416 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



C. CRISTA L. '* Brasilete Colorado." 



A thorny shrub, 4 to 7 feet high, common in savannahs 

 and woods. Poor, dry, sandy or gravelly soil. Calicita R. 

 R., UK., July 17, '95. (313.) 



C. PAUCiFLORA Benth. and Hook. f. 



A slender, spiny shrub, 4 to 6 feet high, along rocky 

 shores, uncommon. Calicita, May 31, '95. (97.) 



Caesalpinia Cubensis Greenman, n. sp. 



*' A low spreading shrub or tree, 3 to 4 meters high : leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, bipinnate, unarmed ; pinnae 2 to 4 

 pairs; leaflets 6 to 8 pairs, oblique-oblong, obtuse or rounded 

 at the apex, obtuse at the unequal base, entire, puberulent 

 on both surfaces, at length glabrate, finely but not prom- 

 inently reticulate-veined beneath, 2 to 5 centimeters long, 

 nearly two-thirds as broad; the upper opposite, the lower 

 subalternate ; petiolules 2 to 4 millimeters long, sparingly 

 pubescent: racemes terminal, short pedunculate, 16 to 32 

 centimeters long, puberulent: flowers solitary or subfascicled, 

 pedicellate ; pedicels about 5 millimeters long, jointed above the 

 middle: calyx turbinate, ferruginous-pubescent, 5-parted; 

 the four inner divisions oblong, rounded at the apex, irregu- 

 larly glandular-ciliate, glandular-punctate, 4-^ millimeters long, 

 2 to 3 millimeters broad; the fifth and lower division of the 

 calyx elliptic-oblong, slightly narrowed at the base, con- 

 cave, about 7 millimeters long, glandular-punctate, and 

 with a glandular-pectinate margin: petals broadly spatulate, 

 entire, 6^ millimeters long: 2^ millimeters broad, flab- 

 ellate-nerved, glandular-punctate, rounded at the apex, nar- 

 rowed below into a short retrorsely pubescent claw, inserted 

 on the tube of the calyx ; the fifth and upper petal some- 

 what narrowed, thickened, recurved, and with more dense 

 retrorse pubescence. — Collected by Robert Combs in sandy 

 soil along the coast at Castillo de Jagua, Cuba, Oct. 16, 1895, 

 no. 571. The plant is nearly related to Caesalpinia tinctorial 

 Dombey, from which it is readily distinguished by the dis- 

 tinct petiolules, the venation of the leaflets, the more slender 

 inflorescence, and the character of the calyx." — Plate xxxii. 



