66 BRITTON: CUBAN PLANTS NEw TO SCIENCE 
long, the branches puberulent; fruit (immature) subglobose, 9 
mm. in diameter. 
Type collected at Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, 
Oriente (Shafer 8248). 
Family CAESALPINIACEAE 
Cassia benitoensis Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
Shrub 1-3 m. tall; young twigs, petioles and rachis pubescent 
with short, stiff, incurved hairs. Leaves 5-9 cm. long, glandular, 
the gland slender, 2 mm. high, situated between the leaflets of 
the lowest pair; petioles and rachis narrowly grooved; stipules 
lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long, acuminate; leaflets 5-6 pairs, oblong- 
elliptic or elliptic, 1.5-2.4 cm. long, I-1.2 cm. broad, rounded 
and mucronulate at the apex, rounded and inequilateral at the 
base, the margins ciliate; pods flat, 14 cm. long, 8 mm. broad. 
Along rocky stream, vicinity of Camp San: Benito, Oriente 
(Shafer 4072). 
Caesalpinia subglauca Britton, sp. nov. 
An unarmed shrub, 2.5 m. high, the twigs glabrous. Leaves 
bipinnate ; petiole rather stout, I-1.5 cm. long; pinnae 5 or 7, the 
lower opposite or alternate, 5-10 cm. long, the rachis loosely 
pubescent; leaflets 9-15, sessile, coriaceous, glabrous, oblong- 
ovate to ovate-orbicular, 1-2.5 cm. long, 7-15 mm. wide, strongly 
reticulate-veined above, pale and subglaucous beneath, the apex 
rounded or emarginate, the base rounded or subcordate, oblique; 
fruiting pedicels stout, about 2 cm. long; pods flat, thin, puberu- 
lent, obliquely oblong, dehiscent, 3-5 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. 
wide, sharply beaked. 
Hillside thicket, near Santiago, Oriente (Britton & Cowell 
12596). 
Caesalpinia myabensis Britton, sp. nov. 
A shrub about 1.3 m. high, with slender gray branches, the 
young twigs densely short-pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, the 
petiole and rachis densely short-pubescent ; petiole I-1.5 cm. long ; 
pinnae 5-7, opposite, 3-5 cm. long; leaflets 7-17, sessile, coria- 
ceous, loosely pubescent, dark-green and shining above, pale, dull 
and pubescent on the midvein beneath, strongly pinnately veined, 
6-12 mm. long; inflorescence racemose; fruiting pedicels erect, 
slender, pubescent, 2-2.5 cm. long ; pods obliquely oblong, spread- 
ing, about 3 cm. long, I-1.3 cm. wide, subulate-tipped, puberulent. 
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