Poitea dubia (Poir.) Lavin

Corynella dubia (Poir.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 1 : 322. 1899
Robinia dubia Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 6: 227. 1804.
Robinia polvanlha Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1260. 1806.
Robinia marlinicensis Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 312. 1S07.
Tephrosia moschata Tussac, Fl. Ant. 2: 23. 1818.
Sabinea dubia DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. 4: 92. 1825.
Corynella polyantha DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. 4: 93. 1S25.
Corvnites polyantha Spreng. Svst. 4 2 : 280. 1827.
Toxytropis Jaegeri Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 19 2 : 507. 1846.
Corynites Jaegeri Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 173. 1891.
A small shrub, 1-3 in. high; branches densely pilose when young; stipules subulate, spinescent, 3-6 mm. long; leaves 4—6 cm. long; rachis pilose, slightly sulcate above; leaflets 10-14, obovate, rounded and mucronate at the apex, acute at the base, at first puberulent but soon glabrous above, appressed silky-pilose beneath, the petiolules less than 1 mm. long; bracts subulate, 1-2 mm. long; pedicels about 5 mm. long; calyx densely brown-pilose, the tube 2 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, the teeth lance-subulate, 2 mm. long; corolla purple; banner about 8 mm. long and broad, short-clawed, the blade broadly ovate, acutish; wings of about the same length, the blades narrowly lanceolate, with a rather large basal auricle, the claws curved, 1.5 mm. long, acute; keel-petal lunate, 12 mm. long, the blade united to the tip, acuminate, with a small basal auricle, the claws 2 mm. long; style hooked and strongly dilated at the apex; pod 4-5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide, glabrous, 12-16-seeded, linear, slightly stipitate; seeds suborbicular, lenticular, almost black, shining, 4 mm. broad.
Type locality: "Martinique." but probably erroneous. Distribution: Hispaniola.