Gonzalagunia brachyantha (A. Rich.) Urb.

Duggena brachyantha (A. Rich.) Standley, Contr. U. S Nat. Herb. 18: 125. 1916.
Pelesia spicata Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1945, in part. 1806.
Gonzalea brachyantha A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 16. 1850.
Gonzalea Petesia Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 321. 1861.
Gonzalagimia hirsula Petesia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 284. 1891.
Gonzalagunia Petesia Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 23: 289. 1894.
Gonzalagunia brachyantha Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 400. 1912.
Duggena Pelesia Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 126. 1916.
Shrub or small tree, up to 5 meters high, the branches slender, brown, strigose or pilose when young; stipules 5-10 mm. long, triangular, subulate-acuminate, densely sericeous within; petioles 0.4—1.5 cm. long; leaf -blades narrowly elliptic-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or ovateoblong, 6.5-15.5 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. wide, acute or attenuate at the base, usually subabruptly acuminate to long-attenuate at the apex, membranaceous or chartaceous, bright-green above, often lustrous, glabrous or when young sparsely pilose, the venation prominulous, paler beneath, sparsely pilose, especially along the veins, or glabrate, the lateral veins prominulous, 5-9 on each side, arcuate, usually ascending at an angle of 45° or less; inflorescence spiciform, 6-15 cm. long, often dense, short-pedunculate, the cymules few-flowered, sessile or subsessile, the bracts subulate, 2-3 mm. long, the pedicels 1 mm. long or shorter; calyx and hypanthium 1.5-2 mm. long, sparsely strigillose, the 4 calyx-lobes deltoid, acute or obtuse, shorter than the tube; corolla white, about 3 mm. long, sparsely appressed-pilose, the 4 lobes about half as long as the tube; style quadrifid; fruit tetracoccous, globose, about 2.5 mm. in diameter; seeds brown.
Type locality: Near Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
Distribution: Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola.