Exostema brachycarpum (Sw.) Schult.

Exostema brachycarpum (Sw.) R. & S. Syst. Veg. 5: 19
1819.
Cinchona brachycarpa Sw. Prodr. 41. 1788.
Tree, sometimes 12 meters high, glabrous throughout, the branches stout, grayish, the internodes short or elongate; stipules ovate-deltoid, 8-10 mm. long, obtuse or acutish; petioles stout, 0.5-1.2 cm. long; leaf-blades oval, ovate-oval, or oblong, 7-15 cm. long, 3.5-8 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, obtuse or acute at the apex, sometimes broadly shortacuminate, the venation plane above, prominent beneath; inflorescence terminal, cymosecorymbose, fewor many-flowered, the pedicels stout, longer than the calyx; hypanthium 4-5 mm. long; calyx-lobes 5, minute, deltoid, acute; corolla pale-red, glabrous, the tube slender, 2.5-5 cm. long, the 5 lobes linear, half as long as the tube; anthers 10-12 mm. long; capsule oval, 1.5 cm. long, coarsely 10-costate.
Type locality: Jamaica. Distribution: Mountains of Jamaica.