Guettarda ferruginea Griseb.

Guettarda ferruginea Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 131. 1866
Guettarda calyplrata var. ferfuginea C. Wright; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci. Hahana 6: 123. 1869.
A shrub or tree, sometimes 6 meters high, with a trunk 7.5 cm. in diameter, the thick branches gray or blackish, the very stout branchlets ferruginous, densely short-pilose and longpilose with sU'ikIlt forruKinous hairs, the intLTiiodcs short or elongate; stipules ovate-oViloiij;, acute, 1.5-2 cm. long, long-pilose, caducous; leaves opposite, the petioles very thick, 6-1.5 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong or oval-oblong, 2.5-10 cm. long, 1.2-6.5 cm. wide, rounded or olituse at the apex, cordate or .subcordate at the base, very rigid-coriaceous, tomentose above when young but soon glabrate, the venation impressed or subimiJressed, the veins closely reticulate, beneath densely fcrruginous-tomcntose, pilose on the nerves, the costa and nerves very stout and prominent, the latter 6-10 on each side, straight or subarcuate, the veins prominent but usually obscured by the tomentum, the margin commonly recurved; cymes subcapitate, 3-7-flowered, the peduncles 5-10 mm. long, the flowers sessile, the bractlets lanceolate, equaling the calyx; calyx and hypanthium densely ferruginous-pilose, the calyx calyptriform, usually 2-cleft by the expanding corolla and deciduous before anthesis, the lower part sometimes persistent; corolla white, densely antrorse-pilose outside with long lax ferruginous hairs, the tube 2.3-3 cm. long, the 6 lobes oblong, obtuse, one third as long as the tube, glabrous within; fruit globose, 12-16 mm. in diameter, ferruginous-tomentulose, with 5 or 6 or more cells.
Type uoc.m.itv: Pinelands near Mayari, Cuba.
Distribi'Tion: Oriento, Cuba, at 400-750 meters, sometimes growing in pine forests.