Caesalpinia glandulosa DC.

Poincianella glandulosa (Bertero) Britton & Rose
Caesalpinia glandulosa Bertero; DC. Prodr. 2: 482, 1825.
A shrub, 6-10 dm. high, the branches short-prickly. Piimae 3 pairs; leaflets 5 or 6 pairs, oval, 3-7 mm long, 1 -veined, glabrous, bearing a few black sessile glands on the margin; racemes few-flowered, densely puberulent; pedicels about 1 cm. long, jointed near the top; calyx densely puberulent, the segments 5-6 mm. long, bearing a few short-stipitate marginal glands; petals a little longer than the sepals; stamens short-exserted ; legume linear-oblong, 5 cm. long, 1.4 cm. wide, densely shortpubescent and sparingly short-stipitate-glandular.
Type locality: Santo Domingo. Distribution: Hispaniola.