156 FLORA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 



C^SALPINACE^ 



Cassia Bahamensis Mill. ''Stinking pea." New Providence 

 Jan. (103). 



Cassia biflora L. Nassau, Jan. Leaflets strongly emarginate 



(55)- 



Cassia ligustrina L. Common. Nassau, Jan. ; Conch Sound, 



March (123, 422). Same as Wright 1190. 



Cassia mimosoides L. Nassau, Jan. Pods 2-2.5 cm. long, very 

 hairy (134). 



Cassia occidentalis L. Nassau, Jan. (105). 



Cassia polyadena DC. Nicol's Town, March. In the pines, 

 strict and unbranched, 7-9 cm. in height, not as pubescent as Wright 

 2376. 



Cassia villosa Mill. Nassau, Jan. Determined by Miss Anna 

 Murray Vail at Columbia herbarium (14). 



Cassia Caribaja sp. nov. 



Shrubby, 6-9 dm. in height, stem gray, smooth; leaves 2-3.5 cm. 

 long, with from two to four pairs of leaflets, mostly three ; petiole 2-5 

 mm. long, channeled ; a stipitate gland between the leaflets or slightly 

 below (often wanting between the lowest pair) ; leaflets sessile, eUip- 

 tical, 1.5-2 cm. long, about one-third as wide, unequal and oblique at 

 the base, apex mucronate, margin entire, thickish, glabrous, shining 

 above, resinous-dotted below ; veins numerous, parallel and prominent ; 

 stipules about 3 mm. in length, subulate, subspinescent, ribbed and 

 often with appressed white hairs on the margin, persistent; flowers 

 large, solitary, axillary; peduncle 2-3 cm. long; calyx deciduous: 

 sepals lanceolate, acuminate, about i cm. long, the three outer ones 

 keeled, keel pilose, petals yellow, oblanceolate or obovate, nearly 

 twice as long as the sepals and about i cm. in width ; stamens 10, the 

 three upper difform, anthers linear, puberulous along the furrow, 

 bursting at the top by two short clefts ; ovary about 5 mm. in length, 

 shorter than the flattened style and covered with appressed white 

 hairs; legume purplish brown, linear-oblong, 3-5.5 cm. long, 5-7 mm. 

 wide, bivalved, compressed, mucronate, with a few scattered hairs: 

 seeds about eight, oblong, compressed. 



Collected in the coppet at Fresh Creek, Andros, June 10, most 

 closely related to C. lineata Sw. (6^S). 



Plate 6. Cassia Caribcsa. Portions of plant, natural size; i, leaflet. 



