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bose, few-flowered, the pedicels stout, 2-4 mm. long; bracts minute; calyx-lobes 4, oblong, 
about 1 mm. long, obtuse, spreading; capsule oblong-pyriform, about 1 cm. long, reddish- 
brown; seeds compressed, 3-4 mm. long, yellowish-brown, appendaged at each end and winged, 
the wings laciniate. : 
TYPE LOCALITY: Coe’s Camp, Ensefiada de Siguanea, Isle of Pines, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
45. Rondeletia angustata C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anal. Acad. Habana 
G7 122.." 1869: 
Ferdinandea angustata C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 127. 1866. 
Shrub or tree, sometimes 9 meters high (?), glabrous throughout, the branches stout, 
reddish- or grayish-brown, the internodes mostly very short; stipules broadly triangular, 1-2 
mim. long, acute, erect, persistent, brown; leaves opposite or quaternate, the petioles stout, 
3-10 mm. long, the blades oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly obovate-oblong, 3-9 cm. long, 1— 
2.5 em. wide, cuneate at the base, acute to rounded at the apex, coriaceous, lustrous, paler 
beneath, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins mostly obsolete, the margins sub- 
revolute; inflorescence terminal, the peduncles stout, 0.5-5 cm. long, angulate, the flowers 
cymose, short-pedicellate, the cymes paniculate; bracts minute; calyx-lobes 4, ovate-oblong, 
about 1 mm. long, acute, erect, much shorter than the hypanthium; corolla red, the tube 5-6 
mm. long, tapering from the base to the apex, naked in the throat, the 4 lobes oval, spreading, 
2 mm. long; anthers and style included; capsule subglobose, about 7 mm. long, dark-brown, 
lenticellate; seeds flat, 2-3 mm. long, brown, appendaged at each end and winged, the wing 
irregularly laciniate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Swamps near Tascano, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Barrens and along arroyos, central and western Cuba. 
46. Rondeletia canellaefolia Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 24. 
POL7. 
Shrub, about 2.5 meters high, glabrous throughout, the branches stout; leaves speae or 
verticillate, the petioles stout, 5-15 mm. long, the blades elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblance- 
olate, 5-10 cm. long, 1.5—3 cm. wide, cuneate or attenuate at the base, obtuse or rounded at 
the apex, coriaceous, dark-green and lustrous above, paler and dull beneath, the costa promi- 
nent, the lateral veins few, obscure, distant, slender; inflorescence terminal and axillary, few- 
flowered, the peduncles 1.5—5 cm. long, the pedicels short and stout; bracts minute, triangular; 
calyx-lobes 4, ovate, obtuse, 1-1.5 mm. long; corolla about 6 mm. long, glabrous outside; cap- 
sule pyriform, 1-1.5 cm. long. 
‘TYPE LOCALITY: Woods and on cliffs, Sierra Nipe, near Woodfred, Oriente, Cuba, altitude 450 
to 550 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
VII. Tinifoliae. Leaves of medium size, coriaceous, strigillose. Stipules small, erect. 
Inflorescence terminal or partly axillary, corymbose, few-flowered, the flowers 4-parted; calyx- 
lobes large, broad; corolla large, strigillose outside, the throat naked. Capsule linear-oblong, 
cylindric, very large. Seeds exalate, appendaged at each end. 
47. Rondeletia tinifolia Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 129. 1866. 
Shrub, about 3 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish-brown, strigillose when 
young but soon glabrate; stipules triangular, 3-4 mm. long, cuspidate or bicuspidate, erect, 
persistent, thick, brown, strigose; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 6-18 mm. long, strigillose, 
the blades oval, ovate, or oval-elliptic, 4-9 cm. long, 1.8-4.5 cm. wide, rounded to short- 
acuminate at the base, broadly rounded to very acute at the apex, coriaceous, sparsely and 
very minutely strigillose, dark-green and lustrous above, pale beneath; inflorescence terminal 
or partly axillary, corymbose, the corymbs few-flowered, pedunculate, 3-5 cm. long, the flowers 
sessile or long-pedicellate; bracts often foliaceous, the bractlets mostly minute, triangular to 
