Chomelia fasciculata (Sw.) Sw.

Anisomeris fasciculata (Sw.) K. Schumann Pfl. 4':98. 1891.
Ixora fasciculata Sw. Prodr. 30. 1788.
Chomelia fasciculata Sw. PI. 1ml. Occ. 238. 1797.
Caruelina fasciculata Kuntze, Rev Gen. 277. 1891,
Cuettarda fasciculata Maza, Anal. Soc. Bsp. Hist. Nat. 23: 290. [895.
A shrub, the slender branches brown or gray, short-pilose when young, with mostl) elongate internodes, the branchlets often spinose; stipules small, triangulai acuminate; petioles stout, 1-3 mm. long, short-pilose; leaf-blades rounded-ovate, elliptic, or elliptic oval, I cm. long, 0.7-2 cm. wide, obtuse, acute, or broadly short-acuminate, rounded to acuti a1 the base, chartaceous, deep-green above, glabrous or sparsely pilose along the costa, paler beneath, appressed-pilose along the nerves, the lateral nerves prominulous, 3-5 on each side, ar< ascending, the margin plane or subrevolute; cymes 2-3-fiowered, or 1-flowered, tinflowers sessile, the peduncles filiform, 1-3 cm. long, glabrous or nearly so, usually longer Mian the leaves; calyx and hypanthium sparsely pilose, the hypanthium narrowly turbinate, 2 mm. Ion-, the calyx-lobes oblong or linear, obtuse, 2-3 mm: long; corolla white, saberform, spars Ij short-pilose outside, the tube 7-12 mm. long, the lobes oblong, 2.5 mm. long, obtuse; anthers included; fruit narrowly oblong, 8 mm. long, glabrate.
Type locality: Grenada.
Distribution: Grenada, St. Vincent, Barbados, and Martinique.