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.

Rondeletia christii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Urb. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1903.