Puntaj Jayuya

Chione seminervis Irbau cS: Ivkman; Urban, Ark. Hot. 2Qk' : 59
1926.
A tree, the trunk as much as 10 cm. in diameter, the younx branches very minutely i)ilose, resinous at the ape., more or less incrusted below with yellowish-white resin, the older branches terete, their internodes 5-12 mm. lonj;; stipules l.S mm. lon^, suborbicular, connate near the base; petioles stout, 2-4 mm. long; leaf-blades obovate or obovate-elliptic, 1.7-.3 cm. long, 0.8-1.6 cm. wide, subobtuse, acute at the base, coriaceous, dark-green on the upper surface, the costa impressed, the lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side, prominulous, the blades paler beneath, the nerves prominulous; inflorescences terminal, subsessile, cymosely 3-flowered, the flowers subsessile; hypanthium subcylindric, slightly ampliate above; caly.x truncate, 1.2 mm. long; corolla white, 9 mm. long, the tube ampliate above, 4.5 mm. tjroad in the throat, the lobes semi()r1)icular, 1.5 mm. long; stamens inserted slightly below the middle of the corolla-tube, the filaments glabrous, the anthers oblong-linear, subemarginate at each end, 1.5 mm. long; style glabrous.
Type loc.m.ity: Dense mountain forest near Nouvelle Touraine, Morne de la Sclle, Haul, in eruptive soil, altitude 1700 m.
DisTRiBUTio.Ni: Mountains of Haiti, at elevations of 900-1700 meters.