Scolosanthus lucidus Britton

Scolosanthus lucidus Brilton, Mem. Torrcy Citib 16: 112. 1920
A densely branched shrub about 1 meter high, the liranches rather stout, tortuous, rimose, grayish, the young branchlets densely papillose-puberulent and resinous, the internodes short; stipule-sheath scarcely 1 mm. long; petioles stout, 1-2 mm. long; leaf-blades suborbicular or orbicular-ovate, usually broadest below the middle, 8-13 mm. long and almost as wide, very obtuse or almost rounded at the apex, broadly rounded at the base, thick-coriaceous, glabrous, very lustrous on the upper surface, the costa impressed toward the base of the blade, scarcely paler beneath, the costa somewhat prominulous, the nerves obsolete, the margin revolute; calyx-lobes suborbicular, 0.8 mm. wide, minutely hispidulous; immature fruit subglobose, 4 mm. long, greenish.
Type locality: Moa Bay, east of Rio Moa, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Dry thickets, Oriente, Cuba.