Rondeletia shaferi Urb. & Britton

Rondeletia shaferi Urban & Britton; Urban, Symb. Ant. 7:
398. 1912.
Shrub, 1 meter high, the branches terete, brown or grayish-brown, finely and densely hirtellous when young, densely leafy; stipules triangular, 1-2 mm. long, acute, erect, persistent; leaves opposite or ternate, the petioles stout, 1-3 mm. long, the blades oval or oval-ovate, 1-2.5 cm. long, 0.7-1.3 cm. wide, rounded to obscurely cordate at the base, acute or obtuse at the apex, submucronate, thick-coriaceous, hirtellous along the veins or glabrate, lustrous above, paler beneath, the costa stout, prominent beneath, sulcate above, the lateral veins obscure; inflorescence terminal, 1-3-flowered, long-pedunculate, the pedicels stout, 5-20 mm. long; bractlets linear, 2-3 mm. long; hypanthium minutely whitish-hirtellous; calyx -lobes 5, spatulate-linear, about 3 mm. long, acute, rigid, foliaceous, erect; corolla pink, densely retrorsesericeous outside, the tube stout, 12 mm. long, naked in the throat, the 5 lobes rounded, 2.5 mm. long, spreading, puberulent inside; anthers and style included; capsule globose, 4-5 mm. long, dark-brown, finely hirtellous.
Type locality: Along water in savannas near Holguin, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.