Rondeletia cincta Griseb.

Rondeletia cincta Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 329. 1861
Tree, 5-6 meters high, the branches stout, terete or subangulate, grayish, finely grayishsericeous when young, the internodes very short; stipules sheathing, 6-12 mm. long, erect, thick, finely sericeous, the lobes triangular, long-acuminate; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 6-18 mm. long, finely sericeous, the blades narrowly oblanceolate-oblong, obovate-oblong, or elliptic, 5-7.5 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, acute or acutish at the base, acute or acutish at the apex, coriaceous, green above, lustrous, sparsely sericeous when young but soon glabrate, the venation plane or subimpressed, paler beneath, short-sericeous, especially along the veins, the costa stout, the lateral veins prominulous, 4 or 5 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of about 45°, the margins subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, capitate or subcapitate, few-flowered, the peduncles stout, about as long as the petioles, sericeous, the flowers sessile or short-pedicellate; bracts subconnate, broadly ovate, 6-8 mm. long, acute, sericeous, the bractlets ovate, acuminate, 3-5 mm. long, densely sericeous; hypanthium densely sericeous; calyx-lobes 5, ovate, 4-5 mm. long, acute; corolla villosulous-sericeous outside, the tube stout, cylindric, 8 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, 2.5 mm. long, puberulent within; anthers included.
Type locality: Westmoreland, on the summit of Dolphin Peak, Jamaica. Distribution: Mountains of Jamaica.

Rondeletia cincta is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica. It is threatened by habitat loss.