Ixora floribunda (A. Rich.) Griseb.

Ixora floribunda (A. Rich.) Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 134. 1866
Siderodendron floribiindum A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 24. 1850.
A shrub or tree 3-9 meters high, the branches brown or grayish, the branchlets stout, compressed, glabrous, with short internodes; stipules 6-9 mm. long, triangularacuminate, deciduous, densely white-sericeous within, those at the base of the inflorescence larger and broader, thin, brown; petioles stout, 1-2.5 cm. long; leaf-blades elliptic, elliptic-obovate, elliptic-oval, or narrowly elliptic-oblong, 1 1-26 cm. long, 4-1 1 cm. wide, acute or short-acuminate, attenuate to acutish at the base, chartaceous, glabrous, subconcolorous, somewhat lustrous above, the costa impressed toward the base, the lateral nerves and veins prominulous, the costa and lateral nerves very prominent beneath, the latter about 1 1 on each side, the veins prominulous-reticulate, the margin plane; inflorescence terminal, cymose-paniculate, short-pedunculate or sessile, many-flowered, 4-10 cm. broad, the branches densely pilose or villosulous, the flowers sessile or short-pedicellate, the bracts and bractlets very small ; calyx and hypanthium 2 mm. long, short-pilose, the calyx as long as the hypanthium, shallowly lobate, the lobes acute or obtuse; corolla white, glabrous, 6-10 mm. long, the tube slender, aihpliate above, the lobes oblong, obtuse, equaling or slightly longer than the tube; anthers 1.5-2 mm. long; fruit globose, short-pilose, 4 mm. long or larger.
Type locality: Near Guanimar, Cuba.
Distribution: In forest, Cuba and the Isle of Pines; Salvador and Nicaragua; also in northwestern Colombia.