Pithecellobium discolor Britton

Jupunba discolor (Britton) Britton & Rose
Pilhecolobium discolor Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 41: 4. 1914.
A shrub 3 m. high, or a small tree up to 7 m. high, the young twigs and leaves densely puberulent, the old leaves glabrous or somewhat puberulent, 1-2 dm. long, the stout petioles 2 cm. long or less, the glands on the rachis between the pinnae orbicular, small. Pinnae 3 or 4 pairs; leaflets 4—6 pairs, obovate, chartaceous, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, dark green above, pale beneath, loosely reticulate-veined, obtuse or refuse, obliquely narrowed at the base; peduncles 5-11 cm. long; flowers short-racemose; pedicels puberulent, 4—6 mm. long; calyx narrowly campanulate, 4-5 mm. long, narrowed to the base, puberulent, its teeth ovate; corolla 7-8 mm. long, campanulate-funnelform, pubescent, its lobes oblong-ovate, ciliate; stamens 1.5-2 cm. long, the filaments united about one-fourth their length; legume coiled, 6-8 cm. long, 8-10 mm. wide, constricted between the seeds; seeds blue and white, shining, orbicular, 4 mm. broad.
Type locality: Batabano, Cuba.
Distribution: Central and western Cuba; Bahamas.