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7. Rondeletia alaternoides A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cub. II: 



13. 1850 



Type locality: Mountains near Santiago [Oriente]. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 Urban states (Symb. Ant. 1: 419) that the inflorescence of 

 this species is terminal, not axillary as first described. 



8. Rondeletia subglabra Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 



1: 418. 1899 



Type locality: Near Santiago, at 1,400 m. elevation [Oriente]. 

 Distribution: Mountains of Oriente. Endemic. 



9. Rondeletia brachycarpa (Griseb.) C. Wright; Sauvalle, 



Anales Acad. Habana 6: 122. 1869 



Ferdinandea brachycarpa Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 505. 



1862. 



Type locality: Thickets near Santa Catalina [Oriente]. 



Distribution: Thickets and hillsides, Oriente, Camaguey, 

 Santa Clara, Havana, Pinar del Rio: Hispaniola. 



Referred by Combs to R. trifolia Jacq. 



10. Rondeletia stellata (Griseb.) C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales 



Acad. Habana. 6: 122. 1869 



Ferdinandea stellata Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 505. 1862. 

 Type locality: Pine-lands near Monte Verde [Oriente]. 

 Distribution: Mountains of northern Oriente. Endemic. 



11. Rondeletia angustata C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. 



Habana 6: 122. 1869 



Ferdinandea angustata C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 127. 



1866. 



Type locality: In bogs near Toscano. 



Distribution: Arroyos and barrens, Santa Clara, Matanzas, 

 Pinar del Rio. Endemic. 



12. Rondeletia canellaefolia sp. nov. 



A glabrous shrub about 2.5 m. high, the twigs rather stout. 

 Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, oppo- 



