Rondeletia pachyphylla Krug & Urb.

Rondeletia pachyphylla Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1:
419. 1899.
Shrub, 1-2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish, strigillose or hirtellous when young; stipules broadly triangular, 1-2 mm. long, acute, erect, persistent, brown; leaves opposite, often crowded, the petioles stout, 4-7 mm. long, hirtellous, the blades oval or ovaloblong, 12-30 mm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, rounded to acutish at the base, rounded or obtuse at the apex, thick-coriaceous, glabrous, lustrous on the upper surface, paler beneath, the costa stout and prominent beneath, impressed above, the lateral veins obscure, the margins revolute ; inflorescence mostly axillary but partly terminal, 1-flowered, the pedicels slender, 1.5-3 cm. long; bracts foliaceous, oblong or oval, petiolate, the bractlets linear-subulate; hypanthium glabrous; calyx-lobes 5, ovalor orbicular-spatulate, 3-5 mm. long, obtuse, foliaceous, erect or spreading; corolla glabrous, pinkish, the tube slender, 12-14 mm. long, naked in the throat, the 5 lobes rounded, about 3 mm. long; anthers and style included; capsule subglobose, 6-8 mm. long, dark-brown; seeds numerous, angulate, 1 mm. long, brownish-yellow.
Type locality: Cuba.
Distribution: Rocky banks of streams. Oriente, Cuba.