Rondeletia ochracea Urb.

Rondeletia ochracea Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 392. 1912
Tree, the branches very stout, terete or subcompressed, grayish-brown, rimose, densely fulvous-pilose when young with short ascending hairs, the internodes very short; stipules deltoid, acute or acuminate, 6-9 mm. long, rigid, erect, densely appressed-pilose within; leaves opposite, the petioles very stout, 1.5-4 cm. long, densely fulvous-pilose, the blades oval, ovalelliptic, or elliptic, 8-15.5 cm. long, 3.5-7 cm. wide, obtuse to acute at the base, sometimes short-decurrent, very obtuse to acute at the apex, coriaceous, rugulose, lustrous above, brightgreen, at first sparsely pilose but soon glabrous, beneath densely covered with a close, short, grayish or fulvous tomentum, the venation impressed above, prominent and reticulate beneath, the costa very stout, the lateral veins stout, 6-9 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of 50° or more; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves, the peduncles 1.5-5 cm. long, the stout pedicels 1.5-2 mm. long; bracts sometimes foliaceous, usually lanceolate or triangular and 1.5-3.5 mm. long; hypanthium densely whitishtomentulose; calyx-lobes 5, deltoid, minute, half as long as the hypanthium; corolla ochraceous, densely retrorse-pilose outside with short whitish hairs, the tube subcylindric, 8-9 mm. long, stout, the 5 lobes rounded, about one fourth as long as the tube, pilosulous within; anthers included, 2 mm. long, the filaments short; capsule globose, about 4.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Forests near Constanza, Santo Domingo, at an altitude of 1250 meters. Distribution: Mountains of Santo Domingo.