Caesalpinia yucatanensis subsp. yucatanensis

Poincianella recordii Britton & Rose
Caesalpinia Recordii Britton & Rose. Tropical Woods 7: 6. 1926.
A shrub or small tree, the twigs, petioles, rachis and inflorescence pubescent. Pimiae 2-5
pairs; leaflets 2-6 pairs, oblong, obtuse, chartaceous, glabrous above, pale and softly pubescent
beneath, eglandular; racemes 2.5-3.5 dm. long, many-flowered; bracts ovate, acuminate,
pubescent, 4—6 mm. long, caducous; pedicels 15-20 ram. long, jointed near the middle; calyx
7-8 mm. long, densely puberulent, the lobes elliptic, obtuse, about 8 mm. long; petals about 10
mm. long, purplish with yellow margins, the outer ones covered with sessile glands; stamens
only a little longer than the petals, densely long-lanate below; ovary densely pubescent;
legume obliquely oblong, acute, sessile, finely pubescent, 6-10 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, both
margins outcurved.
Type locality : British Honduras. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Poincianella yucatanensis (Greenman) Britton & Rose
Caesalpiiiia yucalanetisis Greenman. Field Mus. Piibl. Bot. 2: 252. 1907.
A tree, 3-5 m. high, or shrubby, the young twigs puberulent. Petioles 2-6 cm. long; pinnae 4-7; leaflets 2-4 pairs, elliptic to oblong, 2-3.5 cm. long, roxmded at apex, reticulateveined, glabrous; racemes 5-15 cm. long, densely velutinous; pedicels 1.5-2 cm. long, jointed a short distance below the flower; calyx-lobes broadly oblong, about 8 mm. long, obtuse, velutinous; petals oblong to oblong-obovate, about 15 mm. long, clawed, glandular below; stamens about as long as the petals; legume oblong, somewhat curved, sessile, 6-12 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, short-pubescent and very short-stipitate-glandular.
Type locamty: Izamal, Yucatan. Distribution: Yucatan.