4 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
PITHECOLOBIUM GUADALUPENSE Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 116. 
1860 
ad 
Cays of Camagiiey; Bahamas; Florida Keys. 
PITHECOLOBIUM BAHAMENSE Northrop, Mem. Torrey Club 
I2: 38. 1909 
sg 
Cays of Camagiiey; Bahamas. 
5. PITHECOLOBIUM HystTRIx (A. Rich.) Benth. in Hook. Icon. Pl. 
pl. 1168. 1876 
Inga Hystrix A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 1: 471. 1845. 
Pithecolobium calliandrifolium C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 
83. 1866. 
Coastal thickets and hillsides: Camagiiey, Santa Clara, 
Havana, Pinar del Rio; Bahamas. 
6. P.thecolobium savannarum sp. nov. 
A tree up to 7 m. high, with smooth bark, the foliage finely 
and densely puberulent when young, glabrous or sparingly 
puberulent when old. Leaves 1.5-2 dm. long, the rather stout 
petioles 1-2.5 cm. long, the glands somewhat elevated; pinnae about 
4 pairs, the petiolules slender, 2 cm. long or less; leaflets 4-6 pairs, 
obliquely obovate, 1.5—3 cm. long, chartaceous, loosely reticulate- 
veined, deep green and somewhat shining above, pale and dull 
beneath, obtuse or retuse at the apex, acute at the base; peduncles 
axillary, slender, striate, glabrous, 7~9 cm. long; flowers short- 
racemose, white; pedicels slender, glabrous, 3-6 mm. long; calyx 
3-4 mm. long, subtruncate at the base, campanulate, its teeth 
acute, ovate, often somewhat unequal; corolla funnelform, ap- 
:pressed-pubescent, 8 mm. long, its lobes ovate-oblong; stamens 
I5 mm, long, united about one-third their length; ovary and 
young pod densely pubescent; old pods 8-10 cm. long, the valves 
doubly coiled after dehiscence, moniliform, 4-6 mm. wide across 
the seed cavities, 2 mm. wide between them; seed cavities oblong, 
8-10 mm. long. 
Along a water course on barren savannas southeast of Holguin, 
Oriente, April 7, 1909 (Shafer 1194). 
7. Pithecolobium discolor sp. nov. 
A shrub 3 m. high, or a small tree up to 7 m. high, the young 
twigs and leaves densely puberulent, the old leaves glabrous or 
