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long as the petioles, the flowers all pedicellate; hypanthium pubescent; calyx-lobes 5, narrowly 
lanceolate, about as long as the hypanthium; corolla glabrous outside, 10-14 mm. long, the 
tube cylindric, crimson, the 5 lobes obovate-orbicular, undulate, tawny-yellow, half as long 
as the tube; anthers sessile near the top of the tube; capsule subglobose, about 7 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Woodlands, eastern slopes of the John Crow Mountains, Jamaica, at an alti- 
tude of 520 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Vicinity of the type locality. 
63. Rondeletia racemosa Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 360. 1797. 
Shrub or tree, 2 meters high, the branches stout, terete or subcompressed, grayish-brown, 
rimose, glabrous; stipules 2-3 mm. long, broadly deltoid or subtruncate, cuspidate, rigid, erect, 
glabrous outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles slender, 1.2—3 cm. long, glabrous, 
the blades elliptic or lance-elliptic, 7-12.5 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acute or acuminate at the 
base, acuminate to attenuate at the apex, glabrous, dark-green above, brownish beneath, the 
costa impressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins obscure above, prominulous or 
obscure beneath, about 7 on each side, arcuate, usually subdivaricate, the margins plane or 
subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, cymose-paniculate, 2.5-5 cm. long, few- or many-flowered, 
the branches glabrous, the peduncles mostly shorter than the petioles, the pedicels stout, 4 mm. 
long or shorter; bracts and bractlets minute, triangular, subulate; hypanthium glabrous or 
nearly so, turbinate; calyx-lobes 5, triangular, minute, less than half as long as the hypan- 
thium, sericeous within; corolla densely retrorse-strigillose outside with whitish hairs, the tube 
clavate, 3 mm. long, the throat annular-thickened, the 5 lobes half as long as the tube, 
puberulent within; capsule globose, 3-4 mm. long, dark-brown, glabrous; seeds flat, 1-1.5 mm. 
long, pale-brown, winged. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mountain forests of Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Jamaica. 
64. Rondeletia laurifolia Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 363. 1797. 
Shrub or tree, 1-12 meters high, the branches stout, terete or subcompressed, grayish- 
brown, rimose, densely and minutely whitish-strigillose when young but soon glabrate, the 
internodes very short; stipules broadly deltoid, 3-4 mm. long, acute or acuminate, rigid, erect, 
sparsely strigillose or glabrous outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 
0.7-1.8 cm. long, minutely strigillose or glabrate, the blades elliptic to elliptic-oval, 8-15 cm. 
long, 3-6.5 cm. wide, obtuse or acute at the base, often abruptly short-acuminate, acute or 
acuminate at the apex, chartaceous-coriaceous, dark-green and lustrous above, glabrous, be- 
neath slightly paler, strigillose along the veins, elsewhere glabrous or nearly so, the veins plane 
or suleate above, the costa stout, prominent beneath, the lateral veins slender, prominulous, 
6-8 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of 45° or more, the margins plane; inflorescence 
axillary, loosely cymose-paniculate, many-flowered, 6-15 cm. long, the branches strigillose, 
the peduncles 1.5—6 cm. long, the flowers sessile or very shortly pedicellate; bracts sometimes 
foliaceous, usually lance-subulate, the bractlets triangular, minute; hypanthium 1—1.3 mm. 
long, subglobose, very densely and minutely whitish-strigillose; calyx-lobes 5, minute, deltoid, 
shorter than the hypanthium, usually glabrate, erect; corolla brownish-yellow, densely whitish- 
tomentulose outside, the tube obconic, 1.5 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, nearly or quite as 
long as the tube, tomentulose within, spreading; anthers about 0.5 mm. long, subexserted, 
ovoid-oblong; seeds winged. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica, in thickets. 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica. 
ILLUSTRATION: P. Br. Hist. Jam. $l. 2, f. 3. 
65. Rondeletia tomentosa Sw. Prodr. 41. 1788. 
Shrub, 1 meter high; stipules deltoid-subulate, strigose; leaves opposite, the petioles 1—2.5 
em. long, short-pilose, the blades lance-elliptic or elliptic, 3.7—7.5 cm. long, 1.8-3.7 cm. wide, 
acute at the base, obtuse or acute at the apex, puberulent above or glabrate, grayish-scaberulous 
beneath, short-pilose along the veins; inflorescence axillary, cymose-paniculate, short-pilose, 
