Erythroxylon minutifolium

Erythroxylon minutifolium Griseb. Cat. PI. Cuba 41. 1866 A shrub with stiff curved branches and numerous short spur-like branchlets, densely leafy. Leaves orbicular, rigid, 6 mm. long or less, refuse at the apex, obtuse or subcordate at the base, bright-green and shining above, dull-green beneath, rather prominently few-veined, the petioles less than 0.8 mm. long, the short ovate stipules mostly imbricated ; pedicels solitary in the axils, about one half as long as the leaves ; calyx cleft to about the middle, its lobes triangular-ovate ; petals about 2 mm. long, oblong ; drupes oblong, obtuse at both ends, 5 mm. long.
Type locality : Western Cuba. Distribution : Cuba ; Haiti.