Anil Falso

Benthamantha caribaea (Jaeq.) Kuntze, Rev Gen. 3 3 : 53. 1898.
Galega caribaea Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. 212. 1763. Galega pubescens Lam. Encycl. 2: 597. 17S6. Tephrosia caribaea DC. Pro'dr. 2: 251. 1825.
Cracca caribaea Benth.; Benth. & Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1853: 9. 1S53. Tephrosia aniloides Bello, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 10: 258. 1SS1. Brittonamra caribaea Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 164. 1891. Briltonamra caribaea Grisebachiana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 165. 1891. Brittonamra caribaea Jacquiniana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 165. 1891. Cracca aniloides Cook & Collins, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 128. 1903.
A shrub,*5-15 dm. high; branches more or less strigose-canescent, in age glabrate and straw-colored; stipules setaceous, 4-10 mm. long; leaves 4-10 cm. long; rachis strigose or pilose; leaflets 1 1-25, elliptic, from rounded to acute at each end, cuspidate, 0.6-3 cm. long, silkystrigose on both sides, sometimes densely sericeous beneath; stipels 1 mm. long or less, subulate; racemes 4-6 cm. long, 1-6-flowered; bracts subulate, 3-5 mm. long; calyx silky-strigose, the tube 2.5 mm. long, the lobes lance-subulate, attenuate, 3 mm. long; corolla 10-12 mm. long, white, or the banner ochroleucous, often veined with purple, or wholly pink or purplish; pod 5-6 cm. long, 3 mm. wide, puberulent, 16-22-seeded; seeds subrectangular, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad.
Type locality: The Caribbeans.
Distribution: Hispaniola; Porto Rico; Lesser Antilles; Panama; also in northern South America.

Perennial, Shrubs, Stems woody below, or from woody crown or caudex, Taproot present, Nodules present, Stems erect or ascending, Stems less than 1 m tall, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs sparsely to densely hairy, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Stipules setiform, subulate or acicular, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Stipules spinose or bristles, Leaves compound, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets 5-9, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves hairy on one or both surfaces, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence axillary, Bracts very small, absent or caducous, Flowers zygomorphic, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx hairy, Petals separate, Corolla papilionaceous, Petals clawed, Petals white, Petals ochroleucous, cream colored, Petals pinkish to rose, Petals red, Petals orange or yellow, Banner petal suborbicular, broadly rounded, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Stamens 9-10, Stamens diadelphous, 9 united, 1 free, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Reduced cleistogamous flowers produced, Fruit a legume, Fruit stipitate, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit elongate, straight, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit internally septate between the seeds, Fruit compressed between seeds, Fruit glabrous or glabrate, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seeds subquadrate, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.