Guettarda combsii Urb.

Guettarda combsii Urban, Symb. Ant. 6: 48. 1909
Guellarda longiflora Griseh. CsLt.¥. Cub. ]3l. 1866. Not G. longijlora Griseh. 1861. Guettarda scabra var. Seleriana Loesener, Repert. Sp. Nov. 18: 361. 1922. Guettarda Seleriana Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 23: 1384. 1926.
A tree, reported to attain a height of 18 meters, the trunk as much as 60 cm. in diameter, the branchlets terete, gray or brownish, when young ferruginous-pilosulous with ascending or spreading hairs, the internodes mostly short; stipules dimorphous, those at the base of the branchlets ovate-oblong, 7-8 mm. long, obtuse or subobtuse, the others oblong or lanceolate, 8-14 mm. long, filiform-acuminate, pilose outside, more or less persistent; leaves opposite, the slender petioles 1-6 cm. long, pilosulous or puberulent; leaf -blades very variable, rounded-oval, oval, rounded-ovate, oval-oblong, or broadly oval-obovate, 7-21 cm. long, 4—13 cm. wide, rounded and very abruptly short-acuminate at the apex or obtuse or acutish, rounded to deeply and narrowly cordate at the base, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, green above, dull or sublustrous, glabrous or pilosulous on the veins, the costa and nerves prominulous but often depressed, the veins usually impressed, paler beneath or sometimes green, usually densely and minutely pilosulous with mostly spreading hairs, especially in the areoles, the lateral nerves prominent, 8-11 on each side, straight or subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 40-50 degrees, the veins prominent, parallel, more or less reticulate, the margin usually plane; cymes once or twice bifid, the slender peduncles 5-15 cm. long, pilosulous, the branches 1-5 cm. long, 5-many-flowered, the flowers sessile, the bractlets linear, 3-5 mm. long, long-persistent; calyx and hypanthium densely pilosulous or sericeous, the calyx 3-3.5 mm. long, more or less bilobate; corolla white, the tube 16-18 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose outside, the 6 or 7 lobes one fourth to one third as long as the tube; ovary 4— 5-celled; fruit globose, 6-8 mm. in diameter, densely and minutely tomentulose.
Type locality: Cienagiiita. Santa Clara. Cuba.
Distributio.v: Cuba and the Isle of Pines; Yucatan to British Honduras and Petcn, Guatemala; usually in forest.