Acrosynanthus trachyphyllus Standl.

Acrosynanthus trachyphyllus Standley, sp. nov
Branches stout, blackish, finely granular-papillose, with short internodes; stipule-sheath about 3 mm. long; petioles stout, 5-13 mm. long, papillose; leaf-blades oblong or lance-oblong. 5-9.5 cm. long, 1.6-3 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the base, obtuse or broadly obtuse at the apex, rigid-coriaceous, the lateral veins obsolete, dark-green on the upper surface, glabrous, lustrous, the costa impressed, paler and brownish beneath, rough, more or less scaberulous, especially on the salient costa, the margin revolute, scabrous-ciliate; inflorescence cymose, terminal, short-pedunculate, few-flowered, the pedicels 2-3 mm. long; hypanthium about 1.5 mm. long, papillose; calyx-lobes 5 or 6, oval, obtuse; corolla 5 mm. long, puberulent outside, the lobes oblongobovate, obtuse, as long as the tube, papillose within.
Type collected at Canete, Baracoa, Cuba, August, 1917, J. T. Roig 66 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).