80 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 32 
cending at an angle of 50°-60°, the margins plane or subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, mostly 
1-flowered; sometimes 3-flowered, the peduncles stout, 2 mm. long or shorter; bractlets tri- 
angular-acuminate, minute; calyx-tube whitish-tomentulose, the 4 lobes linear or oblanceolate, 
1.5-3 mm. long, acute, strigillose; corolla yellowish, the tube slender, 6-7 mm. long, densely 
retrorse-pilose outside with short whitish hairs, the 4 lobes rounded, one third as long as the tube, 
puberulent; anthers included; capsule subglobose, 4 mm. long, dark-brown, tomentulose; seeds 
about 1 mm. long, angulate, brown, reticulate, exalate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Montserrat. 
DISTRIBUTION: Montserrat. 
ILLUSTRATiON: Vahl, Eclog. Am. fl. 12. 
92. Rondeletia inermis (Spreng.) Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 
1: 416. 1899. 
Catesbaea inermis Spreng. Syst. 1: 417. 1825. 
Rondeletia buxifolia DC. Prodr. 4: 409, in part. 1830. Not R. buxifolia Vahl, 1798. 
Rondeletia tetrandra Sessé & Moc. Fl. Mex. 23,in part. 1893. Not R. tetrandra Roxb. 1814. 
Rondeletia inermis angustifolia Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 416. 1899. 
Rondeletia inermis oblongifolia Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 416. 1899. 
Rondeletia inermis intermedia Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 416. 1899. 
Rondeletia inermis latifolia Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 416. 1899. 
Shrub or small tree, 1-5 meters high, the branches stout, terete, brown or grayish, rimose, 
strigose or strigillose when young; stipules deltoid, about 2 mm. long, acute or subulate-acumi- 
nate, thick, erect, strigillose or glabrate outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles 
stout, 2-10 mm. long, strigillose or glabrate, the blades very variable in outline, linear-oblong 
to elliptic, elliptic-oblong, oval, or broadly obovate, 1-10 cm. long, 0.5—5 cm. wide, usually 
obtuse at the base, sometimes acute, acute to rounded at the apex, usually apiculate or 
abruptly short-acuminate, chartaceous or coriaceous, lustrous above, glabrous or when young 
strigillose, usually sulcate along the costa, the secondary venation prominulous, reticulate, 
beneath paler, sublustrous, short-pilose along the veins, elsewhere glabrate or puberulent, the 
venation prominulous, the lateral veins few, usually ascending at a very acute angle, sometimes 
arcuate and ascending at an obtuse angle, the margins plane or subrevolute; inflorescence axil- 
lary, cymose, 1—5-flowered, usually 3-flowered, the peduncles 2 cm. long or shorter, the pedi- 
cels 1-5 mm. long; bracts sometimes foliaceous, usually linear or subulate; hypanthium 
densely grayish-tomentulose; calyx-lobes 4 (rarely 5), oblong-linear to narrowly obovate, 
acute or obtuse, 1.5-4 mm. long, sparsely strigillose, equaling or twice as long as the hypan- 
thium; corolla yellowish or purplish, the tube slender, 7-10 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose 
outside with short whitish hairs, the 4 lobes rounded, about one third as long as the tube, 
spreading, puberulent; anthers included, 2—2.7 mm. long, the filaments very short; capsule 
globose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, tomentulose; seeds about 1 mm. long, angulate, brown, reticu- 
late, exalate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Porto Rico. 
DISTRIBUTION: Porto Rico. 
93. Rondeletia scabra Hemsl. Diag. Pl. Nov. 29. 1879. 
Shrub or tree, the branches terete, pilose when young; stipules lance-subulate, 6-8 mm. 
long; leaves opposite, the petioles 6-12 mm. long, the blades ovate-oblong, 7.5-10 cm. long, 
attenuate at the base, acute at the apex, subcoriaceous, scabrid above, hispid-pilose beneath, 
especially along the veins, the lateral veins prominent beneath; inflorescence axillary, usually 
3-flowered, short-pedunculate, the flowers short-pedicellate; hypanthium strigillose; calyx- 
lobes 4, lance-subulate, about 12 mm. long, about equaling the corolla; corolla strigillose-pilose 
outside, the tube cylindric, 12 mm. long, puberulent within, the 4 lobes rounded, the throat 
naked. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra de San Pedro Nolasco, Oaxaca. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
