84 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 32 
as long as the tube, sericeous outside, puberulent within; anthers included; capsule globose, 
densely whitish-tomentulose. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Vicinity of Baracoa, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
103. Rondeletia insularis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 28. 1917. 
Shrub, about 2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish-brown, rimose, densely 
grayish-pilose when young; stipules deltoid, 2-3 mm. long, acute or acuminate, thick, erect, 
sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded, the petioles stout, about 2 mm. long, sericeous-strigillose, 
the blades obovate, cuneate-obovate, or oval-oblong, 1.7—3 cm. long, 0.7—1.3 em. wide, acute to 
attenuate at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, minutely apiculate, thick-coriaceous, 
dark-green above, dull, minutely pilosulous when young, glabrate in age, the venation obsolete, 
beneath brownish, strigose along the veins, grayish-puberulent when young but soon glabrate, 
the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins prominulous, 3 or 4 on each side, subarcuate, 
ascending at an acute angle, the secondary veins prominulous, reticulate, the margins revolute; 
flowers axillary, solitary, the peduncles stout, 2-3 mm. long; bracts and bractlets minute, del- 
toid; calyx-lobes ovate-deltoid, 1 mm. long, obtuse, sericeous; capsule globose, 4-5 mm. in 
diameter, densely tomentulose. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Vicinity of Pueblo Romano, Cayo Romano, Camaguey, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
104. Rondeletia camarioca C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anal. Acad. Habana 
6? 1102.9 1569: 
Shrub, 1-2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish or brown, lenticellate, ap- 
pressed-pilose when young with short, ascending, grayish or fulvous hairs; stipules deltoid, 
2-3 mm. long, acute or acuminate, thick, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded at the ends 
of the branches, the petioles stout, 1-2 mm. long, tomentulose, the blades oval-oblong or oblong, 
1-2 cm. long, 0.5—0.8 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the 
apex, often apiculate, thick-coriaceous, dark-green above, densely and minutely velvety-pilose 
when young, sometimes glabrate in age and lustrous, the venation obsolete or impressed, be- 
neath densely whitish-tomentulose, the venation prominent, reticulate, the lateral veins 2—4 
on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an acute angle, the margins revolute or subrevolute; 
inflorescence axillary, usually 1-flowered, sometimes 3-flowered, the peduncles stout, 1-3 mm. 
long; bracts and bractlets minute, deltoid; hypanthium densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 4, 
oval or ovate-oval, 1-1.5 mm. long, rounded at the apex, minutely sericeous; corolla brownish, 
the tube slender, about 5 mm. long, retrorse-pilose outside, the 4 lobes rounded, about one third 
as long as the tube, sericeous outside, puberulent within; anthers included; capsule globose, 
3-5 mm. in diameter, tomentulose; seeds 1.5—2 mm. long, compressed, rugulose, brown, exalate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Savannas of Camarioca, Matanzas, Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Santa Clara and Matanzas, Cuba. 
105. Rondeletia Brauseana Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 395. 1912. 
Tree, the branches stout, brownish, lenticellate, pilose when young, the internodes 3-5 cm. 
long; stipules triangular, linear-acuminate, 3-5.5 mm. long, erect, densely short-pubescent; 
leaves opposite, the petioles 3-7 mm. long, the blades obovate-elliptic, oval-elliptic, or elliptic- 
oblong, 2-6 cm. long, 0.7—2.5 cm. wide, obtuse or acute at the base, acute or obtuse at the apex, 
subcoriaceous, sparsely short-pilose above or glabrate, beneath white-tomentulose at first, 
later sparsely short-pilose, pale beneath, the costa subimpressed above, the lateral veins ele- 
vated beneath, 3-5 on each side, ascending at an angle of 20-50°, the secondary veins promi- 
nently reticulate; inflorescence axillary, subcapitate, 3—5-flowered, the peduncles 2—5 mm. long, 
the flowers sessile or subsessile; bracts and bractlets lance-linear or linear, 1.5-4 mm. long; 
hypanthium densely sericeous; calyx-lobes 4, linear, equal, 2-2.5 mm. long, obtuse, erect; 
corolla white, retrorsely white-pilosulous outside, the tube cylindric, 5.5 mm. long, glabrous 
within, thickened in the throat, the 4 lobes ovate, less than half as long as the tube, glabrous 
