Part 1, 1918] RUBIACEAE 



within; anthers included, 1.7 mm. long, the filaments very short; capsule globose, 3 mm. in 

 diameter, short-pilose; seeds angulate or subcompressed, 0.5-0.8 mm. long, exalate, yellowish- 

 brown, lustrous, reticulate. 



Type locality: Near Bahoruco, Province of Barahona, Santo Domingo, at an altitude of 100 

 meters. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



106. Rondeletia Berteriana DC. Prodr. 4: 409. 1830. 



Shrub, the branches stout, terete, reddish-brown or grayish, lenticellate, densely grayish- 

 or fulvous-pilose when young; stipules deltoid, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, acuti or long-acuminate, 

 thick, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded at the ends of the branches, the petioles stout, 

 1-3 mm. long, tomentulose, the blades oval, elliptic-oval, or obovate-oval, 1-2.5 cm. long, 0.7-1 

 cm. wide, usually acute at the base, sometimes obtuse, rounded to obtuse at the apex, often 

 minutely apiculate, coriaceous, dark-green above, minutely appressed-pilose when young, 

 glabrate in age, the venation impressed, beneath densely grayish- or fulvescent-tomentulose, 

 sometimes glabrate in age, the venation prominent, reticulate, the lateral veins 3 or 4 on each 

 side, arcuate, ascending at an acute angle, the margins plane or subrevolute; inflorescence 

 axillary, usually 3-flowered, the peduncles stout, 1-3 mm. long, the flowers sessile; bracts 

 minute, triangular; hypanthium densely^ tomentulose; calyx-lobes 4, lance-triangular, acute or 

 acutish, 1-1.5 mm. long, sericeous; corolla-tube slender, ampliate above, 5 mm. long, densely 

 retrorse-pilose outside, the 4 lobes rounded, one third as long as the tube or shorter, sericeous 

 outside, glabrous or nearly so within; anthers included, 1.3 mm. long; capsule globose, 3-3.5 

 mm. in diameter, tomentulose; seeds compressed, about 1.5 mm. long, reticulate, brown, 

 exalate. 



Type locality: Santo Domingo. 

 Distribution: Santo Domingo. 



107. Rondeletia Combsii Greenman; Combs, Trans. Acad. St. Louis 



7: 427. 1897. 



Shrub or small tree, 2.5-5 meters high, the branches stout, terete, reddish-brown or grayish, 

 lenticellate, densely appressed-pilose when young with short yellowish hairs; stipules deltoid- 

 acuminate, 2-4 mm. long, thick, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-3 mm. 

 long, tomentulose, the blades oblong, elliptic-oblong, or obovate-oblong, usually 1.5-5 cm. 

 long and 0.5-1.1 cm. wide, acute at the base, acute or obtuse at the apex, thick-coriaceous, 

 densely and minutely velvety-pilose above, the venation impressed, beneath densely and 

 finely grayish-tomentulose, the venation prominent, reticulate, the lateral veins ascending 

 at an acute angle, the margins revolute; inflorescence axillary, usually 3-flowered, the peduncles 

 stout, 2-5 mm. long, the flowers sessile; bracts minute, deltoid; hypanthium densely tomen- 

 tulose; calyx-lobes 4, narrowly triangular or oblong, 1-2 mm. long, acute: corolla-tube 5 mm. 

 long, densely retrorse-pilose outside, the 4 lobes rounded, about one third as long as the 

 tube; anthers included; capsule globose, about 4 mm. in diameter, tomentulose. 



Type locality: Calicita, Santa Clara, Cuba. 



Distribution: Rocky shores and hillsides, Santa Clara and Havana, Cuba. 



Illustration: Trans. Acad. St. Louis 7: pi. 34. 



XV. Correifoliae. Leaves large, coriaceous, sparsely sericeous. Stipules small, erect. 

 Inflorescence axillary, cymose, few-flowered, the flowers 5-6-parted; calyx-lobes large; corolla 

 very large, retrorse-pilose outside, the throat naked. Capsule very large, pyriform. Seeds 

 appendaged at each end. 



108. Rondeletia correifolia Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 129. 1866. 



Shrub, 2.5 meters high or less, the branches very stout, terete or subangulate, grayish- 

 brown, densely and very minutely hirtellous or scaberulo-sericeous when young with grayish 

 hairs, the internodes mostly shorter than the leaves; stipules 5-6 mm. long, the base rounded- 



