82 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 32 
flowered, axillary, the peduncles about 3 mm. long, tomentulose; flowers 4-parted; capsule 
globose, 3 mm. in diameter, grayish-tomentulose. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Loma de Ponciano, Sancti Spiritus Mountains, Santa Clara, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
97. Rondeletia lomensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 394. 1912. 
Shrub, about 2.5 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish-brown, rimose, retrorse- 
pilose when young with short subappressed fulvous hairs; stipules deltoid, 3-3.5 mm. long, 
acute or acuminate, erect, thick, short-sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded at the ends of the 
branches, the petioles stout, 3-5 mm. long, minutely sericeous-pilose, the blades oval, ovate- 
oval, or oblong-oval, 2-4 cm. long, 1.3-2.2 cm. wide, rounded or very obtuse at the base, 
rounded or very obtuse at the apex, coriaceous, green above, dull, glabrous, or sparsely stri- 
gillose along the costa when young, the venation impressed, reticulate, beneath densely whitish- 
puberulent or in age glabrate, appressed-pilosulous along the veins, the venation prominulous, 
the lateral veins 3 or 4 on each side, spreading or ascending at an angle of 60° or more, nearly 
straight, the margins subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, 1—3-flowered, capitate, the peduncles 
stout, 3-10 mm. long; bractlets deltoid, about 2 mm. long; hypanthium tomentulose; calyx- 
lobes 4, triangular; corolla white; capsule globose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, yellowish-tomentulose. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Dry serpentine hill, Loma Santa Teresa, near El Yunque, Oriente, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
98. Rondeletia nipensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 393. 1912. 
Shrub, about 1.3 meters high, the branches stout, terete, reddish-brown, lenticellate, 
densely pilose when young with fulvescent ascending hairs; stipules broadly deltoid, 3.5-—5 mm. . 
long, acuminate or cuspidate, thick, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-7 mm. 
long, pilose, the blades oval, ovate-oval, or oval-oblong, 1.5—5.5 cm. long, 1-3 em. wide, cori- 
aceous, dark-green above, dull, glabrous, or when young sparsely strigillose along the costa, 
the venation impressed, beneath strigose along the veins, densely whitish-tomentulose when 
young, in age glabrate, the venation prominent, reticulate, the lateral veins about 4 on each 
side, ascending at an angle of 50-60°, subarcuate, the margins subrevolute; inflorescence 
axillary, capitate, usually 3-flowered, the peduncles stout, 4 cm. long or shorter, the flowers 
sessile; bracts sometimes foliaceous, usually deltoid-acuminate and 3-4 mm. long; hypanthium 
densely pilose outside; calyx-lobes 4, ovate-deltoid, obtuse, 1.5-—2 mm. long; corolla white, the 
tube densely retrorse-pilose outside with yellowish hairs. 
TyPE LOCALITY: In pinelands, Sierra Nipe, near Woodfred, Oriente, Cuba, at an altitude of 
500 to 650 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Nipe, Oriente, Cuba. 
99. Rondeletia Fuertesii Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 396. 1912. 
Shrub, the branches stout, terete, grayish, densely and minutely yellowish-sericeous when 
young; stipules deltoid, about 2 mm. long, acute or acuminate, thick, erect, minutely sericeous; 
leaves opposite, crowded at the ends of the short branchlets, the petioles stout, 1-2 or rarely 
3.5 mm. long, tomentulose, the blades oval or oval-oblong, mostly 7-10 mm. long and 3-6 mm. 
wide, sometimes 17 mm. long and 9 mm. wide, acute or acutish at the base, rounded or very 
obtuse at the apex, minutely apiculate, thick-coriaceous, yellowish-green above, densely and 
minutely appressed-pilose, the nervation obsolete, beneath densely and minutely whitish- 
sericeous, the veins very thick and prominent, the lateral ones 2—5 on each side, ascending at an 
angle of 25-30°, the secondary veins reticulate, the margins plane; flowers axillary, solitary, 
the peduncles stout, 1-2 mm. long; bractlets linear-subulate, 1-2 mm. long; hypanthium 
densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 4, linear, subequal, 2.5 mm. long, acute, sericeous; corolla- 
tube cylindric, ampliate above, 4.5 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose outside with short whitish 
hairs, glabrous within, the 4 lobes rounded, half as long as the tube, puberulent outside, glabrous 
within; anthers included, 1.5 mm. long, the filaments very short; capsule globose, 3.5 mm. in 
diameter, tomentulose; seeds angulate, about 0.8 mm. long, brown, reticulate, exalate. 
