Rondeletia baracoensis Britton

Rondeletia baracoensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 27
1917.
Branches stout, terete, grayish, densely retrorse-pilosulous when young with grayish hairs; stipules broadly deltoid, about 2 mm. long, acute or cuspidate, erect, thick, strigillose or sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded at the ends of the branches, the petioles stout, 3-5 mm. long, tomentulose, the blades oval, broadly oval, or oval-oblong, 1.5-2.2 cm. long, 0.S-1.4 cm. wide, rounded or obtuscat the base, rounded at the apex, coriaceous, dark-green above, densely and minutely pilosulous when young, glabrate in age, the venation obsolete, beneath densely grayishtomentulose when young, glabrate in age, the venation prominent, the lateral veins stout, 3-5 on each side, divaricate or widely ascending, the secondary veins prominently reticulate, the margins revolute or subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, subcapitate, usually 3-flowered, the peduncles stout, 3-10 mm. long, the flowers sessile; bracts and bractlets minute, deltoid; hypanthium tomentulose; calyx-lobes 4, ovate-deltoid, 1-1.5 mm. long, obtuse, minutely sericeous; corolla-tube clavate, 5 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose, the 4 lobes rounded, one third as long as the tube, sericeous outside, puberulent within ; anthers included ; capsule globose, densely whitish-tomentulose.
Type locality: Vicinity of Baracoa, Cuba. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.