Rondeletia subglabra Krug & Urb.

Rondeletia subglabra Krug & Urban ; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1 : 418
1899.
Shrub, the branches stout, terete, dark-brown or grayish, strigillose or hirtellous when young; stipules minute, triangular, persistent; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 4—10 mm. long, strigillose or glabrous, the blades broadly oval to oval-oblong or obovate, 2-6.5 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, rounded to acutish at the base, broadly rounded to acutish at the apex, thickcoriaceous, glabrous, lustrous, dark-green above, paler beneath, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins very slender, 4-6 on each side, ascending at an angle of 45° or more, nearly straight, the margins revolute; inflorescence terminal and axillary, cymose-corymbose, the peduncles 3-25 mm. long, slender, the cymes few-flowered, long-pedunculate, the pedicels 2-10 mm. long; bracts minute, linear; hypanthium strigillose; calyx-lobes 5, linear or spatulate, about 1 mm. long, obtuse, spreading; capsule globose, 3.5-4 mm. in diameter, glabrous, darkbrown.
Type locality: Near Santiago, Oriente, Cuba, at an altitude of 1400 meters. Distribution: Mountains of Oriente, Cuba.