Harpalyce cubensis Griseb.

Harpalyce cubensis Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 71. 1866
A shrub, 2-3 m. high; branches when young ferruginous-puberulent and glandulargranuliferous, in age glabrate; stipules minute, caducous; leaves 5-9 cm. long; petioles about 1 cm. long, as well as the rachis ferruginous-puberulent; leaflets 9-17, coriaceous, oblong, 1-3 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, dark-green and glabrous above, densely yellowish and densely glandular-lepidote beneath, ferruginous-puberulent on the strong midrib, the lateral veins indistinct; racemes axillary, few-flowered, shorter than the leaves; calyx densely glandularlepidote; calyx-lips subequal, about 15 mm. long, lanceolate, acutish; petals dark-crimson, fleshy; banner erect, oblong-obovate, fully 1 cm. long, 4-5 mm. wide; wings oblanceolate, irregularly contorted, with a lobe on each side, nearly 1 cm. long; keel-petals oblanceolate, somewhat falcate, with a basal auricle on the upper side, the upper one-third adnate but often separating in age, 18-20 mm. long; staminal sheath straight, split on upper side; filaments free about one third their length; anthers lanceolate, acuminate; pod rhomboid in outline, 2-2.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, glabrous, 1-2-seeded.
Type locality: Western Cuba.
Distribution: Western Cuba.

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