Guettarda foliacea Standl.

Guettarda foliacea vStandley, Contr. U. S. Xat. Herb. 18: 139
1916.
A shrub or tree, reported to attain sometimes a height of 1 5 meters and a trunk diameter of 30 cm., the branches slender, blackish-ferruginous, the branchlcts stout, appressed-pilose, with short internodes; stipules oblong-deltoid, 5 mm. long, acute or acuminate; leaves opposite, the slender petioles 1-2 cm. long, appressed-pilose; leaf-blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sometimes obovate-oblong, 10-16 cm. long, 3.5-5.5 cm. wide, acute to long-acuminate, very acute to obtuse at the base, membranaceous, green above, sparsely hispidulous with spreading setiform hairs, the costa and nerves prominulous, the veins laxly prominulous-reticulate, paler beneath, minutely and sparsely appressed-jjilose, the hairs long and denser on the nerves, the costa and lateral nerves slender, prominent, the latter about 8 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an acute angle, the veins inconspicuous, the margin plane; cymes axillary, dense, fewor manyflowered, the peduncles slender or stout, 1-2 cm. long or longer, the branches very short or rarely elongate, the flow^ers sessile, the bractlets oblong or linear-oblong, 4-5 mm. long, obtuse, green, persistent; calyx and hypanthium sericeous, the calyx 2.5 mm. long, truncate; corolla white, minutely sericeous outside, the slender tube 15-17 mm. long, scarcely dilated upward, the lobes oval, 4 mm. long, obtuse; style sparsely appressed-pilose; fruit subglobose, 10-12 mm. in diameter, densely fulvous-tomentose, 4-celled.
Type locality: Along the Trinidad River, Canal Zone, Panama. Distribution: In wet forest, Panama.