78 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 32 
11-12 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, 2.5 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent within; 
anthers included; capsule globose, pliosulous; seeds minute, angulate, exalate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mountains near Santiago, Oriente, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Oriente, Cuba. 
85. Rondeletia Nimanimae Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 
418. 1899. 
Tree, the branches terete, grayish-brown, shortly appressed-pilose when young, soon 
glabrate; stipules triangular, subobtuse; leaves opposite, the petioles 8-12 mm. long, the blades 
ovate or oval, 4.5—5.5 cm. long, 3.5—4.5 em. wide, obtuse or rounded at the base, very obtuse 
or obtusely short-acuminate at the apex, coriaceous, sparsely pilose above when young but soon 
glabrate, lustrous, the venation obscure above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins 4 or 5 
on each side; inflorescence axillary, laxly 1—3-flowered, 7-8 cm. long, the pedicels 1.5—2.5 cm. 
long; bracts 4-5 mm. long, oblong or elliptic-oblong, the bractlets linear or oblong-linear; 
hypanthium tomentose; calyx-lobes 5, linear-spatulate or spatulate, 2.5—3 mm. long, obtuse or 
rounded; corolla white, densely pilose outside, the tube cylindric, 11-12 mm. long, glabrous 
inside, the 5 lobes rounded, less than a third as long as the tube, pilosulous within; anthers 
included, 2.5 mm. long, the filaments very short. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near Nimanima, Oriente, Cuba, at an altitude of 800 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
86. Rondeletia Leoni Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 26. 1917. 
Shrub or small tree, up to 3 meters high, the branches slender, shortly appressed-pilose 
when young; stipules lance-subulate, 3-4 mm. long, shortly appressed-pilose, erect; leaves 
opposite, the petioles 12 mm. long or shorter, appressed-pilose, the blades elliptic to obovate, 
3-8 cm. long, narrowed or cuneate at the base, acute, short-acuminate, or obtuse at the apex, 
subcoriaceous, densely appressed-pilose when young, glabrate in age or strigose beneath along 
the veins, the venation inconspicuously reticulate, the margins plane or subrevolute; inflores- 
cence axillary, 4-6 cm. long, 1-few-flowered, the pedicels slender, 1-2 cm. long; bracts often 
foliaceous, the bractlets linear-subulate; hypanthium densely appressed-pilose; calyx-lobes 5, 
linear or linear-spatulate; 3-4 mm. long; corolla densely appressed-pilose outside with white 
hairs, the tube slender, 10-12 mm. long, the lobes oblong-orbicular, 2.5—3 mm. long, deep-purple 
within; capsule globose, 4-5 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra del Caballete, Sancti Spiritus Mountains, Santa Clara, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Vicinity of the type locality. 
87. Rondeletia incana Sw. Prodr. 41. 1788. 
Arachnimor pha incana Hamilt. Prodr. 28. 1825. 
Shrub, 0.5-3 meters high, the branches densely pilose when young; stipules triangular, 
7-12 mm. long, brown, densely pilose, deciduous; leaves opposite, the petioles 5-12 mm. long, 
the blades oval to oblong, 3.5—7 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, obtuse at the base, obtuse or rounded at 
the apex, coriaceous, pilose above when young with long soft hairs, finally lustrous and glabrate, 
the venation impressed, beneath densely pilose or tomentose with brownish hairs, the venation 
prominent; inflorescence axillary, subcapitate, 3-flowered, the peduncles 1-2.5 cm. long, the 
flowers short-pedicellate; bracts distinct, ovate, acute, 5-6 mm. long; calyx-lobes 5, 4-6 mm. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, loosely pilose or lanate, much longer than the hypanthium; corolla 
pilose, the tube clavate, 8 mm. long, the lobes puberulent within. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Rocky, calcareous mountains, Jamaica. 
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica. 
88. Rondeletia chamaebuxifolia Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 128. 1866. 
Rondelelia avenia C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anal. Acad. Habana 4: 121. 1869. 
Shrub, the branches stout, terete, grayish, sericeous-strigillose when young; stipules tri- 
angular-acuminate, about 2 mm. long, sericeous, thick, erect; leaves opposite, crowded, the 
