ParT 1, 1918] RUBIACEAE 79 
petioles stout, 1-2.5 mm. long, sericeous-strigillose or glabrate, the blades obovate, narrowly 
elliptic-oblong, or oblanceolate-oblong, 2—3.5 cm. long, 0.6—1.3 cm. wide, attenuate to obtuse at 
the base, acute or obtuse at the apex, coriaceous, glabrous, slightly paler beneath, the venation 
obsolete above, very obscure beneath, the margins plane or subrevolute; flowers axillary, 
solitary, subsessile, the bractlets minute; hypanthium densely tomentulose outside; calyx- 
lobes 5, triangular, acute, 1 mm. long; corolla-tube densely retrorse-pilose outside with short 
whitish hairs; capsule globose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, tomentulose; seeds flat, about 1 mm. 
long, brown, reticulate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Western Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Western Cuba. 
89. Rondeletia vacciniifolia Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 29. 1917. 
Shrub, 3-13 dm. high, the branches stout, terete, grayish, strigillose when young; stip- 
ules deltoid, 1.5—-2 mm. long, acuminate, erect; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 1.5—3 mm. 
long, glabrous, the blades oval or elliptic-oblong, 6-12 mm. long, 2.5—-4 mm. wide, acute or 
acuminate at the base, acutish to rounded at the apex, thick-coriaceous, lustrous above, glab- 
rous, sulcate along the costa, brownish beneath, sparsely strigillose along the costa or glabrous, 
the costa prominulous, the lateral veins obsolete, the margins subrevolute; flowers axillary, 
solitary, the peduncles stout, about as long as the petioles, strigose; bractlets deltoid-acuminate, 
minute; hypanthium densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 5, linear or spatulate-linear, 2-3 mm. 
long, obtuse or acutish; capsule globose, 5 mm. in diameter, tomentulose; seeds fusiform, 
angulate, 1-2 mm. long, reticulate, brown, appendaged at each end. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Rocky bank of river, vicinity of Camp San Benito, Oriente, Cuba, at an alti- 
tude of 900 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of northern Oriente, Cuba. 
XIII. Pilosae. Leaves small or large, often irregular in outline, usually thin, more or 
less pubescent. Stipules small, erect. Inflorescence axillary, 1-few-flowered, the flowers 4- 
parted; bracts small; calyx-lobes small or elongate; corolla of medium size, retrorse-pilose out- 
side, the throat naked. Capsule small, globose, Seeds exalate. 
90. Rondeletia intermixta Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 26. 1917. 
Shrub, about 1.6 meters high, the branches stout, terete, reddish-brown, sericeous-pilose 
when young; stipules deltoid, acute or acuminate, about 3 mm. long, erect or ascending, thick, 
sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded at the ends of the branches, the petioles stout, 6-15 mm. 
long, the blades elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 3-6 cm. long 1.2—1.7 cm. wide, acute or attenuate at 
the base, acute or acutish at the apex, thick-chartaceous, bright-green above, lustrous, glabrous, 
or when very young pilose along the costa, the venation subimpressed, beneath densely pilose 
with yellowish subappressed hairs, the venation prominulous, distinct, the lateral veins about 5 
on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 45° or more; inflorescence axillary, few- 
flowered, densely short-pilose, the peduncles stout, shorter than the petioles; bracts deltoid, 
about 1 mm. long; hypanthium densely short-pilose; calyx-lobes 4, deltoid, acute; capsule 
globose, about 3 mm. in diameter, short-pilose. 
TyPE LocaLity: Gran Piedra, Oriente, Cuba, altitude about 1500 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cuba. 
91. Rondeletia buxifolia Vahl, Eclog. Am. 2: 11. 1798. 
Shrub, 1-2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish-brown, minutely strigillose 
when young, the internodes very short; stipules subannular, about 1 mm. long, subacuminate, 
thick, erect, strigillose; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2 mm. long or shorter, strigillose, 
the blades broadly cuneate-obovate or cuneate-spatulate, 1.3-3.5 cm. long, 0.7—1.7 em. wide, 
cuneate at the base, broadly rounded at the apex, sometimes shallowly retuse, coriaceous, 
dark-green above, lustrous, glabrous, the venation impressed or obscure, brownish beneath, 
sparsely appressed-pilose along the veins, the costa prominent, the lateral veins obscure, as- 
