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cuneate at the base, sessile, green and with few inconspicuous 
veins or veinless above, whitish and veinless beneath, the margin 
strongly revolute; peduncles axillary, 4-5 mm. long, slender; 
calyx glabrous, broadly campanulate, 4- or 5-toothed; corolla 
“bluish”; blade of the standard rounded, obovate, retuse at the 
apex, 5 mm. broad; wings oblanceolate, with a small basal lobe; 
keel-petals oblanceolate, 1 cm. long; pod unknown. 
Cayo Guajaba, Camaguey (Shafer 658 and 2823). 
Notodon savannarum Britton & Wilson, sp. nov. 
A shrub 0.5~2.5 m. high, the branches stiff, the young shoots 
finely pubescent. Stipules minute; leaves 1.5 cm. long or less, 
evenly pinnate, short-petioled, glabrous, the rachis winged be- 
tween the 2-4 pairs of opposite, sessile leaflets and terminating 
in a short tip; leaflets coriaceous, obovate or oblong-obovate, 4-8 
mm. long, rounded at the apex, obtuse at the base, dark green and 
veinless above, nearly white and rather strongly pinnately few- 
veined beneath; stipels none; peduncles axillary, solitary, slender, 
glabrous, 5-8 mm. long; calyx glabrous, broadly campanulate, 
subtruncate and minutely 5-toothed, about 2 mm. long; corolla 
rose-purple, about 1 cm. long; pods (immature) 2.5-4 cm. long, 
3-4 mm. broad. 
Rocky soil, savannas near Camaguey (Britton & Cowell 
13149.) 
CANIZARESIA Britton, gen. nov. 
A shrub, with alternate, short-petioled, unevenly pinnate 
leaves, the small opposite leaflets coriaceous, the stipules obsolete,’ 
the flowers in short axillary racemes, the bracts early deciduous, 
the pedicels short. Calyx subcampanulate, its teeth short, obtuse, 
nearly equal, the two upper ones partly united. Standard 
broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, subtruncate at the base, short- 
clawed, unappendaged; wings oblong, long-clawed; keel long- 
clawed, arcuate, about as long as the wings, 2-lobed at the base. 
Stamens 10 (9 and 1); filaments filiform; anthers ovate, versatile. 
Ovary narrowly subcylindric, sessile, puberulent ; style nearly as 
long as the ovary, curved near the base; stigma small, sub-capi- 
tate. Legume short-stipitate, indehiscent, linear, with four nar- 
row subcoriaceous wings, more or less constricted between the 
nearly sessile ovate seeds. [In honor of Professor Felipe Garcia 
Cafiizares.]| A monotypic genus. 
Canizaresia cubensis (Urban) Britton, comb. nov. 
Piscidia cubensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 229. 1912. 
