Rondeletia impressa Krug & Urb.

Rondeletia impressa Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1 : 412
1899.
Shrub, 2.5-3.6 dm. high, the branches stout, terete, grayish-brown, rimose, puberulent and loosely pilose when young with fulvous hairs, the internodes short; stipules broadly deltoid, 3-4 mm. long, cuspidate, rigid, erect, pilose outside, sericeous within; leaves mostly ternate, the petioles stout, 8-15 mm. long, puberulent and pilose, the blades elliptic-oval to elliptic, 7.5-10.5 cm. long, 2.8-5 cm. wide, rounded to acutish at the base, subabruptly short-acuminate at the apex, thick-chartaceous, dark-green above, lustrous, sparsely pilosulous when young but soon glabrate, the venation impressed, beneath brownish, puberulent and sparsely pilosulous along the veins, elsewhere sparsely puberulent or glabrate, the venation prominent, the lateral veins 5-9 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of 50°-60°, the margins subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, many-flowered, 3-6 cm. long, the branches densely pilosulous, the peduncles usually twice as long as the petioles, the flowers on pedicels 3 mm. long or shorter; bracts linear-subulate or sometimes foliaceous, the bractlets minute; hypanthium densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 5, lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long, acute, about as long as the hypanthium; corolla yellowish, puberulent outside, the tube cylindric, ampliate above, 5.5-6.5 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, one third as long as the tube, the throat annularthickened; anthers included, 1.3 mm. long, the filaments very short; capsule globose, 4—5 mm. in diameter, puberulent and pilosulous; seeds flat, about 1 mm. long, yellowish, reticulate, winged, the wing entire or nearly so.
Type locality: Near Cherry Garden, Jamaica, at an altitude of 200 meters. Distribution: Jamaica.