Guettarda lamprophylla Urb.

Guettarda lamprophylla Urban, Ark. Bot. 24 A^: 50. 1931
A shrub, the young branches covered with very short suberect hairs; stipules filiformacuminate from a triangular base, 2.5 mm. long, deciduous; petioles 2-3 mm. long; leaf-blades obovate or obtriangular, rounded or truncate at the apex and abruptly acuminate, the costa excurrent as a pungent spine 1-2 mm. long, acute at the base or rarely acuminate, rigidcoriaceous, 1.5-3 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, shining above, olivaceous when dried, glabrous, beneath shining, pale-green, minutely pilosulous on the nerves, the lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side, ascending at an angle of 60-65 degrees, prominent, the margin plane or subrecurved; peduncle axillary, 1 cm. long.
Type locality: La Gonave Island, Haiti, in limestone forest near Lotoroue, altitude 650 meters. Distribution; Known only from the type locality.
Based upon imperfect material. Related, according to Urban, to G. ocoana Urban & Ekman and less closely to G. pimgens Urban.