Machaonia lindeniana Baill.

Machaonia lindeniana Baillon, Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 204
1879. A shrub or tree 2-7.5 meters high, unarmed, the branches dark-brown, coarsely lenticellate, the branchlets slender, minutely and bifariously puberulent, the internodes mostly elongate; stipules 2 mm. long, subulate-cuspidate from a deltoid base; leaves opposite, the petioles slender 2-4 mm. long, ciliolate, the blades broadly ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic-oblong, 2-4 cm. long, 0.8-1.8 cm. wide, acute or obtuse at the base, acute, short-acuminate, or obtuse at the apex, chartaceous, green above, glabrous, scarcely paler beneath, short-barbate in the axils of the nerves, elsewhere glabrous, the lateral nerves inconspicuous, 3 or 4 on each side; inflorescence branched, many-flowered, 4-7 cm. broad, the branches puberulent or glabrate, the flowers sessile or long-pedicellate, the bracts linear, sometimes 8 mm. long, green; calyx and hypanthium 1.5-2 mm. long, the hypanthium sparsely pilose with short spreading hairs or glabrate, the 4 or 5 calyx-lobes spatulate-obovate, rounded at the apex, about as long as the hypanthium, glabrous, usually ciliolate, accrescent and longer than the fruit; corolla 3 mm. long, ochroleucous, glabrous outside, the lobes ovate, obtuse, shorter than the tube; fruit obpyramidal, 2-2.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Campeehe, Campeehe.
Distribution: In usually dry thickets or forests, Campeehe and Yucatan to British Honduras.