Comarostaphylis polifolia subsp. minor (Small) Diggs

Comarostaphylis minor Small, sp. no v
A shrub with glabrous or nearly glabrous twigs; leaf -blades linear to linear-spatulate,
1.5-2.5 cm. long, obtuse or acutish, thinnish, glabrous, or merely puberulent beneath when
young, entire, flat, shining above, paler and dull beneath, short-petioled ; panicles closely
flowered, the rachis and pedicels minutely pale-pubescent; calyx 3-3.5 mm. wide, the lobes
deltoid to triangular-lanceolate, acute or acutish, ciliolate; corolla 4-5 mm. long; stamens
2.5-3 mm. long, the filaments sparingly villous above the dilated base; drupes spheroidal,
3-4 mm. in diameter.
Tjrpe collected near Miguihuana, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Tune 10, 1898, E. W. Nelson 4469 (U.S. Nat. Herb.).
Distribution: Tamaulipas.