Smooth Yellow Nicker

Guilandina culebrae Britton & Wilson, sp. nov
Unarmed throughout, the branches, leaf-rachis and inflorescence finely pubescent. Stipules minute or wanting; pinnules 7 pairs, approximate; leaflets 6 or 7 pairs, elliptic or the upper pair elliptic-obovate, subchartaceous, light green, glabrous, or minutely puberulent on the midvein beneath, inequilateral, the apex rounded or slightly emarginate, cuspidate, the base obliquely obtuse ; racemes long-peduncled, many-flowered, 6-9 cm. long; pedicels 3-5 mm. long, tomentulose; calyx tomentulose, 8 mm. long; petals about as long as the calyx-segments; legume obliqCiely oval, puberulent, unarmed, 7 cm. long, 4 cm. broad, the nearly horizontal more or less curved beak 1-2 cm. long; seeds orange-yellow, globose, 1.7 cm. in diameter, faintly horizontally striate.
Coast of Culebra Island, Porto Rico, March 3-12, 1908, Britton & Wheeler 79.

Perennial, Vines, twining, climbing, Woody throughout, Stems or branches arching, spreading or decumbent, Stems greater than 2 m tall, Climbing by tendrils, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Leaves alterna te, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Stipules setiform, subulate or acicular, Stipules deciduous, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves even pinnate, Leaves bipinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets alternate or subopposite, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Leaves hairy on one or both surfaces, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence axillary, Bracts very small, absent or caducous, Flowers actinomorphic or somewhat irregular, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Petals clawed, Petals orange or yellow, Banner petal ovoid or obovate, Banner petal suborbicular, broadly rounded, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Wing tips obtuse or rounded, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Stamens 9-10, Stamens completely free, separate, Stamens long exserted, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit oblong or ellips oidal, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit beaked, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit hairy, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.