Guettarda crassipes Britton

Guettarda crassipes Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 42: 511. 1915
A shrub 1-1.5 meters high, the branches thick, blackish, rimose, the branchlets very stout, subcompressed, ferruginous, finely appressed-pilosc, the internodes mostly short; stipules ovatedeltoid, 7-10 mm. long, acute, ferruginous, apprcssed-pilose, deciduous; leaves opposite, the petioles very thick, 4—14 mm. long, brownish-pilose with long ascending hairs; leaf-blades oval, ovate-oval, or oval-elliptic, 6-9 cm. long, 4-7 cm. wide, obtuse or narrowly rounded at the apex, deeply or shallowly cordate at the base, thick-coriaceous, glabrous above, the costa and nerves impressed, the veins impressed but not conspicuous, beneath brownish, loosely pilose along the nerves with long brown ascending hairs, the costa very stout, the lateral nerves elevated, 5 or 6 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an acute angle, the veins prominent or prominulous, laxly reticulate, not very conspicuous, the margin widely recurved; cymes subcapitate, about 9flowered, terminal, the flowers subsessile, the bractlets lanceolate or filiform, as much as 1.5 cm. long; calyx and hypanthium densely appressed-pilose with short fulvous hairs, the calyx truncate, 4 mm. long; corolla white, densely pilose outside with long ascending hairs, in bud 1.5 cm. long.
Type locality: Between Rio Yamaniguey and Camp Toa, northern Oriente, Cuba, altitude 400 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.