Rondeletia parviflora Poir.

Rondeletia stereocarpa Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 327. 1861
Shrub or small tree, the branches very stout, terete or subangulate, grayish, glabrous or nearly so, the internodes very short; stipules broadly deltoid or ovate-deltoid, 5-8 mm. long, acute to very obtuse, mucronate, rigid, erect, glabrous outside or very sparsely appressedpilose, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-4.5 cm. long, glabrous or sparsely strigose, the blades obovate-oblong, obovate, or narrowly obovate-elliptic, 12.5-22 cm. long, 5-7.5 cm. wide, attenuate at the base, abruptly or subabruptly acuminate at the apex, darkgreen and lustrous above, glabrous or when young sparsely strigillose, the venation plane or impressed, beneath brownish, glabrous or sparsely strigillose, the costa stout, prominent, the lateral veins slender, prominent, 6 or 7 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an angle of about 50°, the margins plane; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, 4-11 cm. long, the branches minutely strigillose or glabrate, the flowers numerous, short-pedicellate; bracts linear or subulate, 3-9 mm. long, the bractlets subulate; hypanthium densely whitish-tomentulose; calyx-lobes 5, narrowly triangular or lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long, acute, glabrate, erect, equaling or longer than the hypanthium; corolla densely retrorse-pilose outside with short whitish appressed hairs, the tube cylindric, subampliate above, 4-6 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, about one third as long as the tube, spreading, puberulent within, the throat annular-thickened; anthers included, oblong-linear, 2 mm. long, the filaments very short; capsule globose, 6 mm. in diameter; seeds winged, the wing dentate.
Type locality: Dominica.
Distribution: Guadeloupe, Dominica, and Martinique.

Rondeletia arborescens Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 327. 1861
Tree, the branches stout, terete or subcompressed, grayish-brown, glabrous or nearly so, the internodes very short; stipules deltoid, 4-6 mm. long, acute or cuspidate, rigid, erect, glabrous or sparsely strigose outside, strigose within; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 0.6-3 cm. long, strigose or glabrate, the blades obovate-oblong or oval-obovate, 6-13 cm. long, 3-6.2 cm. wide, narrowly or broadly cuneate at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex and very abruptly and shortly obtuse-acuminate, thick-coriaceous, dark-green above, lustrous, glabrous, the venation impressed, beneath brownish, sparsely strigose along the veins or glabrous, the costa broad, prominent, the lateral veins prominulous, 6 or 7 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 45° or more; inflorescence axillary, cymose-paniculate, rather few-flowered, 2.5-5 cm. long, the peduncles about as long as the petioles, the branches sparsely strigose, the flowers on pedicels 1-5 mm. long, bracts linear or subulate, 2-5 mm. long, the bractlets minute, subulate; hypanthium densely whitish-pubescent with minute appressed hairs; calyx-lobes 5, lance-oblong, 1-1.5 mm. long, obtuse or acutish, erect or spreading; corolla yellowish-white, becoming brown, retrorse-pilose outside with short whitish appressed hairs, the tube slender, ampliate above, 3-4 mm. long, annular-thickened in the throat, the 5 lobes rounded, spreading, about half as long as the tube, puberulent within; anthers included, the filaments short; capsule subglobose, bisulcate, 5-6 mm. long, dark reddish-brown, puberulent; seeds compressed, 2-3 mm. long, yellowish, reticulate, broadly winged, the wings irregularly dentate or laciniate.
Type locality: Mountains of Dominica.
Distribution: Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Vincent.