Guettarda lindeniana A. Rich.

Guettarda lindeniana A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 20
1850.
A shrub or small tree, the branches rather slender, terete, brownish (jr grayish, the t)ranchlets stout, pilose with short, closely appressed hairs, the intcrnodes short; stipules ovate-deltoid, 3-4 mm. long, subulate-acuminate, .strigose outside, deciduous; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 3-14 mm. long, puberulent; leaf-blades oval, elliptic, oval-oblong or oblong-elliptic, 4-9 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. wide, acute to rounded at the apex, sometimes abruptly short-acuminate, broadly rounded to acutish at the base, subcoriaceous, green above, glabrous or puberulent along the costa, the costa subimpressed near the base but i)rominent toward the ai)e.x, the lateral nerves prominent, the veins prominentor prominulous-reticulate, beneath only slightly paler, very minutely appressed-pilosulous, or short-pilose on the veins, the costa and lateral nerves very prominent, the latter 7-9 on each side, ascending at a broad angle, the veins usually plane, sometimes prominulous but not conspicuous, the margin usually revolute or broadly recurved; cymes subcapitate, mostly 3-7-flowered, the branches usually very short, the peduncles slender, 2.5-5.5 cm. long, short-pilose, the flowers sessile, the bractlets ovate-deltoid, 1 mm. long; calyx and hypanthium minutely sericeous, the calyx 2-2.5 mm. long, truncate or obscurely bilobate; corolla white, 1 2 mm. long or longer, the stout tube minutely retrorse-pilose outside, the 5 lobes obovate, obtuse, one third as long as the tube or shorter; ovary 2or 3-celled; fruit oval-oblong, 7-8 mm. long, minutely tomentulose.
Type locality: Santiago, Cuba.
Distribution: Oriente and Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and Santo Domingo, on limestone rocks; in the latter country growing at an elevation of 1000 meters.