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Bursera inaguensis (Britton) Britton

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Elaphrium inaguense (Britton) Rose
Bursera inaguensis Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 443. 1905. Terebinihus inaguensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 35 : 342. 1908.
A shrub or small tree, 3 meters or more high ; branches smooth, gray, glabrous ; leaflets 3-7, oblong to oblanceolate, entire, 6 cm. long, acute or obtuse, narrow at base, light-green, indistinctly veined, thin, somewhat shining above ; inflorescence often as long as the leaves ; peduncles slender, 1-6 cm. long ; pedicels 2-3 mm. long ; calyx-lobes acute ; petals oblonglanceolate, acute; drupes 6-8 mm. long.
Type locality : Moujean Harbor, Little Inagna, Bahama Islands. Distribution : Bahama Islands and perhaps Cuba.
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John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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