Guettarda preneloupii Urb.

Guettarda preneloupii Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 510. 1908
A shrub or small tree, the branches grayish or blackish-brown, the stout branchlets densely tomentulose and long-pilose with fulvous or ferruginous spreading hairs, the internodes short ; stipules at first coalescent over the buds, later separating, oblong-ovate, 7-13 mm. long, 3-7 mm. wide, obtuse, thin, brown, long-pilose outside, whitish-sericeous within, soon deciduous; leaves opposite, the stout petioles 5-14 mm. long, densely pilose; leaf -blades oval or ellipticoval, 3-12 cm. long, 1.5-7.5 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, truncate to deeply cordate at the base, thick-coriaceous, yellowish-green above, copiously short-pilose, the venation deeply impressed, beneath slightly paler, densely short-pilose, appressed-pilose with long hairs on the nerves, the lateral nerves very stout and prominent, 6 or 7 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 40-50 degrees, the veins pale, very prominent, finely reticulate, the margin subrevolute; inflorescence subcapitate, usually 3-flowered, the stout peduncles 8 mm. long or shorter, the flowers sessile, the bracts ovate or suborbicular, 6-7 mm. long; calyx and hypanthium densely appressed-pilose, the calyx truncate, 5 mm. long, cleft on one side ; corolla white, densely appressed-pilose outside with long ascending hairs, the stout tube 2-3.5 cm. long, slightly dilated upward, pubescent within, the 6 lobes narrowly oval, rounded at the apex, 5-6 mm. long; anthers subsessile, 2 mm. long; style appressed-pilose; fruit obovoid-globose, 12-15 mm. long, 11-13 mm. thick, 6-celled, minutely fulvous-tomentulose.
Type locality: Santo Domingo. Distribution: Hispaniola.