Suberanthus angustatus (C. Wright ex Griseb.) Borhidi

Rondeletia angustata C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anal. Acad. Habana
6: 122. 1869. Ferdinandea angustata C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 127. 1866.
Shrub or tree, sometimes 9 meters high (?), glabrous throughout, the branches stout, reddishor grayish-brown, the internodes mostly very short; stipules broadly triangular, 1-2 mm. long, acute, erect, persistent, brown; leaves opposite or quaternate, the petioles stout, 3-10 mm. long, the blades oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly obovate-oblong, 3-9 cm. long, I2.5 cm. wide, cuneate at the base, acute to rounded at the apex, coriaceous, lustrous, paler beneath, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins mostly obsolete, the margins subrevolute; inflorescence terminal, the peduncles stout, 0.5-5 cm. long, angulate, the flowers cymose, short-pedicellate, the cymes paniculate; bracts minute; calyx-lobes 4, ovate-oblong, about 1 mm. long, acute, erect, much shorter than the hypanthium; corolla red, the tube 5-6 mm. long, tapering from the base to the apex, naked in the throat, the 4 lobes oval, spreading, 2 mm. long; anthers and style included; capsule subglobose, about 7 mm. long, dark-brown, lenticellate; seeds flat, 2-3 mm. long, brown, appendaged at each end and winged, the wing irregularly laciniate.
Type locality: Swamps near Tascano, Cuba.
Distribution: Barrens and along arroyos, central and western Cuba.