STANDLEY TREES AND SHRUBS OF MEXICO 1355 



7. Rondeletia amoena (Planch.) Hemsl. Diag. PI. Mex. 26. 1879. 

 Rogiera amoena Planch. Fl. Serr. Jard. 5: 442. 1849. 



Chiapas. Guatemala to Panama. 



Shrub or small tree, the branchlets villous-pilose; leaves 6 to 15 cm. long, 

 usually abruptly short-acuminate; inflorescence cymose-corymbose, 5 to 18 cm. 

 broad; corolla pink or pinkish, densely appressed-pilose. 



8. Rondeletia langlassei Standi. N. Amer. Fl. 32: 53. 1918. 



Type from the Sierra Madre of Michoacdn or Guerrero, altitude 1,750 meters. 



Shrub or small tree, 3 to 4 meters high, the branchlets appressed-pilose; leaves 

 9 to 12.5 cm. long, acute or attenuate; inflorescence cymose-corymbose, 10 cm. 

 broad; corolla pink, strigillose. 



9. Rondeletia heteranthera T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 387. 



1913. 



Type from Banos del Carrizal, Veracruz. 



Shrub; leaves short-petiolate, ovate or broadly ovate, 6 to 10 cm. long, acumi- 

 nate; panicles 2 to 4 cm. long; corolla minutely strigillose, the tube 2.5 to 3 mm. 

 long. 



10. Rondeletia capitellata Hemsl. Diag. PL Mex. 28. 1879. 

 Veracruz and Oaxaca. 



Shrub or tree, 6 meters high or less; leaves short-petiolate, ovate to narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong, 7.5 to 12 cm. long, acute or acuminate; corolla red, strigillose, 

 the tube 6 to 8 mm. long. 



11. Rondeletia septicidalis Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 45: 403. 1910. 

 Type from Chicharras, Chiapas. 



Shrub; leaves petiolate, broadly ovate to lanceolate, 5 to 16 cm. long, abruptly 

 acuminate or attenuate, acute at base, glabrous above; panicles 6 to 10 cm. 

 long; corolla red, the tube 6 to 8 mm. long. 



12. Rondeletia laniflora Benth. PI. Hartw. 85. 1841. 



Mountains of Chiapas. Guatemala; type from Sierra de las Nubes. 



Shrub, 2 to 3 meters high; leaves petiolate, obovate to narrowly lance-elliptic, 

 5.5 to 13 cm. long, attentuate or abruptly acuminate, acute or attenuate at 

 base, glabrate above; panicles 4 to 7 cm. long; corolla white-tomentose, the tube 

 12 to 15 mm. long. 



13. Rondeletia bourgaei Standi. N. Amer. Fl. 32: 56. 1918. 

 Type from San Crist6bal, region of Orizaba, Veracruz. 



Shrub; leaves petiolate, obovate to oblong-elliptic, 6.5 to 11.5 cm. long, acute 

 or acuminate at base and apex; panicles 6 to 10 cm. long. 



14. Rondeletia villosa Hemsl. Diag. PI. Mex. 27. 1879. 



Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco; type from San Pedro Nolasco, Oaxaca. 



Shrub; leaves petiolate, oblong-elliptic or ovate, 10 to 25 cm. long, acuminate, 

 acute at base, sparsely pilose above; panicles 15 to 24 cm. long; corolla white, 

 lanate. 



15. Rondeletia buddleoides Benth. PI. Hartw. 69. 1840. 

 Rondeletia affinis Hemsl. Diag. PI. Mex. 28. 1879. 



Veracruz and Oaxaca; type from Llano Verde, Oaxaca. Guatemala to 

 Panama. 



Shrub, 1 to 1.5 meters high; leaves short-petiolate, oval-elliptic to lanceolate, 

 5 to 12 cm. long, acute or long-acuminate, obtuse to long-acuminate at base, 

 glabrate above; panicles 10 to 15 cm. long; corolla white-tomentose. 



