Guettarda punctata Urb. & Ekman

Guettarda punctata Urban & Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. ZZA^'^:
87. 1929.
A shrub or small tree, the young branchlets clothed with rather long, erect or erectspreading, whitish hairs, the older branches glabrate, with short or long internodes; stipules triangular, subobtuse, rufous, membranaceous, appressed-pilose, 4 mm. long, deciduous; petioles 4-9 mm. long, pubescent like the branchlets; leaf-blades ovate, oval, or oval-elliptic, 2-5.5 cm. long, 1.5-3.2 cm. wide, very obtuse or rounded at the apex, rounded or usually truncate at the base, pergamentaceous, green above, sparsely pilose, elevate-punctate, the venation prominulous, beneath pilose on the nerves with rather long hairs, minutely and densely pilosulous between them, the lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, prominent, ascending at an angle of 30-40 degrees, the veins prominent and reticulate ; flowers and fruit unknown.
Type locality: Calcareous hills, Jacquet, near Ganthier, Plaine Cul-de-Sac, Haiti, altitude 200 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.