Chloroleucon guantanamense Britton & Rose

Chloroleucon guantanamense (Britton) Britton & Rose
Pithecolobium (?) guantanamense Britton, Bull. Terr. Club 41; 7. 1914.
A tree, 10 m. high, with flexuous twigs, the foliage sparingly villous-pubescent. Leaves 6-8 cm. long; petioles slender, 1 cm. long or less; glands scutellate, 0.5 mm. in diameter; pinnae 2 pairs; leaflets 20 pairs or fewer, linear, chartaceous, 5-7 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide, inequilateral, pale green but somewhat darker above than beneath, acute at the apex, obliquely obtuse at the base, the few veins prominent beneath; flowers unknown; legume compressed, glabrous, chartaceous, dehiscent, doubly coiled, 6-8 cm. long, 7-8 mm. broad over the seeds, constricted between them, the coils about 2 cm. broad; immature seeds suborbicular, somewhat flattened, 4 mm. in greatest diameter.
Type locality: United States Naval Station, Guantanamo, Cuba. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Chloroleucon baracoense Britton & Rose, sp. nov
A shrub, 4 m. high, armed with stipular acicular spines 5-10 mm. long. Petioles 5-10 mm. long; pinnae 1 pair, short-stalked, 2-4 cm. long, with a sessile, minute cupulate gland between them; the rachis sparingly pubescent; leaflets 7-10 pairs, glabrous, chartaceous, strongly veined, 6-8 mm. long, the lower linear or linear-oblong, the upper oblanceolate or obovate; pedmicles slender, glabrous, 1-1.5 cm. long; heads several -flowered; flowers sessile, glabrous; calyx nearly tubular, 2.5 mm. long, its 5 teeth very short, subulate; corolla about 6 mm. long; stamens about 18, their tube exserted.
Rocky sea-shore, Caletico, southern Oriente, Cuba, July-August, 1924, Brother Leon 12379.