Guettarda crispiflora subsp. cobanensis (Donn. Sm.) C. M. Taylor

Guettarda cobanensis Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 47: 255. 1909
Branchlets stout, obtusely trigonous, fulvous-pilose with long ascending hairs, the internodes short; stipules ovate, 1-1.5 cm. long, attenuate, thin, brown, fulvous-pilose near the base and along the costa; leaves ternate, the slender petioles 1.5-4.5 cm. long, long-pilose; leafblades elliptic or elliptic-ovate, 9-15 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide, acute or short-acuminate at base and apex, membranaceous, green above, short-pilose, especially along the nerves, the venation i:)rominent, paler beneath, appressed-pilose, the lateral nerves slender, prominent, about 1 1 on each side, parallel, arcuately ascending at an angle of 40-50 degrees, the ultimate veins numerous, transverse, inconspicuous, reticulate, the margin plane; peduncles 1.5-2 cm. long, stout, the cymes bifurcate, the branches 1-1.5 cm. long, 3-4-flowered, sparsely pilosulous, the fiowers sessile, 4or 5-parted, the bractlets minute; calyx and hypanthium 2 mm. long, puberulent, the calyx short, shallowly dentate; corolla-tube 22 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose outside, the lobes lacerate-crispate, one third as long as the tube; anthers 4 mm. long; style pilose, the stigma capitate; fruit acutely quadrangular, 9 mm. long, 5-7 mm. thick, 3-4-celled, the cells straight.
Type locality-: Mountain forests near Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, altitude 1500 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.