Harpalyce rupicola Donn. Sm.

Harpalyce rupicola Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 13: 26. 1888
A shrub; branches ferruginous-pubescent; leaves 10-12 cm. long; petiole 1-2 cm. long, as well as the rachis ferruginous-pubescent; leaflets 1 1-15, oblong, retuse at the apex, rounded at the base, 2-2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, puberulent above, with golden glands beneath, soon glabrate, with re volute margins; racemes or panicles 12-18-flowered, ferruginous; calyx about 1 cm. long, tomentose; petals purple; banner IS mm. long, 14 mm. wide, round-obovate, longer than the other petals; wings oblanceolate, 5 mm. wide; keel-petals somewhat shorter; anthers plternately larger and smaller; ovary linear, 6-7-ovuled.
Type locality: Santa Rosa, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala.
Distribution:Known only from the type locality.