Placa Chiquitu

Antirhea acutata (DC.) Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 439. 1899
Slenoslomum aculalum DC. Prodr. 4: 460. 1830.
Gnellarda viscosa Duchass. & Walp. Linnaea 23: 754. 1850.
Guellarda resinosa Griseb. Abh. Ges. Wiss. Gott. 7: 228. 1857. Not G. resinosa Pers. 1805.
Slenoslomum viscosum Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 334. 1861. Antirhea viscosa Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 2; 100. 187.^.
Antirhea arislala Benth. & Hook. Cicn. PI. 2: 100. 1H73. (Typographical error for atutala.)
Antirhea acutala var. latifolia Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 4.V.>. 1899.
A shrub or small tree, sometimes 8 meters hi^h, the branches Rrayish, the liranchlets stout, densely leafy, very resinous, densely pul)erulent; stipules triangular, 2.5-3.5 mm. lonj;, acute or acuminate, brown, minutely puberulcnt, persistent; petioles stout, 2-5 mm. lonx, puberuleiit ; leaf-blades elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or oval-oblong, 1.7-5 cm. long, 0.7-1.8 cm. wide, broadest at the middle, obtuse to acute or obtusely short-acuminate, acute or obtuse at the base, coriaceous, lustrous, green above, glabrous, the costa more or less impressed, the other venation promiimlous, conspicuously and closely reticulate, pale or brownish beneath, strigillose or glabrate, usually more or less barbate in the axils of the nerves, the costa prominent, the lateral nerves inconspicuous, 8-11 on each side, arcuate, the margin usually recurved or revolute; cymes once bifid, the branches 5-9 mm. long, 3-7-flowered, the pediuicles 1-1.5 cm. long, the flowers sessile, approximate, minutely bracteolate; calyx and hypanthium 2 mm. long, minutely pilose, the calyx as long as the hypanthium, deeply 5-lobate, the lobes lance-subulate; corolla white, glabrous outside, the tube 7-9 mm. long, slender, the 5 lobes oval-obovate, 2.5 mm. long; anthers included; fruit oval, 4—5 mm. long, 4— 6-celled.
Type locai-itv: Guadeloupe.
Distribution: Cliffs and rocky hillsides, chiefly near the coast, Porto Rico and the adjacent islands; Guadeloupe; Desirade; also in Curasao, Bonaire, and Aniba.