Guettarda nannocarpa Urb. & Ekman

Guettarda nannocarpa Urban & Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. 22A'**:
91. 1929.
A densely branched shrub 1.5 meters high, the older branches terete, glabrous, gray or blackish, with short internodes; leaves minute, subsessile on short lateral branches, ovate, narrowly ovate, or ovate-oblong, 2-4 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex, rarely acutish, at the base rounded, subtruncate, or rarely emarginate, the costa usually impressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral nerves 2 or 3 on each side, inconspicuous or obsolete, lustrous above, sparsely and minutely pilosulous, sericeous beneath, coriaceous; fruits sessile, solitary, globose, very obtusely quadrangular, 2-2.7 mm. in diameter, 4-celled, tomentulose, the persistent calyx-limb truncate, 1 mm. long.
Type locality: In calcareous soil, Anse-^-Chat, Barahona, Santo Domingo. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.