Caesalpinia eriostachys Benth.

A small or moderate, unarmed tree of the Pacific slope, the branchlets usually stellate-pubescent. Leaves moderately large, twice-pinnate; petioles somewhat flat-tened above, up to 2 cm. long, ferruginous-stellate-pubescent and also with some lighter, simple hairs, eglandular; rachis 10-20 or more cm. long, similar to the petiole, usually bearing 11-21 pinnae; stipules oblong, about 6 mm. long, rounded at the apex, caducous; pinnae usually subopposite on the rachis, up to 8 cm. long; ultimate leaflets 14-29 to the pinna, alternate, more or less oblong, 5-10 mm. long and 3-5 mm. broad, strongly inequilateral basally, rounded apically, sessile, darker, and usually subglabrous above, pubescent with simple hairs or subglabrous below. Inflorescence terminal or subterminal, consisting of a number of several-flowered racemes, the peduncle and pedicels densely ferruginous-stellate-pubescent; bracts similar to stipules; mature pedicels 1-2 cm. long. Flowers yellow, ornamental, often appearing before the leaves; calyx-tube cupulate, 5-6 mm. long, densely ferruginous-stellate-pubescent; calyx-lobes ovate-elliptic, about 8 mm. long and 3-5 mm. broad, imbricate and outer one subcucullate in bud, ferruginous-stellate-pubescent without, light-tomentose within; petals suborbicular, up to 14 mm. long and 12 mm. broad, clawed, dark-dotted towards the middle, pubescent base-ward on the claw; stamens 10, free, inserted with petals on the calyx-tube; fila-