Malouetia guatemalensis (Müll. Arg.) Standl.

Malouetia guatemalensis (Muell.-Arg.) Standley,
Jour. Wash. Acad. 15: 459. 1925.
Stemmadenia guatemalensis Muell.-Arg. Linnaea 30: 410. 1860.
Malouetia panamensis Van Heurck & Muell.-Arg. in Van Heiuck, Obs. Bot. 185. 1871.
Small tree, 5-10 m. tall or more; leaves firmly membranaceous, oblong-elliptic to ovateelliptic, 6-25 cm. long, 2-10 cm. broad, obtusely subcaudate-actuninate, obtuse at the base, glabrous throughout, the petioles 5-10 mm. long; umbels terminal, or frequently also lateral, bearing relatively numerous small greenishwhite flowers; pedicels 3-5 mm. long, glabrous to very minutely papillate; calyx-lobes ovate, acute to obtuse, subcoriaceous, closely imbricate, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, minutely puberulent-papillate on both sides; corolla salverform, glabroi:s externally, or very minutely papillate toward the orifice, the tube 4^5.5 mm. long, 1.25-1.5 mm. in diameter at the base, abruptly contracted near the middle at the insertion of the stamens, the lobes obliquely lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acuminate, 7-12 mm. long, widely spreading; anthers included, minutely puberulent-papillate dorsally; nectaries about as long as the ovary or slightly shorter; follicles stout, fusiform, rigidly divaricate, 10-13 cm. long, 1-2 cm. in diameter, glabrous.
Type i^ocality: "Mniogalpa," Guatemala.
Distribution; British Honduras and Guatemala to Panama.