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Antirhea granulata (Griseb.) Urban, vSymij. Ant. 1: 439. 1899
Slenoslomum granulatum Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 507. 1862. Citettarda .iiraniilata Maza, Anal. .Soc. Ivsp. Hist. Nat. 23: 290. 189,5.
A small tree, glabrous tlirouKhout, the braiielies brownish; stipules lance-triangular, 4 mm. long, acute; petioles 1.5-4 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong, narrowly elliptic-ol)long, or sj)atulateoblong, 3.5-6 cm. long, 1-2.2 cm. wide, narrowed to the rounded ape.x, acute or attenuate at the base, coriaceous, smooth above, the costa impressed, granulate-asperate beneath, the costa prominent, the lateral nerves obsolete; cymes bifid, about equaling the leaves, the peduncles about 1.5 cm. long, the flowers few, sessile, distant, ebracteolate; caly. and hypanthium 2.5 mm. long, the calyx half as long as the hypanthium, truncate; corolla white, 6 mm. long, the 4 lobes 1.5 mm. long; anthers included; style exserted; fruit elliptic-oblong, 1 cm. long, 2-celled.
Type locality: Monte Verde, Cuba.
Distribution: Type locality; reported also, with some uncertainty, from the mountains of Haiti, at 750 meters.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1934. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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