Rondeletia combsii Greenm.

Rondeletia combsii Greenman; Combs, Trans. Acad. St. Louis
7: 427. 1897.
Shrub or small tree, 2.5-5 meters high, the branches stout, terete, reddish-brown or grayish, lenticellate, densely appressed-pilose when young with short yellowish hairs; stipules deltoidacuminate, 2-4 mm. long, thick, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-3 mm. long, tomentulose, the blades oblong, elliptic-oblong, or obovate-oblong, usually 1.5-5 cm. long and 0.5-1.1 cm. wide, acute at the base, acute or obtuse at the apex, thick-coriaceous, densely and minutely velvety-pilose above, the venation impressed, beneath densely and finely grayish-tomentulose, the venation prominent, reticulate, the lateral veins ascending at an acute angle, the margins revolute; inflorescence axillary, usually 3-flowered, the peduncles stout, 2-5 mm. long, the flowers sessile; bracts minute, deltoid; hypanthium densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 4, narrowly triangular or oblong, 1-2 mm. long, acute: corolla-tube 5 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose outside, the 4 lobes rounded, about one third as long as the tube; anthers included; capsule globose, about 4 mm. in diameter, tomentulose.
Type locality: Calicita, Santa Clara, Cuba.
Distribution: Rocky shores and hillsides, Santa Clara and Havana, Cuba.