Megastigma galeottii Baill.

Megastigma galeottii Baillon, Adansonia 10 : 331. 1872
Fagara pumila Engler, Bot. Jahrb. 21 : Beibl. 54: 21. 1896.
A small straggling shrub with often approximate, stout, crooked, grayish branches and flexuous twigs, the younger parts densely canescent-pilose ; leaves at the ends of the branchlets, 1-2 cm. long, the petioles, rachis, and lower surfaces of the leaflets cinereouspilose ; rachis wingless or sometimes very narrowly winged ; leaflets 5 or 7, subcoriaceous, the lateral ones sessile or subsessile, obliquely ovate to orbicular, 3-7 mm. long, 2.5-6 mm. broad, commonly rounded and occasionally emarginate at the apex, cuneate to obliquely rounded at the base, the terminal leaflet usually slightly larger, obovate-cuneate to suborbicular or subcordate ; flowers white, in short, terminal, few-flowered racemes ; sepals triangular or triangular-ovate, ciliate ; petals 2-2.5 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad ; fruit solitary or paired, long-pedicelled, pyriform or subglobose, 2.5-3 mm. in diameter.
Type locality : Cactus-abounding plains on the Cordillera of Oaxaca. Distribution : Puebla and Oaxaca.