Malagueto hembra Slender tree, to 19 (25) m tall; branches clustered toward apex of tree, arcuate, ascending; stems when young pilose, in age dark, glabrate, and lenticellate. Petioles pilose, 3-5 mm long; blades lanceolate, acuminate, acute to obtuse at base, 3-6 cm long, 8-10 (15) mm wide, stiff, glabrous above, sericeous below. Flowers ca 1 cm long, in short axillary clusters of 1-5 each, sweetly aromatic; pedicels very short, bracteate; sepals 3, ovate, to 2.3 mm long, connate at base, sericeous outside, glabrous inside; petals 6, valvate, greenish-white and +/- erect at anthesis, oblong, blunt at apex, the outer 3 to 11 mm long and 2.5 mm wide, sericeous outside, the inner 3 slightly shorter and much narrower; stamens greenish, ca 1.3 mm long; style triangular-conic, to 5.3 mm long, white, fleshy, soon deciduous; stigma simple. Monocarps irregular, ca 1.5 times longer than wide, to 1.2 cm long and 7 mm wide, rounded at both ends, orange to red, (1) 2 (3)-seeded, the short stipe off-center; seeds ovoid, black, ca 6 mm long. Croat 4868, 8418. Guatemala to southern Brazil. In Panama, ecologically variable; a typical component of tropical dry forest (Holdridge & Budowski, 1956) and tropical moist forest (Tosi, 1971), but known also from premontane dry forest in Coclé from premontane moist forest in Panama, from premontane wet forest in the Canal Zone and Panama, and from tropical wet forest in Coclé See Figs. 240 and 241.