C. rufa (Vell.) Reiss. var. glandulosa (Perk.) M. C. Johnston Spanish elm Tree, (3) 6-20 (40) m tall, to ca 50 cm dbh, +/- glabrous but with ferruginous, +/- antrorse puberulence on younger parts including peduncles, pedicels, and cupules; bark moderately coarse in age. Leaves opposite or nearly so; stipules subulate, 3-10 mm long, caducous; petioles 0.5-18 cm long; blades +/- ovate-elliptic, acute to short-acuminate at apex, rounded to very shallowly cordate at base, 7-15 (25) cm long, 2.5-10 cm wide, the lower surface dull, often inconspicuously pubescent on veins and with some moderately large submarginal glands, the upper surface shiny, the margin weakly revolute, markedly so near petiole. Thyrses axillary, 1-5 cm long; peduncles 1-7 mm long; pedicels 1-4 mm long, 3-12 mm long in fruit; flowers 10-50, 5-parted; petals, sepals, and stamens borne on apex of floral cup, the cup 2.5-3 mm wide; sepals yellowish, +/- triangular, ca 1 mm long, with a prominent medial ridge inside; petals +/- oblong, ca 1 mm long; stamens opposite and slightly longer than petals; anthers less than 0.5 mm long; disk prominent, filling floral cup at anthesis and hiding the 3-celled ovary; style much shorter than stamens, tripartite one-fourth to two-thirds its length. Capsules explosively dehiscent, +/- globose, 6-8 mm long, dark brown or black, glabrous, enveloped only slightly at base by the cup and disk at maturity; endocarp hard, separating into 3 dry endocarpids; seeds 1-3, +/- obovate, 4-5 mm long, dark brown, shiny. Croat 7349, Wetmore & Abbe 165. Apparently rare, collected only along the shore but no doubt growing in the forest as well. Flowers in the earliest part of the dry season, from December to January. The fruits mature from February to April.