26 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



17. Rondeletia nimanimae Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 



1: 418. 1899 



Type locality: Near Nimanima, at 800 m. alt. [Oriente]. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



18. Rondeletia Leoni sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree up to 3 m. high, the slender young twigs, 

 the petioles and the inflorescence appressed-pubescent with short, 

 whitish hairs. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 3-8 cm. long, sub- 

 coriaceous, acute, short-acuminate, or some of them obtuse at the 

 apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, flat, or the margins some- 

 what revolute when old, densely pubescent with appressed hairs 

 when young, glabrous, or sparingly pubescent on the veins beneath 

 when old, inconspicuously reticulate- veined, the slender petioles 

 12 mm. long or less; stipules linear-subulate with a broadened 

 base, pubescent, 3-4 mm. long; inflorescence axillary or lateral, 

 4-6 cm. long, 1 -few- flowered, sometimes with a pair of small, 

 leaf-like bracts; pedicels nearly filiform, 1-2 cm. long; bractlets 

 linear-subulate; calyx ovoid-campanulate, densely canescent, its 

 lobes linear or linear-spatulate, 3-4 mm. long; corolla densely 

 white-pubescent without, its tube slender, 10-12 mm. long, 

 cylindric, slightly expanded above, its lobes oblong-orbicular, 

 rounded, deep purple above, 2.5-3 mm. long; capsule subglobose, 

 4-5 mm. in diameter. 



Sancti Spiritus Mountains, Santa Clara; type from Sierra del 



Caballete {Leon & Clement 6560). 



19. Rondeletia chamaebuxifolta Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 128. 



1866 



Rondeletia avenia C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Habana 6: 



121. 1869. 



Type locality: Western Cuba. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality, this not 

 definitely recorded. 



20. Rondeletia intermixta sp. nov. 



A shrub, 1.6 m. high, the young twigs densely strigose-pubes- 

 cent. Stipules triangular-ovate, pubescent, acute, persistent, 

 spreading, about 2 mm. long; leaves oblong, chartaceous. 3-6 cm. 

 long, acute at both ends, dark green and glabrous above, pale 

 green and densely pubescent beneath, the midvein rather promi- 



