Pithecellobium peckii S. F. Blake

Pithecellobium Peckii Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 52: 71. 1917
A small tree, the twigs and leaves glabrous or somewhat puberulent. Stipular spines 2-3 mm. long; petioles about 2 cm. long; pinnae 2 or 3 pairs; rachis bearing a clavate gland; leaflets 5-11 pairs, subsessile, oval or oblong, 1-2.6 cm. long, the apex truncate, rounded or retuse, mucronulate, both surfaces reticulateveined; spikes axillary in 3's, oblong, 2.3-3.5 cm. long, sessile, the rachis puberulent; bractlets deltoid, 0.8 mm. long, persistent; flowers sessile; calyx turbinate-subhemispheric, 1.2 mm. long; sparsely strigillose; corolla yellow, 6.5 mm. long, the tube glabrous, the teeth strigillose; stamen-tube about 1.5 mm. long; ovary stipitate, densely puberulent; legume circinnate, about 1.2 cm. long, glabrous, subligneous, 1.2-1.7 cm. wide; seeds brown-black. *
Type locality: British Honduras. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.