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oblong, 0.8—3 cm. long, 0.4-1.8 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, rounded to acute at the 
apex, thick-coriaceous, gra'yish-green on the upper surface and very scabrous, scaberulous or 
glabrate beneath, the costa stout and prominent, the lateral veins mostly obscure, 3 or 4 on each 
side, the margins often strongly revolute; inflorescence terminal, usually 1-flowered, sometimes 
3-flowered, the peduncles very slender, 1.2—-3 cm. long; bracts foliaceous, oval or oblong, peti- 
olate, the bractlets minute; calyx-lobes 4, linear or linear-spatulate, 2 mm. long, obtuse or 
acutish, erect, strigillose, longer than the hypanthium; corolla dark-purple, puberulent 
outside, the tube slender, 9 mm. long, naked in the throat, the 4 lobes rounded, spreading, 
2 mm. long; capsule globose, 3.5 mm. in diameter, subsulcate, minutely puberulent; seeds 
fusiform, short-appendiculate at each end, pale-brown, rugulose. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Vicinity of Trinidad, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Cliffs and rocky hillsides, Santa Clara, Cuba. 
51. Rondeletia alaternoides A. Rich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11: 13. 
1850. 
Stipules broadly deltoid, short, acute; leaves short-petiolate, the blades usually obovate, 
2.5 cm. long or shorter, 1.2—1.6 cm. wide, abruptly decurrent at the base, obtuse at the apex, 
coriaceous, lustrous, glabrous, the veins reticulate on the upper surface; inflorescence terminal, 
1—3-flowered, tomentulose, the peduncles elongate; hypanthium tomentulose; calyx-lobes 5, 
spatulate-oblong, obtuse, about 1 mm. long; corolla sericeous, 6-8 mm. long, the tube three 
times as long as the calyx-lobes, the lobes oval, obtuse. 
‘TYPE LOCALITY: Mountains near Santiago, Oriente, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
52. Rondeletia microphylla Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 127. 1866. 
Shrub, 3-10 dm. high, much branched, the branches stout, terete, brownish, densely 
hirtellous when young; stipules minute, triangular, acute, erect, persistent; leaves opposite or 
ternate, often crowded, the petioles stout, about 1 mm. long, the blades obovate-oblong or 
narrowly elliptic-oblong, 5-16 mm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, cuneate or obtuse at the base, acute or 
obtuse at the apex, thin, densely hirtellous, or glabrate in age, dull-green above, slightly paler 
beneath, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins few, mostly obsolete, the margins plane 
or subrevolute; inflorescence terminal, usually 1-flowered, sometimes 3-flowered, the pedicels 
slender, 2-13 mm. long; bracts elliptic or oblong, foliaceous, petiolate, the bractlets linear; 
hypanthium densely hirtellous; calyx-lobes 5, oblanceolate or spatulate-linear, 3-6 mm. long, 
obtuse, foliaceous, erect; corolla orange-red, hirtellous outside, the tube slender, 8-10 mm. 
long, naked in the throat, the 5 lobes rounded, 3.5-4 mm. long, spreading; capsule globose, 
3-4 mm. in diameter, hirtellous. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Western Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Rocky stream banks, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 
53. Rondeletia Shaferi Urban & Britton; Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 
398. 1912. 
Shrub, 1 meter high, the branches terete, brown or grayish-brown, finely and densely 
hirtellous when young, densely leafy; stipules triangular, 1-2 mm. long, acute, erect, persistent; 
leaves opposite or ternate, the petioles stout, 1-3 mm. long, the blades oval or oval-ovate, 
1—2.5 cm. long, 0.7—1.3 em. wide, rounded to obscurely cordate at the base, acute or obtuse at 
the apex, submucronate, thick-coriaceous, hirtellous along the veins or glabrate, lustrous above, 
paler beneath, the costa stout, prominent beneath, sulcate above, the lateral veins obscure; 
inflorescence terminal, 1—3-flowered, long-pedunculate, the pedicels stout, 5-20 mm. long; 
bractlets linear, 2-3 mm. long; hypanthium minutely whitish-hirtellous; calyx-lobes 5, spatu- 
late-linear, about 3 mm. long, acute, rigid, foliaceous, erect; corolla pink, densely retrorse- 
sericeous outside, the tube stout, 12 mm. long, naked in the throat, the 5 lobes rounded, 2.5 
mm. long, spreading, puberulent inside; anthers and style included; capsule globose, 4-5 mm. 
long, dark-brown, finely hirtellous. 
TyPE LocALity: Along water in savannas near Holguin, Oriente, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
