Machaonia pauciflora subsp. pauciflora

Machaonia littoralis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 43: 452. 1916
A shrub about 2 meters high, unarmed (?), the branches grayish, the branchlets slender, reddish-brown, puberulent, the internodes short; stipules minute, triangular; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 1 mm. long or shorter, puberulent, the blades rhombic-orbicular or rhombicelliptic, 6-10 mm. long, 7 mm. wide or narrower, rounded and abruptly short-decurrent at the base, rounded to acutish at the apex, subcoriaceous, glabrous, green above, sublustrous, slightly paler beneath, the lateral nerves obscure, 2 or 3 on each side, the margin subrevolute; inflorescence few-flowered, the flowers subsessile or on pedicels 1-2 mm. long, the bractlets linear; fruit obpyramidal, 2 mm. long, glabrate, the persistent calyx-lobes oblong-obovate, 1-1.5 mm. long, glabrous.
Type locality: Coastal thickets, vicinity of Siguanea, Isle of Pines, Cuba. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.