Guapira ligustrifolia (Heimerl) Lundell

Torrubia ligustrifolia (Heimerl) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat
Herb. 18: 100. 1916.
Pisonia ligustrifolia Heimerl, Symb. Ant. 7: 507. 1913.
Branches slender, grayish, substriate, the internodes 0.9-5.2 cm. long, the branchlets at first sparsely rufo-hirtellous, soon glabrate; leaves opposite, subequal, the petioles 5 mm. long or less and 2 mm. thick, glabrous, the blades elliptic, 4.4-7.2 cm. long, 1.9-3.3 mm. wide, usually widest at the middle and slightly more than twice as long as wide, nearly equally rounded at both ends, thick-coriaceous, concolorous, dull or sublustrous, glabrous, the margins revolute, the midvein very prominent beneath, the lateral veins numerous, slender, straight, connected by numerous reticulate veinlets; pistillate peduncles 3 cm. long, stout, glabrate, the inflorescence corymbose, many-flowered, the primary branches trichotomous, very sparsely rufo-hirtellous or glabrate, the flowers solitary, subsessile or on pedicels 2 mm. long or shorter, the bractlets triangular-lanceolate, acutish, 1 mm. long, the perianth tubular or tubularfunnelform, 4 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, the limb suberect, the 5 teeth sublanceolate, subobtuse; style exserted; fruit (immature) 8 mm. long and 3 mm. thick, fusiform-ellipsoid.
Type locality: Santo Domingo.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.