26 Britton: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
17. RONDELETIA NIMANIMAE Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 
I: 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, 
-—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 ee above, 2.5-3 mm. long; capsule subglobose, 
4-5 mm. in diamete 
Sancti Spiritus jenn Santa Clara; type from Sierra del 
Caballete (Leon & Clement 6560). 
19. RONDELETIA CHAMAEBUXIFOLIA Griseb. Cat. Pl. 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 = pubescent beneath, the midvein rather promi- 
