Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio and 
on Isle of Pines, Cuba; Hispaniola; Porto Rico; recorded by 
Grisebach from St. Kitts and St. Vincent; continental tropical 
America. 
2. CHAMAECRISTA ROTUNDIFOLIA (Pers.) Greene, Pittonia 4: 31. 
. 1899 
Cassia rotundifolia Pers. Syn. 1: 456. 1805. 
Cassia bifoliata DC.; Collad. Cass. 120. 1816. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South America. 
DisTRIBUTION: Provinces of Santa Clara and Pinar del Rio 
and on Isle of Pines, Cuba; Jamaica; continental tropical 
America. 
ILLUSTRATION: Collad. Cass. pl. 9. 
3. CHAMAECRISTA PILOSA (L.) Greene, Pittonia 4: 28. 1899 
Cassia Millert Collad. Cass. 132. 1816. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica (Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 540). 
DISTRIBUTION: Province of Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, 
Cuba; Jamaica; northern South America. 
4. CHAMAECRISTA SERPENS (L.) Greene, Pittonia 4:29. 1899. 
Cassia serpens L. Syst. Ed. 10, 1018. 1759. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica (Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 541). 
DISTRIBUTION: Provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio, Cuba; 
Jamaica; northern South America. 
5. CHAMAECRISTA FLEXUOSA (L.) Greene, Pittonia 4: 27. 1899 
Cassia flexuosa L. Sp. Pl. 379. 1753- 
Chamaecrista amplistipulata Rose, Contr. Nat. Herb. 12: 267. 
1909. 
