Guettarda nervosa Urb. & Ekman

Guettarda nervosa Urban & Ekinan; Irhaii, Symb. Anl. 9: 527
1928.
A slender shrub, the branches terete, dark-ferruginous, when young pubescent with short, mostly curved, spreading hairs, sparsely leafy near the tips; stipules triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-3 mm. long, deciduous; leaves ojjposite or on sterile branches ternate, the stout petioles 3-8 mm. long; leaf-blades of fertile branches narrowly oblanceolate, acute or rarely obtuse, attenuate to the base, 3-6 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, those of sterile branches lanceolate or rarely ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, as much as 10 cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide, glabrous above, olivaceous, very lustrous, the nerves sharply elevated, beneath green, shortpilose on the nerves, minutely sericeous between them, domatiate in the axils of the nerves, coriaceous, the costa stout, prominent, the lateral nerves prominent, 10-14 on each side, ascending at an angle of 25-40 degrees, parallel, almost straight, the veins obscure; mflorescences borne in the upper leaf-axils, the peduncles about 1 cm. long, the flowers 8 or fewer, glomerate, the bracts spatualte, 1 mm. long, early deciduous; calyx and hypanthium minutely and densely pilose; flowers white, their details unknown.
Type locality: Loma de la Vigia. near Trinidad. Santa Clara, Cuba. DisTRiBUTio.N': Known only from the type locality.