Guettarda deamii Standl.

Guettarda deamii Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 209
1919.
A tree 3.5-4.5 meters high, the rather slender branches blackish, lenticellate, the branchlets densely short-pilose, with short internodes; stipules ovate-oblong, 2.5-4 mm. long, obtuse or subacute, appressed-pilose outside, soon deciduous; leaves opposite, the stout petioles 5-9 mm. long, densely short-pilose; leaf-blades mostly oval, sometimes oblong-oval or obovate-oval, 4-8.5 cm. long, 2.5-4.5 cm. wide, chartaceous, broadly rounded at the apex, rounded at the base, green above, densely short-pilose or pilose-scaberulous, the venation prominulous but more or less depressed, paler beneath, densely velutinous-pilosulous, the costa and lateral nerves prominent, the latter 8-10 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 50 degrees or more, the veins prominulous, laxly reticulate, the margin recurved; cymes axillary, subcapitate, 3-5flowered, the very stout peduncles 3-10 mm. long, densely short-pilose, the flowers sessile, the bractlets subulate, 3-4 mm. long, persistent; fruit globose, 8 mm. in diameter, 3or 4-celled, densely and minutely tomentulose.
Type locality: Mountain ridges near Gualan, Guatemala, altitude 185 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.