Chione venosa (Sw.) Urb.

Chione venosa (Sw.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 4: 594. 1911
Jacquinia venosa Sw. Prodr. 47. 1788.
Psychotria megalosperma Vahl, Eclog. 3: 3. 1807.
Chione glabra DC. Prodr. 4: 461. 1830.
Criisea glabra A. Rich. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. 5: 204. 1834.
Sacconia glabra Endl.; Walp. Rep. 2: 487. 1843.
A tree 5-15 meters high, glabrous throughout, the branches grayish or brownish, the branchlets stout, subcompressed, the internodes very short; stipules deltoid, 3-4 mm. long, acute or acuminate, caducous; petioles stout, 0.5-2 cm. long; leaf-blades narrowly oblong, lance-oblong, or elliptic-oblong, 5.5-14 cm. long, 1.8-4.5 cm. wide, usually acute or obscurely acuminate, acute or acutish at the base, coriaceous, lustrous, green above, the costa subimpressed, the lateral nerves plane or prominulous, paler beneath, the costa prominent, the lateral nerves prominulous, very slender, the margin usually revolute; inflorescence cymose-corymbose, many-flowered, the peduncles stout, 3-5.5 cm. long, the flowers partly sessile and partly pedicellate, the pedicels sometimes 12 mm. long, the bracts minute; hypanthium turbinate, 3-5 mm. long, the calyx about 1 mm. long, obscurely undulate; corolla white, 6-7 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, about half as long as the tube; anthers linear, 3 mm. long, longer than the filaments; fruit ovoid, angulate, black, 12-16 mm. long, 6-9 mm. thick, rounded at the base, truncate at the apex.
Type locality: West Indies.
Distribution: Porto Rico, Hispaniola, Lesser Antilles, and Tobago, usually in mountain forests or thickets.