Zygia latifolia (L.) Fawc. & Rendle

Zygia latifolia (L.) Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jam. 4=: 150. 1920
Mimosa latifolia L. Syst. ed. 10. 1310. 1759.
Zygia arborescens St.-Hil. Expos. Fam. Nat. 2: 246. 1805.
Inga latifolia Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1020. 1806.
Pithecolobium latifolium Benth. Lond. Journ. Bot. 3: 214. 1844.
Calliandra latifolia Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 225. I860.
Pithecollobium chagrense Pittier, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 465. 1922.
Feuilleea latifolia Kuntze. Rev. Gen. PI. 188. 1891.
A shrub or tree, 3-8 m. high, glabrous. Leaves often 2-3 dm. long; stipules 12 mm. long, more or less persistent ; glands borne on the petiole between the piimae and also between the leaflets; pinnae 1 pair; leaflets usually 5, sometimes only 3, the two upper ones opposite, the others usually alternate, elliptic to oblong, cuneate and somewhat oblique at base, acuminate, 7-15 cm. long, glabrous; flowers in small heads, these sessile or on short peduncles often arising from the old wood, purplish; calyx campaniflate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla tubular, 6-7 mm. long, striate, glabrous; stamens twice as long as the corolla, the tube exserted; legume slightly curved, 1-3 dm. long, 2-2.5 cm. broad, glabrous.
Type locality; Jamaica.
Distribution: Jamaica; Martinique; St. Vincent, Trinidad; Honduras to Colombia, Guiana, and Brazil.