172 CAESALPINIACEAE. 



1. Guilandina Crista (L.) Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 591. 1903. 



Caesalpinia Crista L. Sp. PL 380. 1753. 



Guilandina honducella L. Sp. PI. eel. 2, 545. 1762. 



Caesalpinia bonducella Fleming, Asiat. Eesearehes 11 : 159. 1810. 



A vine, up to 6 m. long, trailing or climbing, the twigs and leaves armed 

 witli hooked prickles, the twigs also more or less densely bristly. Stipules 

 usually foliaceous, thin, usually incised, persistent, sometimes 5 cm. broad; 

 leaves 3-8 dm. long, more or less pubescent; pinnae 4-8 pairs, short-stalked; 

 leaflets 4-8 pairs, oblong to ovate-oblong or elliptic, rather thin, 2.5-7 cm. long, 

 obtuse, retuse or short-acuminate and often mucronate at the apex, nearly 

 sessile, rounded or subcordate at the base; racemes axillary, pubescent, some- 

 times bristly, many-flowered, sometimes 3 dm. long; bracts linear-acuminate, 

 reflexed or spreading, 1-1.5 cm. long, deciduous; pedicels 1 cm. long or less; 

 calyx 7-9 mm. long; petals oblong-ovate, about 1 cm. long; pod 5-10 cm. long, 

 6 cm. wide or less, usually densely prickly; seeds gray, shining, obovoid-oval, 

 slightly compressed, 2-2.5 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. wide. 



Coastal thickets, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama 

 to Mariguana, Inagua, Grand Turk and the Anguilla Isles : — ^Bermuda ; Florida ; 

 West Indies ; coasts of continental tropical America and of the Old World tropics. 

 Gray Nickers. Brier. 



2. Guilandina Bonduc L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 545. 1762. 



Caesalpinia Bonduc Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 32. Hyponym. 1814. 

 Guilandina major Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 591, 1331. 1903. 



A trailing or climbing vine, armed with hooked prickles. Stipules none; 

 leaves often 6 dm. long, stout-petioled ; pinnae 3-6 pairs; leaflets 4-8 pairs, 

 ovate to elliptic-ovate, 4-8 cm. long, acute or short-acuminate at the apex, 

 rounded or obtuse at the base, subcoriaceous, somewhat shining above, glabrous 

 or very nearly so when old; racemes 3 dm. long or less, many-flowered; bracts 

 linear-lanceolate, erect, early deciduous; pedicels 4-8 mm. long; calyx about 

 6 mm., long; petals 1.5 cm. long or less; pod 6-12 cm. long, about one-half 

 longer than wide, rather loosely prickly; seeds bright yellow, 1.5-2.5 cm. long. 



Coastal thickets and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, and Rum 

 Cay : — Florida ; Cuba ; Jamaica ; East Indies. Large Yellow Nickers. 



3. Guilandina ovalifolia (Urban) Britton, Bull. X. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 118. 1905. 



Caesalpinia ovalifolia Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 273. 1900. 

 Caesalpinia lucida Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 275. 1900. 



Climbing, 4 m. long or longer, the young branches prickly, puberulent. 

 Leaves 2-3 dm. long, the rachis puberulent; leaflets 5-8 pairs, oval or elliptic, 

 glabrous or nearly so, shining, rounded at the apex, rounded to narrowed at the 

 base, their terminal mucro often 2 mm. long; racemes densely puberulent, 

 solitary or in pairs, 1.5-2 dm. long; bracts narrowly lanceolate, attenuate- 

 acuminate, 8 mm. long, soon spreading; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long; sepals oblong, 

 obtuse, densely tomentulose, 6-7 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, soon reflexed; 

 petals bright yellow, about as long as the sepals, oblong to oblong-spatulate, 

 obtuse; pod olDliquely obovate, 6-8 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, 2 cm. thick, shining, 

 armed with numerous rather distant yellow stifi! bristles 6 mm. long or less, its 

 sharp stout beak about 1 em. long; seeds globular, yellow-brown, shining, 1.6 cm. 

 in diameter. 



Coastal thickets, Great Sturrup Cay, New Providence, and Hog Island, Rose 

 Island, Eleuthera. Great Guana Cay, Long Island and Acklin"s Island : — Florida. 

 Small Yellow Nickers. 



We are unable to distinguish a difference between the two above species of 

 Prof. Urban in specimens gathered, after thorough search, in the type localities he 

 mentions which are only separated by the narrow harbor of Nassau. 



