Baja California Stegnosperma

Stegnosperma halimifolium Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 17. 1844
Diospyros obovala Spreng. Syst. 2: 203. 1825. Not D. obovata Jacq. 1798. Slegnosperma cubense A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 10: 309. 1845.
A glabrous shrub, or a vine sometimes 8 m. long; leaf-blades obovate or elliptic, 1.5-7.5 cm. long, 0.9-3.5 cm. broad, rounded or obtuse and occasionally emarginate, or rarely acute at the apex, acute to acuminate at the base, often rather indistinctly veined ; petioles 3-9 mm. long; flowering racemes erect, cylindric, rather dense, 4-14 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. broad; pedicels 5-9 mm. long; sepals 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad; petals elliptic to oval, 4-4.2 mm long, 2.5-3 mm. broad, white; filaments 2.5-4 mm. long; anthers 2 mm. long; ovary broadly ellipsoid, 2-2.3 mm. in diameter; capsule subglobose, 7-9 mm. in diameter; seed 4 mm. long, black.
Type locality: Cape San Lucas, Lower California.
Distribution: Cuba; Jamaica; Kispaniola; Porto Rico; Lower California and Sonora to Central America.