Guapira cuspidata (Heimerl) Lundell

Torrubia cuspidata (Heimerl) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb
18: 100. 1916.
Pisonia cuspidata Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 628. 1896.
Tree, 6 meters high, the branches divaricate, yellowish-brown, rugulose, glabrous, the branchlets rufo-puberulent, leafy at the apex; petioles 1-2.5 cm. long; leaf-blades lance-elliptic or ovate, broadest below the middle, 11.5-15 cm. long, 4.8-7 cm, wide, subdecurrent at the base, gradually or abruptly acuminate or attenuate at the apex, usually subcuspidate, with an obtuse or acute acumen, densely ferrugino-puberulent when young, glabrate and dull in age, thin-coriaceous, the lateral veins prominent, 6-9 on each side, arcuate, laxly anastomosing near the plane margins; peduncles stout, 5-7 cm. long, terminal, the inflorescence cymose, many-flowered, dense, the branches rufo-puberulent, ascending, the ultimate cymules 3-manyflowered, the flowers sessile or rarely on pedicels 1-3 mm. long, the bractlets ovate-triangular, 1 mm. long, puberulent; staminate perianth obconic, 3-4 mm. long, rufo-puberulent, the limb shortly 5-dentate, the teeth triangular, obtuse; stamens 7, 6-8 mm. long; pistillate perianth oblong-ovoid, 2.5-3 mm. long; fruit not known.
Type locality: Along the Caroni River, Trinidad. Distribution: Grenada and Trinidad.