Antirhea tenuiflora F. Muell. ex Benth.

Antirhea tenuiflora Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 438. 1899
A small tree, glabrous except the flowers and stipules, the branches brownish or blackish, not viscid; stipules 5-6 mm. long, deltoid-oblong, ciliolate, early deciduous; petioles stout, 3-8 mm. long; leaf-blades elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or obovate-oblong, 5-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, broadest at or above the middle, obtuse or subacuminate, cuneate at the base, coriaceous, sublustrous above, the costa impres.sed, the nerves obscure, beneath paler and brownish, the costa prominent, the lateral nerves inconspicuous, 6 or 7 on each side, ascending at an angle of 50-60°, the margin plane or recurved; cymes once or twice bifid, the branches 1.5-2 cm. long, with 10 or fewer flowers, the peduncles 1-5 cm. long, the flowers subsessile, biseriate, ebracteolate; hypanthium very minutely pilosulous, 1.5 mm. long, the calyx 0.5 mm. long, minutely 4-lobate, the lobes semiorbicular; corolla 8 mm. long, sparsely and very minutely pilosulous outside, the tube pilose within above the base, the 4 lobes rounded-ovate, one fourth as long as the tube; anthers included; style glabrous, the stigma-lobes oblong-linear; fruit oval-oblong, 6-7 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. thick, 2-celled.
Type locality: Cuba, the exact locality not known.
Distribution: Calcareous soil, Oriente and Pinar del Rio, end the Isle of Pines, Cuba