Guilandina antiguensis

Guilandina antiguensis Britton & Rose, sp. nov
. vine or shrub, the branches, petioles and leaf-rachis and rachill js densely tomentulose and armed with short recured prickles. Stipules obsolete or wanting; pinnae 5-7 pairs, rather distant; leaflets 5-7 pairs, oblong to ovate-oblong, membranous, I. 5-3 cm. long, loosely pubescent on both sides, slightly inequilateral, the apex obtuse, or acutish, the base obliquely rounded; racemes 6-8 cm. long, many-flowered, toraenlose, on greatly elongated peduncles sometimes as long as the leaves; pedicels 3-5 mm. long; calyx about 8 mm. long; petals obovate; legume elliptic-orbicular, 6 cm. long, rounded at both ends, loosely short-prickly, puberulent, the beak nearly erect, about I cm. long; seeds globular, light brown, 1.5 cm. in diameter, faintly horizontally striate.
St. John, Antigua, February 1913, Rose, Fitch & Russell 3265.