Guettarda torbeciana Urb. & Ekman

Guettarda torbeciana Urban & Ekman; Urban, Ark. Bot. 24A*:
49. 1931.
A shrub, the branchlets covered with .short erect hairs, the internodes 5-15 mm. long; stipules filiform-acuminate from an ovate base, 3-5 mm. long, persistent; petioles 2-3 mm. long; leaf-blades broadly oval, rarely short-obovate or broadly ovate, acute or short-acuminate and mucronate-pungent, subacute at the base or rarely obtuse or rounded, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, chartaceous, olivaceous above and very sparsely pilose, lustrous, paler beneath, sparsely strigillose along Ihc costa, thu lateral iicrvc-s 5 or 6 on c-acli side, proiiiiiicnt, divcrgciU al an angle of 60 degrees, irregularly retiiiilale, the margin plane, suberosc, ciliulc.
Tvri-: LOCAi.iTv: Massif de la ilotlc, near Torlx-c, in hijjh nwnnitains above !,a Marel'ruiix, Haiti. t4evatioii 1700 meters.
KiiDwii only from sterile specimens. According to the antluirs, prohalily a relative of C. ro-
titiulifolia I'rban.