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long, unequal, red, 3—5-nerved; corolla red, strigillose-pilose outside, glabrous within, the tube 
15-17 mm. long, naked in the throat, the 4 lobes rounded, 3 mm. long; anthers included. 
TYPE LOCALITY: In forests, La Palma, Costa Rica, at an altitude of 1460 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
V. Hondurenses. Leaves large, thin, loosely white-tomentose beneath. Stipules large, 
thin, erect. Inflorescence terminal, cymose-corymbose, many-flowered, the flowers 5-parted; 
bracts large; calyx-lobes large, narrow; corolla very large, sericeous outside, the throat naked. 
39. Rondeletia hondurensis Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 27: 335. 1899. 
Shrub, the branches stout, terete, densely pilose-sericeous with white or fulvous hairs; 
stipules 7-10 mm. long, ovate-triangular, 1-3-cuspidate, erect, persistent, thin, brown, densely 
sericeous; leaves opposite, the petioles 2-4 mm. long, the blades ovate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, 
or obovate-oblong, 10-16 cm. long, 3—5.5 cm. wide, acute at the base, subabruptly acuminate 
to attenuate at the apex, thin, dark-green above and short-pilose, beneath densely arachnoid- 
tomentose, sericeous along the veins, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins slender, 
6-8 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an acute angle; inflorescence terminal, cymose- 
corymbose, sessile, with usually 3 dense head-like cymes, these many-flowered, short-peduncu- 
late, the flowers sessile; bracts lanceolate, about 1.5 cm. long, pubescent like the leaves; hypan- 
thium densely sericeous, obovoid, 5-6 mm. long; calyx-lobes 5, unequal, lance-linear, 10-14 
mm. long, attenuate, erect; corolla densely sericeous outside, the tube stout, 2-2.5 cm. long, 
about 2.5 mm. thick, dilated above, the throat naked, the 5 lobes rounded-obovate, 1 cm. 
long; anthers 3 mm. long; style short-exserted. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Rio Chamelecén, Santa Barbara, Honduras, at an altitude of 300 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
VI. Stellatae. Leaves of medium size, usually coriaceous and glabrous, sometimes pubes- 
cent. Stipules small, thick, erect. Inflorescence terminal, cymose or paniculate. few- or many- 
flowered, the flowers 4- or 5-parted; calyx-lobes small; corolla of medium size, usually glabrous 
outside, sometimes strigillose, the throat naked. Capsule large, globose or pyriform. Seeds 
winged. 
40. Rondeletia brachycarpa (Griseb.) C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anal. 
Acad. Habana 6: 122. 1869. 
Ferdinandea brachycarpa Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 505. 1862. 
Shrub, 3-4 meters high, the branches stout, terete, dark-brown or grayish, hirtellous or 
puberulent when young, the internodes usually very short; stipules triangular-subulate, 1-2 
mm. long, erect, persistent, thick, brown; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-7 mm. long, 
strigillose, the blades oval, elliptic-oblong, oblong, or obovate, 2-11 cm. long, 1-4.5 em. wide, 
obtuse to attenuate at the base, acutish to rounded at the apex, coriaceous, dark-green above, 
lustrous, scaberulous, beneath paler, hirtellous or scaberulous, the costa stout and prominent, 
the lateral veins prominent or sometimes obsolete, 4-8 on each side, arcuate, divergent at an 
obtuse angle, the margins often revolute; inflorescence terminal, the flowers few or numerous, 
sessile or short-pedicellate, in small pedunculate cymes, these arranged in a pedunculate pani- 
cle 2.5—8 cm. long; bracts and bractlets minute; hypanthium densely whitish-strigillose; calyx- 
lobes 4, oval or oblong, about 1 mm. long, rounded or obtuse, erect; corolla white-strigillose 
outside, the tube 5-6 mm. long, slender below, dilated above, naked in the throat, the 4 lobes 
rounded, spreading, about 2 mm. long; capsule subglobose, 6-7 mm. long, glabrate, reddish- 
brown, coarsely lenticellate; seeds compressed, about 3 mm. leng, yellowish, winged, the wing 
irregularly laciniate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Thickets near Santa Catalina, Oriente, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Thickets and hillsides, Cuba and Hispaniola. 
