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about as long as the hypanthium; corolla white, appressed-pilose outside, the tube slender, 
about 1 cm. long, puberulent within, the throat densely yellow-pilose, the 5 lobes ovate, 
obtuse, 2-3 mm. long; anthers oblong, 2 mm. long. 
Type LocaLity: Along the Rio Porés, Costa Rica, altitude about 2000 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Vicinity of the type locality. 
9. Rondeletia cordata Benth. Pl. Hartw. 85. 1841. 
Rogiera cordata Planch. FI. Serres 5: 442. 1849. 
Shrub, 1—2.5 meters high, or a small tree, the branches stout, terete or subangulate, 
reddish-brown or grayish, sparsely strigose when young; stipules oblong-triangular, 6-15 mm. 
long, obtuse, reflexed, foliaceous, strigose outside; leaves opposite, sessile or nearly so, the 
blades narrowly ovate-oblong, ovate, or ovate-oval, 7-13 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide, cordate or 
subcordate at the base, acute to acuminate at the apex, subcoriaceous, green above and glab- 
rous, sublustrous, paler beneath, sparsely strigose along the veins or glabrous, the costa stout, 
prominent, the lateral veins prominent, 6—8 on each side, straight or subarcuate, ascending at 
an angle of 45° or more; inflorescence terminal and axillary, cymose-corymbose, 5-15 em. 
broad, the peduncles 1—7 cm. long, the cymes usually many-flowered and dense, the flowers 
short-pedicellate; bracts often large and foliaceous, the bractlets minute; hypanthium strigil- 
lose; calyx-lobes 5, rounded to oblong, unequal, 0.5-1 mm. long, obtuse, erect; corolla pink 
or dull-red, thinly strigillose outside, the tube stout, 8-10 mm. long, hirsute within, densely 
yellow-pilose in the throat, the 5 lobes rounded, 2 mm. long, puberulent within; anthers and 
style exserted or included; capsule globose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, reddish-brown, strigillose; 
seeds numerous, minute, compressed, brownish-yellow. 
TYPE LocaLity: Near Guatemala City, Guatemala. 
DISTRIBUTION: Guatemala. 
10. Rondeletia amoena (Planch.) Hemsl. Diag. Pl. Nov. 26. 1879. 
Rogiera amoena Planch. Fl. Serres 5: 442. 1849. 
Rogiera Menechma Planch. FI. Serres 5: 442. 1849. 
Rondeletia versicolor J. Smith, Bot. Mag. pl. 4579. 1851. 
Rogiera versicolor Lindl]. & Paxt. Fl. Gard. 2: 69. 1851. 
Rondeletia latifolia Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1852: 43. 1852. 
Rondeletia rugosa Benth.; Oerst Vidensk. Meddel. 1852: 43. 1852. 
Rogiera latifolia Decaisne, Rev. Hortic. IV. 2: 121. 1853. 
?Rondeletia Schumanniana K. Krause, Bot. Jahrb. 40: 315. 1908. 
Shrub or small tree, the branches stout, terete or subangulate, reddish-brown or grayish, 
densely villous-pilose when young with fulvous hairs; stipules triangular-oblong, 10-16 mm. 
long, obtuse, densely appressed-pilose, reflexed, foliaceous; leaves opposite, the petioles very 
stout, 2-10 mm. long, densely pilose, the blades ovate-oval, oval, or oblong-ovate, 6-15 cm. 
long, 3.5-10 em. wide, rounded or subcordate at the base, usually abruptly short-acuminate 
at the apex, coriaceous, bright-green, glabrous or thinly pilose above, densely short-pilose 
beneath with fulvous hairs, the costa stout, prominent, the lateral veins slender or stout, promi- 
nent, 5-9 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 45° or more, the secondary veins 
often prominently reticulate, the blades often rugose; inflorescence terminal and axillary, 
cymose-corymbose, 5-18 cm. broad, stout-pedunculate, the cymes often numerous, densely 
many-flowered, the flowers sessile or short-pedicellate; bracts often large and foliaceous, the 
bractlets minute; hypanthium densely fulvous-pilose; calyx-lobes 5, unequal, oblong or obo- 
vate-oblong, 1-2 mm. long, obtuse, erect or spreading; corolla pink or pinkish, densely ap- 
pressed-pilose outside with fulvous hairs, the tube stout, 8-12 mm. long, densely yellow-pilose 
in the throat, the 5 lobes rounded, 2-2.5 mm. long, spreading, puberulent within; style 
exserted or included; anthers included; capsule globose, 5-6 mm. in diameter, densely pilose; 
seeds compressed, angulate. 
TyPE LOcaLIty: Described from cultivated plants of Guatemalan origin. 
DISTRIBUTION: Chiapas to Panama. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Fl. Serres pl. 442; Lindl. & Paxt. Fl. Gard. f. 154; Bot. Mag. pl. 4579; Jard. 
Fleur. 2: pl. 112; Rev. Hortic. 1V. 2: $l. 7. 
