Chamaecrista lineata var. brevipila (Urb.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

Chamaecrista arduinervis (Urban) Britton
Cassia arduinervis Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 15: 310. 1918.
Twigs short-pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, about 3 mm. long; petiole about 2 mm. long, bearing a small, sessile gland; leaflets 2 pairs, obovate or elliptic, coriaceous, shining, 6-10 ram. long, 2-4 mm. wide, the apex truncate or obtuse, pungently mucronate; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, short-pilose, subulate-bracteolate above; sepals lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long; petals obovate, 9-11 mm. long; legume linear, 3.5 cm. long, 3.7 mm. wide, short-pilose.
Type locality: Cuba.
Distribution: Bed of the Yateras River, Oriente, Cuba.

Chamaecrista hioramii Britton, sp. nov
Cassia arduinervis brevipila Urban, Symb. Ant. 9: 444. 1928.
A much-branched shrub, 3-5 dm. high, the slender twigs, the leaves, calyx and pedicels densely short-pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, strongly nerved, 2-3 mm. long; petiole short, bearing a short, stout gland, or glandless; leaflets 2 or 3 pairs (occasionally 1 pair), coriaceous, obliquely oblong-oblanceolate, or the upper pair obovate, strongly veined, acute or acutish, aristate, S-12 mm. long, the costa excentric; pedicels bracteolate above, about 1 cm. long; sepals acuminate, about 4 mm. long; petals a little longer than the sepals.
Southern Oriente, Cuba. Type from Boca del Guantanamo, June 23, 1921, Brother Hioram. 4S68.