Guettarda polytheca Urb. & Ekman

Guettarda polytheca Urban & Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. 20A^:
57. 1926.
A small tree, the branches terete, glabrate, the internodes 1-3 cm. long, the branchlets leafy at the apex, when young pilose with short subappressed hairs; stipules triangular-lanceolate, 4-10 mm. long, deciduous, pilose dorsally; petioles 2-5 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong or narrowly oblong, 2-8 cm. long, 0.5-3 cm. wide, obtuse, rounded to subcordate at the base, or merely obtuse, coriaceous, pale above, appressed-pilose or glabrate, whitish-punctate, paler beneath, appressed-pilose along the nerves and densely short-pilose between them, the lateral nerves prominent, 4-7 on each side, ascending at a very acute angle, the margin plane or subrevolute; fruits axillary, solitary, sessile or on peduncles as much as 3 mm. long, globose, obscurely cestate, densely and minutely fulvous-tomentose, 12-17 mm. long, 10-15 mm. wide, with 17 or fewer cells.
Type locality: Montagnes du Trou d'Eau, Morne 4 Cabrits, in open semiarid forest near Bois d'Orme, Haiti, on the summit of a calcareous mountain, altitude 500 meters.
Distribution: Mountains of Haiti.