Aquilon

Laugeria resinosa Vahl, Eclog. 1: 27. 1796
Guettarda resinosa Pers. Syn. PI. 1: 201. 1805. Slenostoinum resinosum Griseb. Kl. Brit. W. Ind. 334. 1861. Slenoslomum densiflorum Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 132. 1866. Laugeria densiflora Hitchc. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 93. 1893. Guettarda densiflora Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 23: 290. 1895. Anlirhea resinosa Cook & Coll. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 82. 1903.
A shrub or small tree 2-7 meters high, the branches subterete, grayish or yellowish, the branchlets stout, densely leafly, very resinous, with short or elongate internodes, glabrous or minutely pilose; stipule-sheath 2-3.5 mm. long, strigillose; petioles very stout, 2-8 mm. long, strigillose or glabrous, very resinous; leaf-blades narrowly elliptic-oblong to linear-lanceolate, 3-14 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, coriaceous, acute or acuminate, with obtuse tip, acute or attenuate at the base, green above and very lustrous, glabrous, the costa stout and prominent, the lateral nerves evident but scarcely elevated, beneath somewhat paler and brownish, glabrous or when young sparsely pilosulous, domatiate in the axils of the nerves, the costa prominent, the lateral nerves 8-11 on each side, prominulous, arcuate, the margin plane or subrevolute; peduncles slender, 3-5 cm. long, often recurved, the branches about 1 cm. long, 5-8-flowered; calyx and hypanthium 1-1.5 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so, the calyx broad and spreading; corolla white, glabrous or sparsely strigillose outside, the tube 6-7 mm. long, the 4 broad lobes 1.5 mm. long; fruit black, oval or subglobose, 4—6 mm. long, 4or 5-celled.
Type locality: Montserrat.
Distribution: Dry thickets. Bahamas; Cuba (Pinar del Rio and Oriente); Porto Rico; Santo Domingo; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Montserrat; Dominica; St. X'inccnt; also in Trinidad.