72 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 32 
cuspidate, erect, rigid, glabrous outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 
0.8-2.2 em. long, glabrous, the blades oval-elliptic, elliptic, or lance-oblong, 7.5-13 cm. long, 
2-5.5 em. wide, acute at the base, obtuse to acuminate at the apex, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 
dark-green above, lustrous, the costa impressed, the other veins plane, brownish beneath, the 
costa stout, prominent, the lateral veins prominulous, 6—8 on each side, nearly straight, as- 
cending at an angle of 45° or more, the margins plane; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, 4-9 cm. 
long, the peduncles slender, mostly longer than the petioles, the branches minutely whitish- 
puberulent, the flowers subsessile; bracts and bractlets triangular or lanceolate, 3 mm. long or 
shorter; hypanthium:-densely grayish-tomentulose outside; calyx-lobes 5, minute, broadly 
deltoid, less than half as long as the hypanthium; corolla densely tomentulose outside, the 
tube clavate, 4 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, one third as long as the tube, tomentulose 
within; anthers oblong-linear, included, the filaments short; capsule subglobose, 2—2.5 mm. long, 
bisulcate, tomentulose; seeds flat, about 1 mm. long, yellowish, winged. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near St. Anns Bay, Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Jamaica. 
69. Rondeletia trifolia Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. 60. 1763. 
Tree, up to 4 meters high, the branches pilose; stipules deltoid-subulate, pubescent; 
leaves opposite or ternate, the petioles 8-12 mm. long, pilose, the blades lance-oblong, 7.5—-10 
em. long, 2—2.5 cm. wide, acuminate at each end, glabrous above, glabrate beneath or hispi- 
dulous along the costa, the venation prominulous beneath; inflorescence axillary, hirsute, 
paniculate, pedunculate, shorter than the leaves, the flowers pedicellate; calyx-lobes 5, deltoid; 
corolla reddish, pubescent outside, salverform, the tube slender, ampliate above, 4 mm. long, 
the 5 lobes one third as long as the tube, puberulent within; anthers included; seeds winged. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Hills along Ferry River, Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. pl. 43; Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Pict. pl. 62. 
70. Rondeletia thyrsoidea Sw. Prodr. 41. 1788. 
? Petesia stipularis L,. Syst. ed. 10. 894. 1759. 
Rondeletia microcalyx Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 412. 1899. 
Shrub or small tree, sometimes 6 meters high, the branches stout, terete or obtusely angu- 
late, grayish, densely grayish-puberulent and antrorse-pilose when young; stipules broadly 
deltoid, acute or cuspidate, 3-5 mm. long, rigid, erect, appressed-pilose outside, sericeous- 
pilose within; leaves mostly ternate, the petioles stout, 1-2.5 cm. long, puberulent and pilose, 
the blades narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong to oval-elliptic, 4.5-12 em. long, 1.6—5 cm. wide, 
acute to attenuate at the base, sometimes abruptly short-decurrent, acute to attenuate at the 
apex, subcoriaceous, bright-green and lustrous on the upper surface, glabrous except along the 
impressed costa, there pilosulous, paler and usually brownish beneath, sparsely pilosulous or 
puberulent or finally glabrate, the venation prominent beneath, the lateral veins slender, 5-8 
on each side, arcuate-ascending at an angle of about 45°, the margins usually subrevolute; in- 
florescence axillary, paniculate, 2-6.5 cm. long, the peduncles equaling or shorter than the 
petioles, the flowers few or numerous, sessile or very shortly pedicellate; bracts triangular- 
subulate, rarely foliaceous; hypanthium densely grayish-tomentulose; calyx-lobes 5, deltoid, 
minute, one third as long as the hypanthium or shorter; corolla yellowish, cinereo-puberulent 
outside, the tube cylindric, slightly ampliate above, 4-5 mm. long, the throat annular-thick- 
ened, the 5 lobes rounded, spreading, one third as long as the tube or shorter, puberulent 
within; anthers included, 1.3 mm. long, the filaments very short; capsule didymous-globose, 
3 mm. long, 3.5-4 mm. wide, brown, tomentulose; seeds flat, 1-1.5 mm. long, brown, reticulate, 
narrowly winged, the wing entire or denticulate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Dry hillsides, western Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: On hillsides, Jamaica. 
