Elaeagia cubensis Britton

Elaeagia cubensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39: 10. 1912
Shrub, 2.5-3.2 meters high, the branches stout, grayish, the branchlets stout, subangulate, minutely puberulent when young, the internodes very short; stipules oblong, about 1 cm. long, obtuse, finally deciduous; petioles stout, 4-9 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong-obovate, 5-7 cm. long, 2.2-3 cm. wide, acute at the base, abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, coriaceous, glabrous, green above, sublustrous, the costa prominent, pale-brownish beneath, the venation prominent, the lateral veins mostly opposite, about 8 on each side, the margin plane or subrevolute; panicles sessile or short-pedunculate, 4.5-7.5 cm. wide, the branches minutely puberulent, the pedicels 1-3 mm. long, the bractlets minute; hypanthium obconic, 2.5 mm. long, glabrous; calyx obscurely 5-lobate; corolla white, 4 mm. long, the lobes oblong, obtuse, about twice as long as the tube; filaments equaling the corolla-lobes, the scale near the base of each bearing a dense tuft of white hairs ; stigma-lobes one fourth as long as the style.
Type locality: Monte Juquareto, Sierra Maestra, Oriente, Cuba, at an altitude of 1 100 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.