Guettarda angustata Urb. & Ekman

Guettarda angustata Urban 8z Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. 21A^:
80. 1927.
A small tree, the branchlets subterete, rufescent, densely and minutely pilose, the older branches glabrate, grayish or blackish, the internodes usually very short; stipules triangular, acute, deciduous, up to 8 mm. long, pilose with long subappressed hairs; petioles stout, 2-6 mm. long, densely short-pilose; leaf-blades lanceolate or lance-linear, often tapering gradually from base to apex, longattenuate to the narrow, acute or mucronate tip, cordate at the base or merely rounded in the smaller leaves, 3-6.5 cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide, coriaceous, green and lustrous above, puberulent on the nerves or glabrate, pale beneath, somewhat fulvous, densely and minutely tomentose, the costa stout and prominent, the lateral nerves prominent, 6-9 on each side, ascending at a very acute angle, the veins prominulous, closely reticulate; inflorescences axillary, mostly 3-flowered, the peduncle 1-7 mm. long, tomentulose, the flowers sessile, fragrant, the bracts lanceolate or lance-linear, 5 mm. long; calyx at first closed and caudateacuminate, falling off as a cap, the persistent portion 2-2.5 mm. long; corolla white, 15-17 mm. long, the tube cylindric, slightly ampliate above, minutely retrorse-pulverulent outside, appressed-sericeous above, minutely pilose within, the 5 or 6 lobes obovate, 5.5 mm. long; anthers linear, 2.8 mm. long; style 15 mm. long, minutely pilose, the stigmas obovate; fruit globose, 10-13 mm. in diameter, with as many as 25 cells, densely ochraceous-tomentose.
Type locality: Mole St. Nicolas, Batterie Valliere, in calcareous soil, northwestern peninsula of Haiti.
Distribution: Haiti.