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thium densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 5, lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long, acute, about as long as 
the hypanthium; corolla yellowish, puberulent outside, the tube cylindric, ampliate above, 
5.5-6.5 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, one third as long as the tube, the throat annular- 
thickened; anthers included, 1.3 mm. long, the filaments very short; capsule globose, 4-5 mm. 
in diameter, puberulent and pilosulous; seeds flat, about 1 mm. long, yellowish, reticulate, 
winged, the wing entire or nearly so. 
Type LocaLity: Near Cherry Garden, Jamaica, at an altitude of 200 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica. 
77. Rondeletia hirsuta Sw. Prodr. 41. 1788. 
Rondeletia hirta DC. Prodr. 4: 407. 1830. Not R. hirtaSw. 1788. 
Rondeletia hirta Aitonii DC. Prodr. 4: 408. 1830. 
Bouvardia hirsuta A. Rich. Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 5: 272. 1834. 
Shrub, 1-3 meters high, the branches stout, terete or subangulate, yellowish, densely 
whitish- or fulvous-pilose when young; stipules deltoid, 4-10 mm. long, cuspidate, rigid, erect, 
densely appressed-pilose; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 3-8 mm. long, densely pilose, 
the blades elliptic, oval, or ovate-oval, 6.5—-10 cm. long, 2.8-5.5 cm. wide, coriaceous, dark- 
green and lustrous on the upper surface, short-pilose or finally glabrate, often rugulose, the 
venation impressed, beneath paler, densely or sparsely pilosulous, the venation prominent, the 
lateral veins 6-8 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of 50° or more, the margins re- 
curved; inflorescence axillary, cymose-paniculate, rather few-flowered, the pedicels slender or 
stout, 1.5—5 cm. long, densely pilose, the cymes loose, the flowers short-pedicellate; bracts 
often foliaceous, the bractlets lance-subulate, 2-5 mm. long; hypanthium densely short-pilose; 
calyx-lobes 5, linear-attenuate, 2.5-5 mm. long, appressed-pilose, erect or spreading; corolla 
yellowish, densely pilose outside, the tube cylindric, 6-8 mm. long, the 4 lobes rounded, about 
one third as long as the tube, spreading, glabrate within; anthers included, 1.5 mm. long; cap- 
sule globose, 5-6 mm. in diameter, densely pilose; seeds flat, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, brownish- 
yellow, reticulate, winged, the wing irregularly dentate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mountains near Bath, Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica. 
XI. Umbellulatae. Leaves large, thin or coriaceous, sericeous or long-pilose. Stipules 
large, erect, usually thin. Inflorescence axillary, many-flowered, the flowers 5-parted, col- 
lected into 1—3 dense heads, sometimes 1-flowered; bracts large; calyx-lobes usually large, often 
foliaceous; corolla of medium size, antrorse-pilose outside, the throat naked. Capsule small, 
globose. Seeds winged or appendaged. 
78. Rondeletia cincta Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 329. 1861. 
Tree, 5-6 meters high, the branches stout, terete or subangulate, grayish, finely grayish- 
sericeous when young, the internodes very short; stipules sheathing, 6-12 mm. long, erect, 
thick, finely sericeous, the lobes triangular, long-acuminate; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 
6-18 mm. long, finely sericeous, the blades narrowly oblanceolate-oblong, obovate-oblong, or 
elliptic, 5-7.5 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, acute or acutish at the base, acute or acutish at the 
apex, coriaceous, green above, lustrous, sparsely sericeous when young but soon glabrate, the 
venation plane or subimpressed, paler beneath, short-sericeous, especially along the veins, 
the costa stout, the lateral veins prominulous, 4 or 5 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an 
angle of about 45°, the margins subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, capitate or subcapitate, 
few-flowered, the peduncles stout, about as long as the petioles, sericeous, the flowers sessile 
or short-pedicellate; bracts subconnate, broadly ovate, 6-8 mm. long, acute, sericeous, the 
bractlets ovate, acuminate, 3-5 mm. long, densely sericeous; hypanthium densely sericeous; 
calyx-lobes 5, ovate, 4-5 mm. long, acute; corolla villosulous-sericeous outside, the tube stout, 
cylindric, 8 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, 2.5 mm. long, puberulent within; anthers included. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Westmoreland, on the summit of Dolphin Peak, Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Jamaica. 
