Dendropanax nervosus (Urb. & Ekman) A. C. Sm.

Dendropanax nervosus (Urban & Ekman) A. C. Smith,
Trop. Woods 66: 3. 1941.
Gilibertia nervosa Urban & Ekman; Urban, Repert. Sp. Nov. 22: 92. 1925.
Slender tree, the branchlets slender, terete, rugose, cinereous; petioles striate, 0.5-8 cm. long; leaf-blades oblong or obovate-elliptic, 7-15 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad, obtuse or acute at the base, short-acuminate and callose-mucronate at the apex, entire and revolute at the margins, shining above, obscurely punctate, pinnately veined, the costa prominent beneath, the secondary nerves about 9 per side, with the veinlets often prominulous on both surfaces; inflorescence a simple terminal or axillary umbel, the peduncle straight, 4—8 cm. long, the receptacle flattened, 3-4 mm. broad, the flowers 5-merous, 10-15 per umbel, the pedicels 6-8 mm. long; calyx obconic, about 2 mm. long and broad; petals and stamens not seen; summit of the ovary slightly convex, the styles about 1 mm. long, connate at the base, free above, recurved after anthesis.
Type locality: Cuba, Oriente. Distribution: Cuba, Oriente, about 700 m.