Guettarda apiculata Urb. & Ekman

Guettarda apiculata Urban & Ekman, Ark. Bot. 21 A^: 81. 1927
A shrub or small tree, 2-3 meters high, the young branchlets densely covered with minute erect rufous hairs; stipules long-subulate-acuminate from a triangular base, as much as 6 mm. long, pilose; petioles 4—12 mm. long; leaf-blades broadly obovate to suborbicular, 3-11 cm. long, 2-7 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the apex, very shortly triangular-acuminate and pungent-mucronate, rounded to cuneate-acute at the base, coriaceous, somewhat lustrous above and often glaucescent, when young sparsely and minutely pilosulous but soon glabrate, somewhat brownish beneath, thinly sericeous or glabrate, the lateral nerves sharply prominent, 5-7 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of 45-65 degrees, the veins scarcely prominulous, inconspicuously reticulate; inflorescences axillary, cymose-capitate, 3-flowered, the peduncles 0.7-3 cm. long, the bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 4.5 mm. long; calyx subtruncate, 2.5 mm. long; fruit globose, 7.5 mm. in diameter, 2-celled.
Type locality: Massif du Nord, near Anse-^-Foleur, on the main peak of Morne Chesnaii. Haiti, altitude 750 meters.
Distribution: Limestone mountains of Haiti.