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Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Steud. Nom. Bot ed. 2. 1: 688. 1841.
Robinia sepium Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 28. 1760. Robinia hispida L. Mant. 101, in part. 1767. Lonchocarpus sepium DC. Prodr. 2: 260. 1825. Robinia variegata Schlecht. Linnaea 12: 301. 1838.
Tree, 3-10 m. high; branches puberulent especially when young; stipules ovate or lanceolate. 2 mm. long, deciduous; leaves 1-2 dm. long: rachis puberulent, sulcate; leaflets 7-15, elliptic or oval, 3-7 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, acute at the base, bluntly acuminate or acute at the apex, short-silky on both sides when young, glabrate in age; racemes 5-10 cm. long, often 2 or 3 from the same axil, many-flowered; bracts ovate, 1 mm. long, deciduous; pedicels about 5 mm long, articulate below the flower; calyx-tube proper 4 mm. long, and as wide, with a stipe-like base 2 mm. long; corolla pink, usually with a yellow or white spot on the banner or wholly white, 15-20 mm. long, the keel slightly shorter than the banner and wings; pod 1015 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, glabrous, short-stipitate; seeds lenticular, about 1 cm. high, darkbrown.
Type locality: West Indies. . ..„,..,,
Distribution: West Indies, southern Mexico, and Central America; also in Colombia, Venezuela, and Guiana.

Gliricidia lambii Fernald, Bot. Gaz. 20: 533. 1895
A tree, 5-8 m.high; branches minutely puberulent; leaves 1.5-2 dm. long;leaflets mostly 7, ovate-oblong, 5-7 cm. long, tapering to an obtuse tip, glabrous on both sides or puberulentsilky beneath; rachis appressed-silky ; racemes clustered, 5-10 cm. long, appressed-pubescent; pedicels about 12 mm. long; bracts suborbicular, fuscous-pubescent; calyx appressed-silky. 7mm. long, 10 mm. broad; corolla pale-blue, fading in age; banner yellow at the base, suborbicular, 2.5 cm. long; wings 22 mm. long, broadly oblanceolate, semi-hastate at the base; keel 2 cm. long, 5 mm. wide.
Type locality: Rosario, Sinaloa. Distribution: Sinaloa and Tepic.