Mimosa mornicola Urb.

Mimosa mornicola Urban, vSymb. Ant. 7: 228. 1912
An unarmed shrub, the young branches minutely white-puberulent. Stipules filiform, subulate, 3-9 mm. long; petioles 5-10 mm. long; pinnae 4—9 pairs; leaflets 5-7 pairs, the first pair reduced to minute subulate scales, the other oval or oblong, 4-6 mm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, rounded at apex, obliquely truncate or subcordate at base, glabrous, the midvein prominent beneath; flowers 4-5-parted, glabrate, in panicled, subcylindric heads 3-5 mm. long; calyx 1 ram. long, its short teeth triangular; corolla 1.8 mm. long, its triangular-ovate lobes nearly as long as the tube; stamens 4 or 5.
Type locality: Morne Bonp^re, Haiti. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.