Guarea glabra subsp. excelsa (Kunth) T. D. Penn.

Guarea excelsa H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 7: 227. 1825
''Guarea brachystachya Moc. & Sesse; DC. Prodr. 1: 624. 1824.
Guarea filiform is C. DC in DC. Monog. Phan. 1: 566, at least in part. 1878.
}Guarea fi'liformis pallida C. DC. in DC. Monog. Phan. 1: 566. 1878.
Guarea filiformis cinerascens C. DC. in DC. Monog. Phan. 1: 567. 1878.
Guarea Palmeri Rose; C. DC. Bot. Gaz. 19: 39. 1894.
Guarea virescens C. DC. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 10: 140. 1907.
Guarea Makrinii Blake. Contr. Gray Herb. 53: 57. 1918.
Guarea heterophylla Blake. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 34: 116. 1921.
IGuarea exceha dubia Blake. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 34: 1 16. 1921.
A shrub or tree, sometimes 15 m. tall, the young growth pubescent with appressed hairs; leaves 1-2.9 dm. or more long, the rachis and petioles often more or less strigulose-pubescenwhen young; leaflets 4-6, rather thin, elliptic-ovate to oval or elliptic-obovate, or elliptict oblanceolate, 6-18 cm. long, 2.5-7 cm. broad, obtusely short-pointed or somewhat rounded at the apex, inequilateral and acute at the base, glabrous and lustrous above, paler and bearded in the axils of the veins beneath, finely reticulate-veined on both sides; petiolules 1-5 mm. long; panicles 2.5-4 cm. or more long, the branches densely strigulose; pedicels 1-1.5 mm. long; calyx 4-toothed, about 2 mm. broad, strigillose, the lobes triangular; petals 4, oblongelliptic, 3.5-5 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. broad, puberulent; ovary glabrous; style short; stigma subcapitate; capsule subglobose, 4-celled, 2 cm. long, 2-2.2 cm. broad; seeds ellipsoid.
Type locality: Near La Venta de Acahuitzotla, Guerrero. Distribution: Mexico and Central America.