Guettarda aculeolata Urb.

Guettarda aculeolata Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 546. 1913
A tree, the branches terete, grayish, lenticcllate, the branchlets stout, divaricate, shortaculeolate and densely pilose with short, spreading or ascending hairs, densely leafy; stipules triangular-lanceolate, 2-3.5 mm. long, acuminate, pilose, subpersistent ; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 1-2 mm. long, minutely pilose, the blades ovate-elliptic to ovate-oblong, 1-3 cm. long, 0.5-1 cm. wide, acutish or subacuminate, obtuse or rounded at the base, chartaceous, green above, sparsely short-pilose with mostly appressed hairs, the costa and lateral nerves slender, prominent, slightly paler beneath, thinly white-sericeous, the laternal nerves prominent, 4-7 on each side, arcuate, the veins obsolete, the margin plane or subcrispate; peduncles slender, 1-2.5 cm. long, densely short-aculeolatc, short-pilose, 1-3-flowercd, the flowers sessile or shortpedicellate, the bractlets linear-lanceolate, 1.8-2.5 mm. long, persistent; calyx 2.5 mm. long, truncate or obscurely bilobate, sericeous; corolla violet, 1.3-1.7 cm. long, densely antrorsesericeous, the lobes 5 or rarely 6, rounded, about one fifth as long as the tube, this pubescent within in the lower part; anthers 2.3 mm. long, the tips exserted; style short-pilose below; ovary 2or 3-celled.
Type locality: Las Canitas. Province of Azua. Santo Domingo. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.