28 BRITTON: STUDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 
Dr. Shafer’s notes show this to be a shrub about 1.3 m. high, 
with white flowers. 
25. RONDELETIA RUGELI Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 397. 1912 
Rondeletia Potiaet microphylla Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 128. 1866. - 
TYPE LOCALITY: near Matanzas. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known definitely only from the type locality. 
Rugel’s label indicates that this is a shrub growing in rocks. 
The species is related to the following one. Grisebach considered 
the plant to be the same as R. Berteriana A. Rich. (not DC.), 
which was collected at La Cabana, Havana. R. Berteriana DC., 
of Hispaniola, is clearly different. 
26. RONDELETIA Comssii Greenm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis 7: 427, 
bl. 34. 1897 
TYPE LOCALITY: Calicita [Santa Clara]. 
DisTRIBUTION: Hillsides, cliffs and rocky shores, Santa Clara; 
Havana. Endemic. 
Plants with identical foliage have calyx-lobes ovate or lanceo- 
late; Dr. Greenman’s original description indicates that they 
may even be linear. A fruiting specimen from Bahia Honda, 
Pinar del Rio (Wilson 9409), is doubtfully referred to this species. 
27. RONDELETIA CAMARIOCA C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales. Acad. 
Habana 6: 102. 1869 
TYPE LOCALITY: Savannas of Camarioca [Matanzas]. 
DISTRIBUTION: Serpentine barrens and savannas, in dry soil, 
Camaguey; Santa Clara; Matanzas. Endemic. 
28. Rondeletia insularis sp. nov. 
A much-branched shrub, about 2 m. high, the twigs densely 
appressed-pubescent. Stipules triangular-ovate, connate, pubes- 
cent, persistent, 2-3 mm. long; leaves gray-green, oblong or ob- 
veined and strigillose beneath, the stout petioles about 1.5 mm. 
long; peduncles solitary in the axils, stout, about as long as the 
petioles, 1-flowered, pubescent; bractlets ovate, acute, I mm. long; 
capsule globose, densely puberulent, 4-5 mm. in diameter; calyx- 
lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 1 mm. long. 
