Cucubano De Vieques

Guettarda odorata (Jacq.) Lam. Tab. luicvc. 2: 219. 1819
Laugieria odorata Jacc). Enum. PI. Carih. 16. 1760.
A stifl' shrub 3-4.5 meters high, the branches gray or blackish-ferruginous, sparsely lenticellate, the branchlcts slender or stout, pubcrulent when young, the internodes short or elongate; stipules lancc-subulate, 5-8 mm. long, tardily deciduous; leaves opposite, the stout petioles 2-7 mm. long, puberulent or short-pilose; leaf-blades elliptic, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-oval, or rhombic-obovate, 3-6.5 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide, acute or short-acuminate, rounded or obtuse at the base, membranaceous or subchartaceous, green and sublustrous above, glabrous, the costa and nerves subimpressed, the veins obscure, paler beneath, minutely appressed-pilose along the nerves, the costa and lateral nerves prominent, the latter about 8 on each side, arcuate, the veins inconspicuous, the margin usually plane; cymes axillary, dense, 3-many-flowered, with very short branches, the slender peduncles 1-3.5 cm. long, the flowers sessile, the bractlets lanceolate, almost as long as the calyx, subpersistent ; calyx and hypanthium minutely tomentulose, the calyx 1.5-2 mm. long, truncate; corolla reddish or white, antrorse-sericeous outside, the slender tube 1 1-16 mm. long, the 5 or 6 lobes obovate-oblong, 3-4mm. long, glabrous within; fruit globose, 6 mm. in diameter, 5-celled, densely and minutely tomentulose.
Type locality: Cartagena, Colombia.
Distributio.n: Panama to Colombia. Venezuela, and the Giiianas; St. incent; reported, probabh' in error, from Mexico.

Guettarda parviflora Vahl, Eclog. 2: 26. 1798
Cuettarda parvifolia Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1958. 1806.
Myginda Bredemeyeri Schultes, in R. & S. Syst. Veg. Mant. 3: 349. 1827.
Mjiirida penlandra Willd.; vSchultes, in R. & S. Svst . Veg. Mant. 3; 349, as synonym. 1827.
Malthiola pariiflora Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 288. 1891.
Malthiola parvifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 288. 1891.
A shrub or tree, sometimes 10 meters high, the branches gray or ferruginous, often roughened by conspicuous whitish lenticels, the branchlets usually rigid and divaricate, minutely appressedpilosulous when young, usually densely leafy; stipules deltoid-acuminate, 2-3 mm. long, deciduous; leaves opposite, the slender or stout petioles 2-12 mm. long; leaf-blades mostly elliptic or oval-elliptic, sometimes oval or broadly ovate, 1.5-5 cm. long, 0.8-3 cm. wide, rounded to acute at the apex, sometimes apiculate, rounded to acute at the base, membranecous, brightgreen and lustrous above, usually glabrous, the costa impressed toward the base, the nerves prominulous, the veins obscure, laxly reticulate, slightly paler beneath, minutely appressedpilose along the nerves or glabrate, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral nerves prominulous, 4—7 on each side, subarcuate, the veins usually obscure, the margin plane; cymes axillary, 3-flowered, the central flower sessile, the lateral ones on branches 1-3 mm. long, the peduncles subfiliform, 0.7-2.5 cm. long, the bractlets linear, caducous; calyx and hypanthium tomentulose, the calyx 1.5 mm. long, truncate; corolla white, antrorse-sericeous outside, the tube 7-9 mm. long, the 5 or 6 lobes rounded-obovate, 2.5-3 mm. long; fruit globose, 4-5 mm. in diameter, 5-celled, minutely tomentulose, black at maturity.
Type locality: St. Croix.
Distribution: Usually in dry thickets, Porto Rico and the Lesser Antilles; Trinidad, Venezuela, and the Guianas.