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IX. Odoratae. Leaves large or of medium size, coriaceous, pubescent. Stipules erect. 
Inflorescence terminal or partly axillary, few- or many-flowered, usually cymose-corymbose, the 
flowers 5-parted; calyx-lobes elongate, sometimes foliaceous; corolla large or small, pubescent 
outside, the throat naked. Capsule globose, small or of medium size. Seeds angulate or 
winged. 
54. Rondeletia azuensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 543. 1913. 
Tree, the branches terete, brownish-black, shortly appressed-pilosulous when young, the 
internodes 1—2.5 cm. long; stipules triangular-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 3-6 mm. long, 
erect, shortly appressed-pilose; leaves opposite, the petioles 1.5—3 mm. long, the blades ovate, 
obovate, or oval, 3-5 cm. long, 1.8-3 cm. wide, obtuse at the base or subacuminate, obtusely 
short-acuminate at the apex, thick-coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath strigose-pilose along 
the nerves and elsewhere minutely pilosulous, the venation subprominent beneath, impressed 
above, the lateral veins 3—5 on each side, ascending at an angle of about 60°; inflorescence 
terminal and axillary, the terminal inflorescences racemose, sessile, few-flowered, the axillary 
ones 3-flowered, on peduncles 1—1.5 cm. long, the pedicels 1-3 mm. long; bracts 4-7 mm. long; 
hypanthium very shortly appressed-pilose; calyx-lobes 5, linear, spatulate-linear, or oblong, 4-7 
mim. long, obtuse or acutish; capsule globose, 5—6.5 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LocALiIty: Culo de Maco, Province of Azua, Santo Domingo, at an altitude of 2225 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
55. Rondeletia heterochroa Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 394. 1912. 
Branches terete, brown, elenticellate or obscurely lenticellate, shortly sericeous-pilose 
when young, the internodes 1—2 cm. long; stipules triangular or lanceolate, 2 mm. long, acumi- 
nate, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, the petioles 1.5—3 mm. long, the blades ovate or elliptic, 
2.5—4 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, acute or subobtuse at the base, acuminate at the apex, thick- 
coriaceous, lustrous, olivaceous above and glabrous or nearly so, paler beneath, thinly appressed- 
pilosulous, the costa impressed above, the lateral veins 3 or 4 on each side, ascending at an angle 
of 45°—50°; flowers solitary or few at the ends of short branchlets, sessile or on pedicels 1.5 mm. 
long; bracts foliaceous; hypanthium short-sericeous; calyx-lobes 4-6, linear or oblanceolate, 
2-4.5 mm. long, acute; corolla densely pilosulous outside, the tube cylindric, 7 mm. long, 
searcely 1 mm. thick, annular-thickened in the throat, the lobes suborbicular, one third as 
long as the tube or shorter, pilosulous within; anthers included, the filaments about 0.7 mm. 
long; capsule globose, about 4 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Province of Barahona, Santo Domingo. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
56. Rondeletia odorata Jacq. Enum. Pl. Carib. 16. 1760. 
Rondeletia obovata 1. Syst. ed. 12. 163. 1767. [Typographical error for R. odorata.] 
Rondeletia coccinea Moc. & Sessé; DC. Prodr. 4: 408, assynonym. 1830. 
Rondeletia speciosa Lodd. Bot. Cab. pl. 1893. 1832. 
Rondeletia rigida Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 505. 1862. 
Shrub, 0.6-2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, reddish-brown or grayish, densely 
fulvous- or ferruginous-hirtellous when young; stipules triangular or triangular-lanceolate, 
2-10 mm. long, attenuate or cuspidate, erect, persistent, brown, sericeous outside; leaves op- 
posite, the petioles stout, 2-7 mm. long, strigose, the blades oval, oval-oblong, oblong, or 
obovate-oblong, 2-10 cm. long, 1—-4.5 em. wide, obtuse to subcordate at the base, rounded to 
acute at the apex, thick-coriaceous, lustrous above and usually very scabrous, beneath hir- 
tellous, strigose along the veins, sometimes glabrate in age, often rugose, the costa very stout 
and prominent, the lateral veins stout, prominent, 3-6 on each side, ascending usually at an 
acute angle, the margins commonly revolute; inflorescence terminal, cymose-corymbose, the 
peduncles stout, 3 cm. long or shorter, the cymes few- or many-flowered, dense, the pedicels 
1 em. long or shorter; bracts linear to oval, often foliaceous, the bractlets linear; hypanthium 
densely pilose; calyx-lobes 5, linear or spatulate-linear, 3-6 mm. long, obtuse or acute, sparsely 
pilose, erect; corolla bright orange-red, minutely sericeous or hirtellous outside, the tube slender, 
