Bertiera angustifolia Benth.

Bertiera angustifolia Bcnth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 103. 1845 A shrub 3 meters high, the branchlets slender, brown, densely pilose-strigose with fulvous hairs, the internodes elongate; stipules 1-1.8 cm. long, the sheath cleft on one side halfway to the base, shallowly cleft on the other side, thin, densely fulvous-sericeous; leaves sessile or nearly so, the blades oblong-lanceolate, 10-12.5 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, very acute or attenuate at the apex, membranaceous, concolorous, glabrous above or sericeous along the costa, the venation impressed, fulvous-sericeous beneath, especially along the prominent veins, the lateral nerves about 8 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an acute angle; inflorescence cymose-paniculate, the panicles 5.5-11 cm. long, 4-9 cm. wide, longpedunculate, the flowers secund, closely sessile, the bracts linear, 6-16 mm. long; calyx and hypanthium strigillose, the calyx-lobes triangular-subulate; corolla white, sparsely short-pilose outside; fruit globose, 3-3.5 mm. in diameter, sparsely strigillose; seeds 1-1.3 mm. long, coarsely granulate, orange-brown.
Type locality: Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Distribution: Cocos Island and Panama.