Arcoa gonavensis Urb.

Arcoa gonavensis Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 6. 1923 A large tree, the twigs rather stout, bearing spur-like branchlels about 2 cm. long or shorter. Leaves 5-12 cm. long, the slender petiole and rachis puberulent, or glabrate; pinnae 5-11, subsessile; leaflets 9-22 pairs, subcoriaceous, dull, about 4-12 mm. long, 1-2.5 mm. wide, glabrate, sparingly pirmately veined, the apex rounded or obtuse, sometimes minutely mucronulate, the base obliquely rounded, the petiolule flat, orbicular; spikes 3-7 cm. long, many-flowered; bractlets suborbicular, about 1 mm. long; sepals orbicular-ovate, about 2 mm. wide; petals rounded or obtuse at apex, 4-6 mm. long; filaments about 3 mm. long; ovary densely tomentulose; legume 2-3 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. in diameter, rounded, densely toraentulose.
Type locality: Near Etroite, Gonave Island, Haiti. Distribution: Haiti and Gonave Island