Guettarda macrocarpa Griseb.

Guettarda macrocarpa Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 507
1862.
MaUhiola macrocarpa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 288. 1891.
A shrub or tree, the branchlets stout, densely fulvousor ferruginous-pilose, with short internodes; stipules ovate or ovate-oblong, 1.2-2.5 cm. long, sometimes exceeding the petioles, densely appressed-pilose with fulvous hairs, deciduous; petioles rather slender, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, densely long-pilose; leaf -blades ovate to ovate-oval or oblong-ovate, 4—12.5 cm. long, 2-8.5 cm. wide, obtuse or subacute, cordate or truncate at the base, green on the upper surface, with impressed venation, copiously long-pilose at first, becoming glabrate, subcoriaceous, densely pilose beneath with long fulvous hairs, the lateral nerves prominent, 9-11 on each side, ascending at a very acute angle, the margin plane; cymes few-flowered, sessile, the bractlets elliptic, ferruginous-tomentose, longer than the calyx; calyx and hypanthium tomentose, the calyx 4-lobate; corolla-tube 3-3.5 cm. long, retrorse-pilose, the 6 lobes oblong, 10-13 mm. long, puberulent within; fruit ovoid, 2.5-3 cm. long, 6-celled.
Type locality: Cliffs near Monte Verde, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Dry slopes, Oriente, Cuba.