Guettarda lanuginosa Urb. & Britton

Guettarda lanuginosa Urban & Britton; Urban, Symb. Ant. 7:
407. 1912.
A small tree, the branches smooth, terete, brown, lustrous, glabrous, sparsely lenticellate, the branchlets with pubescence of ferruginous or finally white hairs, these partly long and spreading and partly very short and dense, the internodes 1.5-2 cm. long; stipules 8-15 mm. long, tubular-connate below, filiform-acuminate, brown, long-pilose, sericeous within, soon deciduous; petioles very thick, 5-10 mm. long; leaf-blades oval or oval-oblong, 4.5-7 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. wide, rounded or subtruncate at the apex, shallowly or deeply and narrowly cordate at the base, rigid-coriaceous, sparsely pilose or glabrate above, the nerves prominulous, not anastomosing, beneath pilose along the nerves, minutely pilose or glabrate between them, the lateral nerves 7 or 8 on each side, very prominent, ascending at an angle of about 40 degrees, straight, the veins elevated and closely reticulate, the margin plane or nearly so; inflorescences crowded at the tips of the branches, sessile or on peduncles as much as 12 mm. long, 3-5-flowered, the outer bracts ovate, linear-acuminate, 7-12 mm. long, the inner ones narrower; hypanthium densely villous, the calyx in bud caudate-acuminate, in anthesis cleft on one side or into 2 lobes, 7-8 mm. long; corolla white, 2.5-3.2 cm. long, the tube slender, densely whitish-villous, the 5 or 6 lobes broadly oblong, 8 mm. long, glabrous within; anthers linear, 2.5 mm. long; style 18 mm. long, pilose; fruit globose, 5-8 mm. in diameter, 4-5-celled, covered with a minute tomentum and also long-pilose.
Type locality: Near Pueblo Romano, Cayo Romano, Camaguey, Cuba. Distribution: In calcareous forest and thickets, Camaguey, Cuba.