Siphocampylus subglaber Urb.

Siphocampylus subglaber Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 418. 1912
Slender shrub 1 m. high or less; basal part of leaves and the petioles marginally hairy, the whole plant otherwise glabrous; stems green, up to 6 mm. in diameter; cauline leaves crowded, spreading-ascending, 50 or fewer, coriaceous, shining above (?), the blades narrowly elliptic, 0.8-1.5 cm. wide, 4—11 cm. long, usually about 10 times as long as wide, the upper gradually smaller, the tip acute, blunt-acuminate, the base attenuate, subpetiolar, the margins entire, somewhat revolute, firm, with few obscure usually inrolled callosities; inflorescence 15 cm. long or less, interrupted, the 10-25 flowers in the a.ils of the upper leaves; pedicels slender, spreading-ascending, 30-40 mm. long in fruit, each with a pair of decurrent puberulent filiform bracteoles 1-4 mm. long, at the middle or above; flower 2.5-3 cm. long, including hypanthium; corolla red, the throat yellow (according to Shafer), glabrous without, retrorsely-pubescent in lines within, especially near base, the tube straight, about 15 mm. long, entire, nearly cylindrical, narrowest near base and slightly enlarged distally, the lobes narrowly lanceolate or almost linear, not recured, about 1.5 mm. wide at base, 7-8 mm. long, acute, the two upper ones slightly the longest; filament-tube about 17 mm. long, glabrous distally, the filaments free from the corolla or slightly adnate to it at base, distinct about a third their length at base and there strongly white-hairy; anther-tube 5 mm. long, all the anthers somewhat tufted at or near the lip; h>-panthium in anthesis obconic, or turbinate, the base acute, in fruit becoming campanulate with attenuate base, or turbinate, slightly oblique, 6-7 mm. in diameter; capsule 10-12 mm. long, almost wholly inferior, the open valves very short, surpassed and concealed by the short rim of the h>-panthium (in dried material) ; calyx-lobes triangular-subulate, entire, up to 3 mm. wide at base, 3-5 mm. long; seeds light brown, slightly lustrous, ellipsoid with rounded ends, about 0.7 mm. long, 0.45 mm. wide, nearly smooth, shallowly pitted-reticulate.
TvpB locality: Camp La Gloria, south of Sierra Moa, Oriente, Cuba, Shafer 8241 {isotypc, NYI).
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.