Rondeletia buxifolia Vahl

Rondeletia buxifolia Vahl, Eclog. Am. 2:11. 1798
Shrub, 1-2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish-brown, minutely strigillose when young, the internodes very short; stipules subannular, about 1 mm. long, subacuminate, thick, erect, strigillose; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2 mm. long or shorter, strigillose, the blades broadly cuneate-obovate or cuneate-spatulate, 1.3-3.5 cm. long, 0.7-1.7 cm. wide, cuneate at the base, broadly rounded at the apex, sometimes shallowly retuse, coriaceous, dark-green above, lustrous, glabrous, the venation impressed or obscure, brownish beneath, sparsely appressed-pilose along the veins, the costa prominent, the lateral veins obscure, ascending at an angle of 50°-60°, the margins plane or subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, mostly 1 -flowered; sometimes 3-flowered, the peduncles stout, 2 mm. long or shorter; bractlets triangular-acuminate, minute ; calyx-tube whitish-tomentulose, the 4 lobes linear or oblanceolate, 1.5-3 mm. long, acute, strigillose; corolla yellowish, the tube slender, 6-7 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose outside with short whitish hairs, the 4 lobes rounded, one third as long as the tube, puberulent; anthers included; capsule subglobose, 4 mm. long, dark-brown, tomentulose; seeds about 1 mm. long, angulate, brown, reticulate, exalate.
Type locality: Montserrat. Distribution: Montserrat.