Ravenia shaferi P. Wilson

Ravenia shaferi P. Wilson & Bull. Torrey Club A glabrous shrub or tree 4-7 m. tall, with a grayish bark; leaves simple, elliptic to ovate, or somewhat obovate, 3.5-10 cm. long, 1.8-5 cm. broad, sessile or subsessile, entire, more or less revolute-margined, acute or occasionally obtuse at the apex, acute or somewhat rounded at the base, glandular-punctate ; inflorescence 2-6-flowered ; sepals 4, very unequal, the two outer ovate to broadly ovate, 1-1.8 cm. long, 0.6-1.2 cm. broad, the two inner ovate to nearly oval, 5-8 mm. long, 4.5-5.5 mm. broad, all glandular-punctate ; corolla "red," glandular-punctate, the tube cylindric, 1.2-1.5 cm. long, the lobes 4, unequal, oblong to oblong-obovate, 1.4-2 cm. long, 0.8-1 cm. broad ; stamens 4, the two inferior ones fertile, sessile, the two superior ones sterile, linear to subulate, flattened ; disk cup-shaped; ovary 4-lobed, 4-celled, immersed in the disk ; style filiform ; stigma 4-lobed.
Type locality: Alluvial valley of Rio Yamaniguey, Province of Oriente, Cuba. Distribution : Eastern Cuba.