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Chamaecrista glandulosa var. picardae (Urb.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

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Chamaecrista cahosiana (Urban) Britton
Cassia cahosiana Urban, Arkiv Bot. 22A*: 33. 1929.
A shrub, 1.5-2 m. high, the twigs pilose and short-pubescent. Stipules triangular-linear, acuminate, striate, 4-5 mm. long; petioles 3-5 mm. long; gland orbicular, long-stipitate; leaves 5-6 cm. long, the rachis sparingly pilose; leaflets 14-20 pairs, broadly linear, glabrous, chartaceous, 8-12 mm. long, strongly S-12-veined on each side of the midvein, the apex rounded and mucronate; flowers solitary, or 2 together; pedicels 12-15 mm. long, pilose, bracteolate above the middle; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 9-10 mm. long; petals 13-15 mm. long; legume broadly linear, sparingly pilose, 4-5 cm. long, 7-7.5 mm. wide.
Type i,oc.lity: Massif des Cahos, near Belladere. Haiti. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Chamaecrista selleana (Urban) Britton
Cassia selleana Urban. Repert. Sp. Nov. IS: 311. 1918.
A shrub, 2-2.7 m. high, the twigs densely villous. Stipules lanceolate-setaceous, 5-nerved, 4—7 mm. long. Petiolar gland sessile or subsessile, about 0.4 mm. in diameter; rachis villous; leaflets 12-15 pairs, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, mucronate, 6-9 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, pubescent, at least above, pinnately veined, the costa nearly central; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, villous, subulate-bracteolate above; sepals lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 7-10 mm. long, acute or acuminate, sparingly pubescent; larger petal about 14 mm. in diameter, the others obovate, 12-14 mm. long; ovary villous.
Type locality: Morne de la Selle, Haiti. Distribution: Haiti.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Chamaecrista pinetorum Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 7. 1917
Cassia pinetorum Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 15: 311. 1918. Cassia pinetorum Picardae Urban, loc. cit. 1918.
Shrubby, 4 dm. high, or higher, the branches slender, densely appressed-pubescent with brownish hairs. Stipules linear-lanceolate, striate, long-acuminate, 4-6 mm. long; leaves 3-5 cm. long, the rachis appressed-pubescent; leaflets 9 pairs or fewer, subcoriaceous, linear to linear-oblong, 10-15 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, glabrous on both sides, dull, acute and cuspidate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, closely pinnately veined, the prominent costa nearly central; petiolar gland slender-stalked; pedicels filiform, appressed-pubescent, 2-bracteolate, about 3 cm. long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 10-12 mm. long; petals obovate, somewhat shorter than the sepals or as long; ovary appressed-pubescent.
Type locality: Near Constanza, Santo Domingo. Distribution: Hispaniola.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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