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Guettarda krugii Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 431. 1899
A shrub or tree, sometimes 10 meters high, the branches stout, gray or reddish-brown, sparsely and minutely lenticellate, the branchlets compressed, fulvousor ferruginous-tomentose or pilose, the internodes short or elongate; stipules ovate to oblong, 0.7-2 cm. long, acuminate, long-pilose outside, sericeous within, sometimes subpersistent ; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 0.5-1.5 cm. long, tomentose, the blades oblong-ovate, oval, broadly ovate-oval, obovateoval, or rounded-oval, 5-12 cm. long, 2.5-8 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded at the apex, cordate to rounded at the base, often very short-acuminate, coriaceous, yellowish-green above, long-pilose when young but soon glabrate, the costa and lateral nerves prominulous above but often embedded, the intermediate veins subimpressed, closely reticulate, beneath paler, tomentulose when young, the tomentum sparse in age, the venation prominent, the lateral nerves 6-9 on each side, the lowest often divaricate, the others ascending at an angle of about 50 degrees, straight or subarcuate, the intermediate veins closely parallel and reticulate, the margin plane or recurved; cymes dense, 3-5-flowered, the peduncles up to 3 cm. long in fruit but often very ' short at anthesis, the flowers sessile, the bractlets lanceolate or filiform, as long as the buds; calyx and hypanthum densely fulvous-tomentulose, the calyx calyptriform, usually circumscissile and caducous, the lower part sometimes persistent; corolla-tube 1-1.4 cm. long, densely antrorse-pilose outside with short appressed hairs, the lobes 6 or 7, oblong, obtuse, one third to one half as long as the tube; fruit globose, 9-1 1 mm. in diameter, minutely tomentulose, 3-4celled.
Type locality; Near Guanica, Porto Rico. Distribution: Bahamas and Porto Rico.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1934. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Guettarda inaguensis Britton & Milisp. Bahama Fl. 413. 1920
A tree 3-4 meters high, the stout branches gray or reddish-brown, the branchlets densely leafy at the ends; stipules oval, 5-8 mm. long, brown, deciduous, tomentulose and pilose; petioles stout, 5-7 mm. long, densely fulvous-tomentulose and long-pilose ; leaf -blades oblong or broadly oval-oblong, 2.5-4.5 cm. long, 1.3-3.2 cm. wide, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, subcordate at the base, green above, puberulent on the veins, sparsely pilose, the venation impressed, pale beneath, densely and closely grayish-tomentulose, sparsely appressed-pilose on the nerves, the lateral nerves slender, prominulous, about 8 on each side, the veins evidently reticulate but not elevated, the margin plane or subrevolute; peduncles 1-2.5 mm. long, 1flowered, axillary; calyx and hypanthium 4 mm. long, fulvous-tomentulose, the calyx spathaceous; corolla 3 cm. long, the slender tube densely retrorse-pilose with short whitish hairs, the lobes oblong, 4 mm. long; fruit globose, 8-10 mm. in diameter, minutely tomentulose, 6-celled.
Type locality: Matthew Town, Inagua, Bahamas. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1934. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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