BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 9 
?Cassia stricta Schrank, Hort. Monac. 1: pl. 34. 1819. 
Chamaecrista virgata Greene, Pittonia 4: 31. 1899. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bot. Mag. pl. 3435; Schrank, loc. cit. 
Linnaeus included, in his citations of synonyms of this species, 
several others, but his description of it, together with his having 
received a Jamaica specimen from the collection of Patrick Browne, 
prior to his publication, as I am informed by Dr. B. Daydon 
Jackson, Secretary of the Linnaean Society of London, show that 
the name.is to be restricted to the Jamaica plant. Subsequent 
authors have confused it with species from other islands and from 
continental tropical America. The identity of Cassia virgata Sw. 
was established for me by Mr. William Fawcett at the British 
Museum of Natural History. Cassia stricta Schrank, from the 
illustration and the Jamaica habitat, appears referable here, but 
Schrank’s description of the plant is not altogether conclusive; 
he says the root is annual. 
18. Chamaecrista Dussii sp. nov. 
Perennial, villous-pubescent, erect, simple, 5-9 dm. high, some- 
what woody. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, strongly striate, 10- 
12 mm. long; leaves 5-7 cm. long; petiolar gland close to the 
lowest leaflets, scutelliform, sessile, slightly concave, nearly I mm. 
in diameter; leaflets about 17 pairs, linear, pubescent on both 
sides, 10-18 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, obtuse, mucronate, in- 
equilateral, the midvein excentric, the lateral veins few and 
distant; peduncles 4-6 mm. long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 
pubescent, about 7 mm. long; petals obovate, 8-10 mm. long; 
pod linear, slightly curved, villous-pubescent, obliquely short- 
tipped, 3 cm. long, 5 mm. wide. 
Guadeloupe and Martinique. Type from Trou-Vaillant, Par- 
nasse, Martinique (Pére Duss 1121). 
_ 19. Chamaecrista Swartzii (Wickstr.) 
Cassia Swartzii Wikstr. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 1825: 430. 1826. 
Chamaecrista complexa Pollard, Field Col. Mus. Bot. 2: 47. 1900. 
TYPE LOcALity: St. Bart’s. 
DIstRIBUTION: Porto Rico; Vieques; Culebra; St. Thomas; 
St. Jan; Tortola; St. Croix; Saba; St. Bart’s; St. Kitt’s; Dominica; 
Guadeloupe; Grenada. 
