Abarema alexandri var. troyana (Urb.) Barneby & J. W. Grimes

Jupunba troyana (Urban) Britton & Rose
Pilhecolobium AUxandri troyanum Urban, Symb. Ant. S; 359. 1908.
A tree up to 15 m. high, the young twigs, petioles, leaf-rachis and peduncles glabrous or puberulent. Pinnae 1-3 pairs, with a rather large orbicular cupulate gland between each pair; leaflets 3-6 pairs, ovate to obovate or elliptic, submembranous, 3-5 cm. long, obtuse, reticulate-veined, mostly with a small orbicular gland between each pair; peduncles slender, glabrous or puberulent, 2-4 cm. long; racemes 4-8 cm. long; pedicels only about 1 mm. long; calyx narrowly turbinate, glabrate, 2-2.5 mm. long; corolla 5-6 mm. long, its lobes puberulent; stamen-tube included; legume circinate, 5-S cm. long, about 12 mm. wide, its margins sinuate; seeds blue and white, obovoid, about 7 mm. long.
Type locality: Near Troy, Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica.

Abarema alexandri var. troyana is a variety of the legume A. alexandri in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica, where it can be found in woodland or thicket on limestone soils.