Guapira obtusata subsp. obtusata

Torrubia obtusata (Jacq.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 612
1904.
Pisonia obtusata Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. 3: 36. 1798.
Psidium cordatum Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 242, in part. 1860. Not P. cordatum Sims, 1816.
Psidium ? pulverulentum Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 19: 567. 1894.
Pisonia calophylla Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 625. 1896.
Torrubia Cokeri Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 613. 1904.
Pisonia obtusata domingensis Heimerl, Symb. Ant. 7: 215. 1912.
Torrubia domingensis Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 100. 1916.
Shrub or tree, 8 meters high or less, the branches stout, gray, the branchlets stout, rufopuberulent when young, glabrate in age, spreading or ascending, the internodes 0.5-3 cm. long; leaves opposite, subequal, the petioles stout, 0.3-2 cm. long, 1.5-2 mm. thick, rufo-puberulent, the blades broadly oval, obovate-oval, oblong, or rounded-obovate, 4.5-11.5 cm. long, 2.5-7 cm. wide, broadly rounded to cuneate at the base, broadly rounded at the apex, sometimes shallowly emarginate, thick-coriaceous, concolorous or slightly paler beneath, lustrous above, dull beneath, often sparsely puberulent beneath when young but soon glabrate, the margins revolute, the lateral veins slender, numerous, straight, the veinlets prominently and finely reticulate; peduncles terminal, stout or slender, 1.5-5 cm. long, sparsely rufo-puberulent or glabrate, the inflorescence cymose, many-flowered, 3-7 cm, broad, the branches slender or stout, divaricate, opposite or verticillate, sparsely puberulent, the flowers sessile or on pedicels 1-2 mm. long, the bractlets ovate, 1 mm. long, puberulent; staminate perianth funnelform, 3-5 mm. long, sparsely puberulent, greenish-white, the limb obtusely 5-dentate; stamens usually 6, twice as long as the perianth; pistillate perianth oblong-ellipsoid, 2.5-3 mm. long, slightly constricted below the apex, obtusely 5-dentate; fruit 6-7 mm. long, 3-3,5 mm. in diameter, bright-red, coarsely striate; seed oblong, 4.5 mm. long, brown, striate.
Type locality: Island of New Providence, Bahamas.
Distribution: Low thickets, usually near the sea, Bahamas, Cuba, Santo Domingo, and