Machaonia subinermis Urb.

Machaonia subinermis Urban, Symb. Ant. 9: 530. 1928
A shrub, the branches terete, the older ones grayish, the lateral branchlets elongate,
widely divaricate, rarely subspinose at the apex, when young bifariously pilosulous; stipules
minute, annuliform, truncate; leaves of two forms, on petioles 1 mm. long or shorter; blades
of the principal leaves ovate-orbicular or subtriangular, 5-8 mm. long, 4-7 mm. wide, acute or short-acuminate, rounded at the base, sometimes slightly decurrent, the lateral nerves inconspicuous, usually 2 on each side ; blades of the axillary leaves obovate-oblong or linearoblong, 3-5 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed to the base, chartaceous; cymes laxly capitate at the ends of the branches, as much as 8 mm. in diameter, the flowers sessile or almost so; hypanthium obovate-orbicular, minutely pilosulous; calyx-lobes 1.3 mm. long, narrowly ovate, obtuse; corolla white, 3 mm. long, short-pilosulous, the tube ampliate upward, pubescent within, the lobes equaling the tube, ovate, obtuse; stamens shorter than the corolla; style 1.4 mm. long, bifid for one fifth its length; fruit obovate or short-obovate, 3-3.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, rounded at the base, minutely spreadingpilosulous.
Type locality: In suhhumid savannas near Motembo, Santa Clara, Cuba. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.