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nent, the lateral veins few, the slender petioles 8-15 mm. 

 long; inflorescence axillary, short-ped uncled, few-several-flowered, 

 densely pubescent; bractlets ovate, acute, about 1 mm. long; 

 calyx-teeth ovate, short; capsule globose, about 3 mm. in diameter, 

 pubescent. 



Gran Piedra, Oriente, at about 1,500 m. alt. (Shafer QOjg). 

 Apparently the same as a part of C. Wright 1266, recorded by 

 Griesbach as Rondeletia Poitaei Griseb., but that name (Griseb. 

 Fl. Br. W. I. 328) is a synonym of Stevensia buxifolia Poit., a plant 

 known only from Hispaniola. 



21. Rondeletia lomensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 394. 19 12 



Type locality: Dry serpentine hill, Loma Santa Teresa, 

 near El Yunque, Oriente. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



Dr. Shafer's notes describe this as a shrub about 2.6 m. high 

 with white flowers; the corollas are not shown in the specimens. 



22. Rondeletia baracoensis sp. nov. 



Twigs slender, densely whitish-pubescent when young. Stip- 

 ules triangular-ovate, acute, pubescent, about 2 mm. long; leaves 

 chartaceous, elliptic, 2 cm long or less, rounded or obtuse at the 

 apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, glabrous and obscurely 

 veined above, whitish-tomentulose and reticulate-veined beneath 

 with the primary venation prominent, the petioles 3-5 mm. long; 

 peduncles opposite, rather stout, 1-3-flowered, 3-13 mm. long; 

 bractlets lanceolate, pubescent, somewhat shorter than the calyx; 

 calyx 3 mm. long, its lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, one half 

 as long as the tube; corolla-bud densely white-pubescent. 



Vicinity of Baracoa (Pollard, Palmer & Palmer 245). 



23. Rondeletia rigida Griseb. Mem. Am Acad. II. 8; 505. 



1862 



Type locality: La Madelina [Oriente]. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



24. Rondeletia nipensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 393. 1912. 



Type locality: Sierra Nipe, near Woodfred, Oriente, in pine- 

 lands, 500-650 m. alt. 



Distribution: Pine-lands and deciduous woods of the Sierra 

 Nipe, Oriente. 



