Chamaecrista glandulosa var. swartzii (Wikstr.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

Chamaecrista swartzii (Wikst.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 9
1917.
Cassia Swartzii Wikst. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1825: 430. 1826. Chamaecrista complexa Pollard, Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 2: 47. 1900.
Shrubby or suffrutescent, erect or ascending, 0.5-1.5 m. high, the slender branches more or less pubescent. Stipules triangular-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 4—8 mm. long; petiolar gland solitary (rarely 2), stalked, the stalk sometimes elongated; leaflets 13-25 pairs, linear, linear-oblong or the upper oblong-obovate, 8-12 mm. long, obtuse, cuspidate, thin, glabrous or sparingly pubescent; pedicels 1-3, mostly longer than the petioles; sepals 10-12 mm. long; I)etals about twice as long as the sepals, one of them much larger than the others; legume linear, loosely puberulent or glabrate, 4—6 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide.
Type uoc.m.ity: St. Bart's.
Distribution: Hispaniola (ace. to Urban); Porto Rico to Tortola, St. Bart's and Grenada.

Chamaecrista polyadena (DC.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 10
1917.
Cassia polyadena DC. M6m. Soc. Geneve 2-: 132. 1824.
Shrubby, 1-2 m. high, erect, usually branched, the branches glabrous or finely pubescent.
Stipules narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 5-9 mm. long; leaflets 6—20 pairs, oblong, or the upper
pairs oblong-obovate, subchartaceous, glabrous, pinnately many-veined, 10-lS mm. long,
the ape.x rounded or emarginate, mucronulate, the petiole bearing 1-4 orbicular, sessile or
short-stalked, obconic glands; pedicels solitary, or 2 or 3 together, i-2 cm. long. 2-bracteolate
above the middle; sepals lanceolate, glabrate, about 10 mm. long; petals 12-15 mm. long;
legume linear, sparingly appressed-pubescent, 2.5-4 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide.
Type locality: Guadeloupe.
Distribution: Guadeloupe; Dominica; Martinique; Barbados.