Guettarda erosa Urb. & Ekman

Guettarda erosa Urban & Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. ZlA'': 79
1927.
A small tree, the young branchlets densely covered with minute pale yellowish hairs or subtomentulose, the older ones terete, with internodes 2-4 cm. long; stipules ovate, acute or short-acuminate, up to 10 mm. long, tomcntulose dorsally, deciduous; petioles 7-15 mm. long; leaf-blades ovate-triangular, gradually narrowed to the very obtuse apex, cordate at the base, chartaceous, 8-12 cm. long, 4-8 cm. wide, scarcely lustrous above, scaberulous with very short stiff hairs, paler beneath, minutely pilose, the lateral nerves 9 or 10 on each side, the lowest horizontal, the upper ascending at an angle of 50-55 degrees, the veins prominulous beneath and reticulate, the margin plane, erosc-crenulate.
Type locality: La Tortue Island, near La Vallee, on Morne Barranca, altitude 300 meters, Haiti.
Distribution; Known only from the type locality.
Described from sterile specimens. Probably a relative of G. tortuensis Urban & Ekman, but differing in the shape and indimient of the leaves.