Guettarda stenophylla Urb.

Guettarda stenophylla Urban, Syinb. Ant. 7: 408. 1912
Branches slender, terete, brownish or grayish, lenticellate, the branchlets very slender, elongate, minutely appressed-pilose, with very short internodes; stipules lance-subulate or linear-subulate, 2-2.5 mm. long, soon deciduous; leaves opposite, the slender petioles 1-5 mm. long, appressed-pilose; leaf -blades linear or oblong-linear, 1-5.5 cm. long, 1.5-6 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex, acute or attenuate at the base, «ubchartaceous, bright-green above, copiously short-pilose, the costa prominulous but depressed, the other venation obscure, paler beneath, sericeous, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral nerves slender, 7-15 on each side, subdivaricate, the veins obsolete, the margin plane; inflorescences axillary, capitate, 1-3flowered, the filiform peduncles 1-12 mm. long, the flowers sessile, the bractlets linear, 1-1.5 mm. long; calyx and hypanthium sericeous, the calyx 1.5 mm. long, truncate; corolla white, densely antrorse-pilose outside, 8 mm. long, the tube glabrous within, the 4 or 5 lobes obovate, slightly shorter than the tube; anthers 1.6 mm. long; style glabrous; ovary 4-celled; fruit shortly globose-pyriform, truncate, obtusely 8-costate, 7 mm. long, tomentulose.
Type locality: Dry mountains near Barahona. Santo Domingo, altitude 50 meters. Distribution: In calcareous soil. Santo Domingo.