Rondeletia christii Urb.

Rondeletia christii Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 377. 1903
Shrub, 3-4 meters high, the branches terete, grayish-brown, rimose, densely whitishsericeous with short hairs when young; stipules triangular, 4—5 mm. long, subacuminate, sericeous outside, villosulous within; leaves opposite, the petioles 8-12 mm. long, the blades ovalelliptic or elliptic-oblong, 5-9 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, acute or obtuse at the base, narrowed to the acute apex, coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath sparsely appressed-pilose with short hairs, the costa prominent beneath, the lateral veins prominulous, 6-8 on each side, the margins recurved; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, few-flowered, 1.5-2 cm. long, whitish-sericeous, the pedicels 1-2 mm. long; bracts lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, the bractlets 1 mm. long or shorter; hypanthium tomentose; calyx-lobes 5, triangular-lanceolate, 0.7-1 mm. long, slightly shorter than the hypanthium; corolla retrorse-pilosulous outside, the tube cylindric, 6 mm. long, glabrous within, the 5 lobes suborbicular, one third as long as the tube or shorter, whitishtomentulose within; anthers included, 1.7 mm. long, the filaments very short.
Type locality: Fessard, Haiti.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.