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.