Neea subcoccinea Heimerl

Neea subcoccinea Heimerl, Symb. Ant. 7: 219. 1912
Small tree, the branches glabrous, the branchlets slender, grayish-brown or rufescent, densely rufo-hirtellous when young, finally glabrate; leaves opposite or alternate, the petioles slender, 3-9 mm. long, the blades ovate-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 1.3-4.4 cm. long, 0.91.8 cm. wide, broadest near the middle, acute to rounded at the apex, acute or obtuse at the base and short-decurrent, deep-green and sparsely hirtello-puberulent on the upper surface, densely hirtellous beneath, the lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, slightly arcuate, inconspicuous; peduncles of the staminate cymes 1-1.6 cm. long, slender, terminal and axillary, few-flowered, the flowers usually 2-5, subspicate or subcapitate, yellow, subsessile or on pedicels 1 mm. long or shorter, the perianth 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, urceolate, glabrate; stamens 7, 2-3.5 mm. long; pistillate flowers and fruit not known.
Typ£ locality: Near Barahona, Santo Domingo. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.