Erithalis harrisii Urb.

Erithalis harrisii Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 514. 1908
A shrub or tree 4-7.5 meters high, the branches grayish, the branchlets slender, compressed, sparsely puberulent or glabrou.s, the internodes elongate; stipules short-connate, 2.5-3 mm. long, the lobes acutish; petioles slender or stout, 0.7-1.5 cm. long; leaf-blades obovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, 4-9 cm. long, 1.7-5.5 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, acute at the base or obtuse and short-decurrent, coriaceous, glabrous, green above, the costa subimpressed, the lateral nerves mostly obsolete, beneath slightly paler, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral nerves prominulous or obscure, 6 or 7 on each side, the margin more or less revolute; inflorescence cymose-paniculate, axillary or terminal, the peduncles 2-5 cm. long, the branches sordid-puberulent, the pedicels 2 mm. long or shorter, the bracts mostly 1-2 mm. long; calyx and hypanthium glabrate, the calyx 5-denticuIate; corolla white, 3-5 mm. long, glabrous, the 5 lobes linear, acutish, the tube nearly obsolete; anthers linear, 1.7-2 mm. long; fruit globose, 2-2.5 mm. in diameter, 6or 7-carpidiate.
Type locality: Near Troy, Jamaica, altitude 660 meters. Distribution: Mountains of Jamaica.

Erithalis harrisii is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica.