Guettarda baltenweckii Urb.

Guettarda baltenweckii Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 403. 1912
A small tree, the branches subterete, brownish, the internodes 1-2 cm. long, the branchlets more or less compressed, minutely pilose with gray appressed hairs; stipules triangular, ovate, or ovate-oblong, 3-4 mm. long, acute or acuminate, minutely appressed-pilose; leaf-blades ovalelliptic or elliptic, 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acuminate or short-acuminate, acute or subobtuse at the base, chartaceous or chartaceous-coriaceous, lustrous, green above, sparsely and minutely' pilose, the venation prominent, reticulate, beneath pale-green, thinly and minutely appressed-pilose, the lateral nerves prominent, 5-8 on each side, ascending at an angle of 50-60 degrees, suliarcuate, the margin plane, sparsely ciliate; inflorescence cymo.se, 3-1 1-flowered, 5—10 cm. broad, the peduncles 1-3 cm. long, shortly appressed-pilose, the flowers sessile, the bracts linear-subulate, 1-2.3 mm. long; hypanthium tomentulose, 1 mm. long, the calyx subcoriaceous, 1.5 mm. long, truncate, pilose; corolla sordidwhite, the tube 13 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose, the lobes narrow^ly obovate, 3.5 mm. long; anthers inserted in the corolla-throat, included, 2.8 mm. long, the filaments very short ; .style 1 2 mm. long, sparsely short-pilose; ovary 2-celled.
Type loc.xlity: Damp places, Vallee du Bras Gauche de la Grande Anse, Haiti, aiiitude 100 to 150 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.