Machaonia minutifolia Britton & P. Wilson

Machaonia minutifolia Britton & Wilson; Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 16: 112. 1920.
A rather densely branched shrub about 2 meters high, the branches slender and somewhat flexuous, the older ones ferruginous or ochraceous, with short internodes, the young branchlets ferruginous, puberulent or glabrate, often becoming pungent and spinelike; leaves very shortly petiolate, the blades ovate-orbicular to broadly obovate, 2-4 mm. long, broadly rounded at the apex, subtruncate to acute at the base, subcoriaceous, ciliate, sparsely scabrous on the upper surface, somewhat paler and glabrous beneath; flowers sessile or nearly so in the small few-flowered short-pedunculate cymes; calyx-lobes rounded-spatulate, obtuse, equaling or shorter than the hypanthium; corolla white, 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, with short obtuse lobes; style almost equaling the calyx-lobes; fruit 2-2.3 mm. long, 1.8 mm. wide, scaberulous, very obtuse at the base, compressed, bisulcate.
Type locality: Palm barren between Camaguey and Santayana, Cuba. Distribution: In dry thickets, Camaguey and Oriente, Cuba.