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deltoid, cuspidate, erect, rigid, brown, minutely sericeous outside; leaves opposite, sessile or 

 nearly so, the broad flat petioles sometimes 4 mm. long, the blades oval or oblong-oval, 4.5-8 cm. 

 long, 2.5-5.2 cm. wide, subcordate at the base, rounded or obtuse at the apex, sometimes apic- 

 ulate, rigid-coriaceous, deep-green above, glabrous, beneath brown, minutely sericeous be- 

 neath along the veins, elsewhere sparsely puberulent or glabrous, the venation plane or sub- 

 impressed above, the costa prominent beneath, the lateral veins prominulous, slender, about 

 6 on each side, straight or subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 45° or more; inflorescence axillary, 

 cymose, few-flowered, the peduncles stout, about as long as the leaves, the pedicels very stout, 

 1.5 cm. long; bracts verticillate, resembling the leaves but smaller, the bractlets linear, 5 mm. 

 long or shorter; hypanthium densely and minutely grayish- or fulvous-pilose outside; calyx- 

 lobes 5, triangular-oblong, 4—7 mm. long, acute or subobtuse, sericeous inside, erect, often with 

 small intermediate lobes ; corolla white, very densely retrorse-pilose outside, with white or fulvous 

 hairs, the tube cylindric, 12 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. thick, the throat ampliate, 5-7 mm. long, the 

 lobes 5 or 6, obovate-orbicular, about 7 mm. long, tomentulose within, the throat naked; anthers 

 included, subsessile, 3 mm. long, inserted at the base of the throat; capsule pyriform, 12-15 mm. 

 long, acute at the base, truncate at the apex, densely short-pilose; seeds numerous, irregular, 

 angulate or compressed, 1-2 mm. long, appendaged at each end, brown, punctulate. 



Type locality: Western Cuba. 



Distribution: Pinelands and savannas, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and the Isle of Pines. 



109. Rondeletia (?) camagueyensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 



30. 1917. 



Shrub, about 3 meters high, the branchlets densely strigillose when young, the internodes 

 short; stipules triangular, acute, about 3 mm. long; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, strigil- 

 lose, 2-3 mm. long, the blades ovate-oval or elliptic-oval, 3-4 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, 

 chartaceous, rounded to acutish at the base, obtuse or acutish at the apex, green above, 

 scaberulous, the venation impressed, paler beneath, puberulent, short-pilose along the veins, 

 the venation prominent, the lateral veins about 7 on each side; capsule subglobose, 4-6 mm. 

 in diameter, dark-brown, coarsely lenticellate. 



Type locality: Arroyo, savanna near Camaguey, Cuba. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



This species is evidently distinct, but with the incomplete material available it is impossible to 

 place it definitely. 



Doubtful or excluded species 



Rondeletia laevigata Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1: 366. 1810. Reported from Cuba by 

 De Candolle. The species is known definitely only from Trinidad. 



Rondeletia lEpTacantha DC. Prodr. 4: 410. 1830. Described from Cuba. Evi- 

 dently not of this genus. 



Rondeletia microdon DC. Prodr. 4: 408. 1830. Described from Cuba. Scarcely of 

 this genus. 



Rondeletia nicaraguEnsis Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1852: 43. 1852. Described from 

 Nicaragua and reported from Panama. The identity of the plant is very doubtful; said to 

 have axillary inflorescence. 



Rondeletia parvifxora Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 6: 252. 1804. Described from Martini- 

 que. Of the group Laurifoliae. 



Rondeletia RoEzlii (Planch.) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 23. 1881. {Rogiera 

 Roezlii Planch. Fl. Serres 5: 442. 1849; Rogiera elegans Planch. Fl. Serres 5: 442. 1849). 

 Described from cultivated specimens of Guatemalan origin. Not identifiable from the de- 

 scription, but very probably a synonym of R. amoena. 



Rondeletia royenaEFOlia DC. Prodr. 4: 410. 1830. Described from Santo Domingo. 

 Perhaps the same as R. Berteriana DC. 



Rondeletia spinosa K. Schumann, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3- 620. 1895. Described from 

 Hidalgo. No species of Rondeletia with spine-armed branches is known. Possibly a Randia. 



