Guettarda lacornea Urb. & Ekman

Guettarda lacornea Urban & Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. 21A^:
79. 1927.
A small tree, the young branchlets densely pilose or villosulous with spreading hairs, the older branches terete, stout, ochraceous or brownish, glabrate; stipules broadly ovate, apiculate, 7 mm. long or less, pilose with long and short hairs intermixed, early deciduous; leaves opposite, the petioles 0.8-2 cm. long ; leaf -blades ovate-elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 5-13 cm. long, 2.5-8 cm. wide, very obtuse or rounded at the apex, truncate at the base or deeply and narrowly cordate, chartaceous or coriaceous, dark-green and dull above, minutely pilose, the venation conspicuously impressed, paler beneath, softly short-pilose, the costa stout and prominent, the lateral nerves 7 or 8 on each side, very prominent, ascending at an angle of 40-50 degrees, the veins very prominent and closely reticulate; inflorescences axillary, capitately about 4-flowered, on a peduncle 8 mm. long, the bracts linear, 3 mm. long, the bractlets linear-filiform, as much as 5 mm. long; calyx 4 mm. long, shallowly trilobate, erect-pilosulous; corolla 15 mm. long, the tube ascending-pilose outside, whitish-pubescent within, slightly ampliate upward, the 6 lol^es narrowly ovate; anthers linear, 2 mm. long; style 10 mm. long, appresscd-pilosulous; ovary 5-celled.
Type locality: Morne Lacorne, along road between Port-de-Paix and Jean-Rabel, northwestern peninsula of Haiti.
Distribution: Dry hillsides, Haiti.