Harpalyce villosa Britton & Wilson

Harpalyce villosa Britton & Wilson; Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 16: 67. 1920.
A tree, 3-4 m. high; branches when young densely fenuginous-villous, in age more gray and grooved; leaves 6-7.5 cm. long; petiole 1-1.5 cm. long, as well as the rachis ferruginousvillous; leaflets 1 1-13, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 2-2.7 cm. long, 612 mm. wide, thick, coriaceous, rounded or retuse at each end, dark-green, glabrous or shiny above, densely ferruginousvillous when young beneath, but in age glabrate, conspicuously glandular-punctate and paler beneath, with a strong ferruginous midrib and indistinct lateral veins; calyx ferruginousvillous, 2.5 cm. long; lips subequal, acutish; banner obovate, about 1 cm. long and 7 mm. wide; wings obliquely obovate, 7 mm. long, with a small auricle on each side, that on the upper side near the base; keel-petals linear, slightly falcate, about 28 mm. long, with a rounded basal auricle en the upper side; pod oblong, 3.5-4 cm. long, 1-1.2 cm. wide, 5-7-seeded; seeds 5 mm. long, 4-4.5 mm broad.
Type locality: Among rocks along stream, vicinity of Camp San Benito, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Oriente, Cuba.