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Guilandina caymanensis

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Guilandina caymanensis (Milisp.) Britton & Rose
Caesalpinia caymanensis Millsp. Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 2: 49. 1900.
A shrub, about 2 m. high, the stem and branches unarmed, the branches white-hairy. Stipules (?); pinnae 6 pairs, the rachilla with a pair of recurved prickles at each leaflet; leaflets 7 pairs, elliptic, or ovate-oval, membranous, nearly equilateral, 2-3 cm. long, yellow-green, ciliate, pilose on the midvein beneath, the apex obtuse or acute, cuspidate, the oblique base rounded; legume oval, subtrunoatc, puberulent, unarmed, 7 cm. long, about 4 cm. wide, the straight erect beak abtut 1 cm. long; seeds gray, about 2 cm. long, horizontally striate.
Type locality: Near Georgetown. Grand Cayman Island. Distribution: Definitely known only from the type locality; Jamaica ?
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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