Exostema velutinum Standl.

Exostema velutinum Standley, sp. no v
Tree, 6 meters high, the branchlets slender, gray, lenticellate, densely short-pilose, the internodes equaling or shorter than the leaves; stipules deltoid, 1-2 mm. long, acute, brown, puberulent; petioles stout, 3-7 mm. long, densely short-pilose; leaf-blades ovate-oval, oval, or rounded-ovate, 3-5 cm. long, 1.8-3.5 cm. wide, broadly rounded at the base, acutish at the apex, subcoriaceous, green above, lustrous, glabrous, the venation plane or the costa subimpressed, paler beneath, densely velvety-pilose with short whitish hairs, the venation prominent, the lateral veins 3 or 4 on each, arcuate-ascending, the margin plane or nearly so; inflorescence terminal, cymose-corymbose, densely many-flowered, 3.5-7 cm. wide, the pedicels stout, 1-2 mm. long, short-pilose; calyx-lobes 4, minute, triangular-subulate; capsule obovoid, 3 mm. long, brown, short-pilose.
Type collected at border of mangrove swamp, Rio San Juan, Santa Clara, Cuba, March, 1910, N. L. Brilton, F. S. Earle, & Percy Wilson 5837 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).