Rondeletia venosa Griseb.

Rondeletia venosa Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 128. 1866
Rondeletia savannarum Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 29. 1917.
Shrub, about 2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish, rimose, finely sericeous when young, the internodes very short; stipules triangular, 2 mm. long, acute or acuminate, rigid, erect, minutely sericeous; leaves opposite, the petioles very stout, 1-3 mm. long, tomentulose, the blades oval, broadly oval, or elliptic-oval, 9-21 mm. long, 6-13 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, sometimes obscurely apiculate, thick-coriaceous, lustrous above, glabrous, the venation impressed, beneath densely and finely grayish-tomentulose, sericeous along the veins, the venation prominent, reticulate, the lateral veins 3 or 4 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of about 45°, the margin revolute or subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, 1-3-flowered, usually 1 -flowered, the peduncles stout, 1-2.5 mm. long; bracts and bractlets minute, triangular-subulate; hypanthium densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 4, very unequal, 2-4 mm. long, linear or lance-linear, acute; corolla-tube stout, 4 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose, the 4 lobes rounded, half as long as the tube, sericeous outside, glabrate within; capsule globose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, densely tomentulose.
Type locality: Near San Marcos, Bahia Honda, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Distribution: Oriente and Pinar del Rio, Cuba.