Dichapetalum donnell-smithii Engl.

Symphyllanthus donnell-smithii (Engler) Gleason
Dichapetalum Donnell-Smithii Engler, Bot. Jahrb. 23: 144. 1896.
Shrub or woody vine, 3-5 m. high; stems densely ferruginousor cinereoustomentose when young, becoming glabrous in age; leaf-blades thin but firm, deep-green, oblong to obovate-oblong, as much as 25 cm. long and 10 cm. wide at maturity, acute to abruptly short
acuminate, entire, acute to rounded at base, thinly and softly pubescent to scabrellate or nearly glabrous on the upper surface, thinly and softly hirsute beneath; lateral veins 4-7 pairs, curved-ascending, veinlets conspicuously reticulate; petioles 1-2 cm. long, tomentose; cymes in the upper axils, in fruit surpassed by subsequent growth of the stem, rounded, many flowered, freely branched, 2-5 cm. broad; peduncles free or adnate to the petiole nearly to the summit; sepals spreading, broadly round-ovate, inconspicuously 3-nerved, obtuse, densely tomentose without, brownish-purple within, 2 mm. long; petals shorter than the sepals, brown-purple, spatulate, unguiculate, involute and cucullate, bifid neaily to the middle, the lobes obtuse; stamens ascending, the filaments 3 mm. long; ovary conic-ovoid, densely white-tomentose; styles 2 ; fruit brown, flattened, ellipsoid, 15-20 mm. long, densely velutinous.
Type lpcality: Escuintla, Guatemala. Distribution: Guatemala.