Rondeletia nimanimae Krug & Urb.

Rondeletia nimanimae Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1:
418. 1899.
Tree, the branches terete, grayish-brown, shortly appressed-pilose when young, soon
glabrate; stipules triangular, subobtuse; leaves opposite, the petioles 8-12 mm. long, the blades
ovate or oval, 4.5-5.5 cm. long, 3.5-4.5 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the base, very obtuse
or obtusely short-acuminate at the apex, coriaceous, sparsely pilose above when young but soon
glabrate, lustrous, the venation obscure above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins 4 or 5
on each side; inflorescence axillary, laxly 1-3-flowered, 7-8 cm. long, the pedicels 1.5-2.5 cm.
long; bracts 4-5 mm. long, oblong or elliptic-oblong, the bractlets linear or oblong-linear;
hypanthium tomentose; calyx-lobes 5, linear-spatulate or spatulate, 2.5-3 mm. long, obtuse or
rounded; corolla white, densely pilose outside, the tube cylindric, 11-12 mm. long, glabrous
inside, the 5 lobes rounded, less than a third as long as the tube, pilosulous within; anthers
included, 2.5 mm. long, the filaments very short.
Type locality: Near Nimanima, Oriente, Cuba, at an altitude of 800 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.