Ravenia spectabilis (Lindl.) Engl.

Ravenia spectabilis (Lindl.) Planch.; Griseb. Mem. Am Acad. II. 8 : 170. 1860.
Lemonia spectabilis Lindl. Bot. Reg. 26 : pi. 59. 1840.
A shrub with grayish or grayish-brown twigs ; bark of the older branches often corky more or less ridged and grooved ; petioles 0.5-2.5 cm. long ; leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; leaflets linear-oblong to elliptic, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 2-6.5 cm. long, 6-22 mm. broad, obtuse or somewhat acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, sessile or short-petioluled, glandular-punctate; inflorescence few-flowered ; sepals densely glandular, unequal, the two outer herbaceous, spreading, elliptic to oval or ovate, 12-15 mm. long, 8-10 mm. broad, the three inner appressed to the tube of the corolla, concave, oval or orbicular, not ciliate, 7-10 mm. long, 6.5-9.5 mm. broad, paler than theouter; corolla purplish-red or pinkish, densely glandular, the tube cylindric, 0.8-1.5 cm. long, the lobes oblong to oval, 1-2 cm. long, 5-13 mm. broad; seeds irregularly tetrahedral, 2.5-3.6 mm. long, 1.8-2.4 mm. broad, rounded on the back, tuberculate, brownish.
Type locality : Cuba.
Distribution: Cuba, Haiti, and Guadeloupe ; (Jamaica?).