8 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
13. Chamaecrista Tuerckheimii sp. nov. 
Shrubby, with a deep woody root; stems slender, villous- 
pubescent, 8-10 cm. long. Stipules obliquely ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, striate, 2-3 mm. long; leaves 2—2.5 cm. long, the 
rachis villous-pubescent; leaflets 6 or 7 pairs, linear-oblong, to 
oblong-oblanceolate, 6-8 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide, ciliate, 
shining, rounded or subtruncate and mucronulate at the apex, 
obliquely rounded at the base, pinnately veined with the promi- 
nent midvein somewhat excentric, the petiolar gland short- 
stalked; peduncles slender, villous, about 2 cm. long; sepals 
lanceolate, acuminate, villous, 7-8 mm. long; Setale obovate, 
about twice as long as the sepals; legume Tasat, narrowed at both 
ends, nearly glabrous, 1.8 cm. lon 
Near Maniel de Ocoa, Santo Domingo, in fields, 300 m. alt. 
(Tuerckheim 368c). 
14. Chamaecrista caribaea (Northrop) 
Cassia caribaea Northrop, Mem. Torrey Club 12: 39. 1902. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Fresh Creek, Andros, Bahamas. 
DISTRIBUTION: Andros, New Providence and Cat Island, 
Bahamas. 
ILLUSTRATION: Northrop, loc. cit. pl. 6. 
15. Chamaecrista inaguensis comb. nov. 
Cassia inaguensis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 443. 1905. 
TYPE LocALITy: Inagua, Bahamas. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Inagua, South Caicos, Grand Turk, and 
Ambergris Cay, Bahamas. 
16. Chamaecrista lucayana comb. nov. 
Cassia lucayana Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 138. 1906. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cay north of Wide Opening, Exuma Chain, 
Bahamas. 
DISTRIBUTION: Great Bahama, Cat Island, Conception, Rum 
Cay, and Exuma Chain, Bahamas. 
17. CHAMAECRISTA GLANDULOSA (L.) Greene, Pittonia 4: 28. 1899 
Cassia glandulosa L. Syst. Ed. 10, 1017. 1759. 
Cassta virgata Sw. Prodr. 66. 1788. 
