Rondeletia camarioca C. Wright

Rondeletia camarioca C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anal. Acad. Habana
6: 102. 1869.
Shrub, 1-2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish or brown, lenticellate, appressed-pilose when young with short, ascending, grayish or fulvous hairs; stipules deltoid, 2-3 mm. long, acute or acuminate, thick, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded at the ends of the branches, the petioles stout, 1-2 mm. long, tomentulose, the blades oval-oblong or oblong, 1-2 cm. long, 0.5-0.8 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, often apiculate, thick-coriaceous, dark-green above, densely and minutely velvety-pilose when young, sometimes glabrate in age and lustrous, the venation obsolete or impressed, beneath densely whitish-tomentulose, the venation prominent, reticulate, the lateral veins 2-4 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an acute angle, the margins revolute or subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, usually 1 -flowered, sometimes 3-flowered, the peduncles stout, 1-3 mm. long; bracts and bractlets minute, deltoid; hypanthium densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 4, oval or ovate-oval, 1—1.5 mm. long, rounded at the apex, minutely sericeous; corolla brownish, the tube slender, about 5 mm. long, retrorse-pilose outside, the 4 lobes rounded, about one third as long as the tube, sericeous outside, puberulent within; anthers included; capsule globose, 3-5 mm. in diameter, tomentulose; seeds 1.5-2 mm. long, compressed, rugulose, brown, exalate.
Type locality: Savannas of Camarioca, Matanzas, Cuba. Distribution: Santa Clara and Matanzas, Cuba.