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nent, the lateral veins few, the slender petioles 8-15 mm. 
long; inflorescence axillary, short-peduncled, few~-several-flowered, 
densely pubescent; bractlets ovate, acute, about I mm. long; 
calyx-teeth ovate, short; capsule globose, about 3 mm. in diameter, 
pubescent. 
Gran Piedra, Oriente, at about 1,500 m. alt. (Shafer 9039). 
Apparently the same as a part of C. Wright 1266, recorded by 
Griesbach as Rondeletia Poitaet 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. I912 
Type Locauity: 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 beneat 
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. . 
