Guettarda ramuliflora Beurl.

Guettarda ramuliflora Beurl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1854: 132
1856.
Matlhiola ramuliflora Kuntze. Rev. Gen. 288. 1891. Guettarda lobagensis Urban. Symb. Ant. 7: 406. 1912.
A shrub or small tree, the branches subterete, dark-ferruginous, sparsely lenticellate, the branchlets stout, compressed, strigose, with short internodes; stipules deltoid, 6-7 mm. long, cuspidate-acuminate, strigose outside, white-sericeous within, deciduous; leaves opposite, the stout petioles 5-10 mm. long, densely strigose; leaf-blades broadly elliptic-ovate, roundedelliptic, or verj' broadly elliptic-obovate, broadest at or above the middle, 8-18 cm. long, 5-9.5 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex and usually broadly short-acuminate, sometimes rather long-acuminate, obtuse or acute at the base, membranaceous, green above, sparsely strigose when young, becoming glabrate, the costa and veins prominent or prominulous, slightly paler beneath, densely sericeous-strigose when young with stiff lustrous hairs, the pubescence sparse in age, the costa stout, prominent, the lateral nerves slender, prominent, 10 or 11 on each side, subarcuate, ascending usually at an acute angle, the veins usually prominulous, not reticulate; inflorescences subcapitate or short-bifid, usually 3-flowered, the peduncles stout, compressed, 5-7 mm. long, densely and minutely sericeous, the flowers sessile; calyx and hypanthium minutely fulvous-sericeous, the calyx truncate, 3 mm. long; corolla 12 mm. long in bud, densely fulvous-pilose outside with rather long soft ascending hairs, the tube very stout, 4-5 mm. wide in the throat, fruit depressed-globose, 12-14 mm. long, 16-18 mm. wide, 5-celled, densely and minutely fulvousor brownish-tomentulose.
Type locality: Near Porto Bello, Panama. Distribution: In forest, Panama and Tobago.