Rondeletia racemosa Sw.

Rondeletia racemosa Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 360. 1797
Shrub or tree, 2 meters high, the branches stout, terete or subcompressed, grayish-brown, rimose, glabrous; stipules 2-3 mm. long, broadly deltoid or subtruncate, cuspidate, rigid, erect, glabrous outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles slender, 1.2-3 cm. long, glabrous, the blades elliptic or lance-elliptic, 7-12.5 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acute or acuminate at the base, acuminate to attenuate at the apex, glabrous, dark-green above, brownish beneath, the costa impressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins obscure above, prominulous or obscure beneath, about 7 on each side, arcuate, usually subdivaricate, the margins plane or subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, cymose-paniculate, 2.5-5 cm. long, fewor many-flowered, the branches glabrous, the peduncles mostly shorter than the petioles, the pedicels stout, 4 mm. long or shorter; bracts and bractlets minute, triangular, subulate; hypanthium glabrous or nearly so, turbinate; calyx-lobes 5, triangular, minute, less than half as long as the hypanthium, sericeous within; corolla densely retrorse-strigillose outside with whitish hairs, the tube clavate, 3 mm. long, the throat annular-thickened, the 5 lobes half as long as the tube, puberulent within; capsule globose, 3-4 mm. long, dark-brown, glabrous; seeds flat, 1-1.5 mm. long, pale-brown, winged.
Type locality: Mountain forests of Jamaica. Distribution: Mountains of Jamaica.

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