PERKINS — THE LEGUMINOSAB OF POBTO BICO. L61 



Leaves; -'pal- l to 6.5 mm. Long; petals 6.5 to 1 1 nun. wide; Legume 17 to 30 em. Long, 

 0.6 i" I cm. wide. 



Near Coamo, in thickets between Serillos and Salinas and toward Bafioe and in 

 woods "ii Mount San Qdefonso; between Salinas and St. tsabel. Cuba, Jamaica, 

 Haiti, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent Grisebach . Margarita. Colombia, ' entral A.m< 



L2. Cassia diphylla L." 

 (Urban, : 



Annual, suffrutescent, glabrous, 0.33 to I meter high; Leaflets L.5 to 2.5 cm. Long, 

 0.8 i" L.25 cm. wide; Btipules Large, very acute, scarious; sepals 6.5 to L3 nun. Long; 

 petals shorter than the sepals; Legume 3 to 5 cm. Long, 6 nun. wide; seeds oblong, 

 oblique to the margins of the Legume. 



Near Bayamon, on declivities toward Toa Baja; near Santurce; near Bamaca 

 grass} declivities at Buenavista; Qear Salinas de Cabo Rojo, on the seashore and on 

 M<mnt Juliana; mar Rincon, in rocky places on the mountains; near Aguada, in fields 

 al Piedra Blanca; near Manati, around the Lagoon oi Tortuguero in Bandy distri< I 

 Campo. Cuba, Haiti. St. Kitts (Grisebach), St. Vincent. Tropical Ajmerica: from 

 Brazil to Central Ajnerica and Mexico. 



Cassia diphylla is easily recognized, as it is the only Porto Rican Cassia species with 

 but one pair of Leaflets. 



Local names, hediondilla, zarzabacoa. 



13. Cassia portoricensis Urb.& 

 (Urban, 275. 



Small Bhrub, 0.25 to 0.60 meters»high; Leaflets 8 to L5 mm. Long, 2 to 1 mm. wide; 

 st ipules lanceolate, acuminate; inflorescence 1 or 2-flowered; sepals Lanceolate or ovate- 

 Lanceolate, 6.5 to 8 mm. Long; petals obovate or orbicular-obovate, L2 to L5 mm. long, 

 Bhort-clawed; stamens 8. 



Cassia portoricensis callosa Uro. 



(Urban, 275. 



Leaflets on the margin callose-incrassate, glabrous or subpilose; inflorescence usually 

 2-flowered. 



Near Guayanilla, on calcareous mountains near Penon; near Mayaguez. 

 Local name, retama. 



Cassia portoricensis granulata Urb. 

 i Urban, 275. 



Shrnl) 0.3 to 1 meter high; Leaflets nol callose on the margin, pilose; inflorescence 

 L-flowered. 



Near Ponce, on the harbor; near Salinas de Cabo Rojo, in forests of the seashore; 

 near Guanica, in thicketson Mount El Maniel and in salty places on the seashore. 

 Indigenous. 



Local name, escobilla. 



This species is distinguished from the related Bpecies by it- Bubcoriaceous, oblique 

 Leaves. 



oCook and Collins, p. I L2, as ( hamaet ista diphylla. 

 bCookand Collins, p. L13, as Chamaecrista portoric* 



