Rondeletia polita Griseb.

Rondeletia polita Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 326. 1861
Shrub or tree, 1.5-5 meters high, the branches stout, terete or subcompressed, grayish, rimose, glabrous, the internodes very short; stipules 2-3 mm. long, broadly deltoid, acute or cuspidate, erect, rigid, glabrous outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 0.8-2.2 cm. long, glabrous, the blades oval-elliptic, elliptic, or lance-oblong, 7.5-13 cm. long, 2-5.5 cm. wide, acute at the base, obtuse to acuminate at the apex, subcoriaceous, glabrous, dark-green above, lustrous, the costa impressed, the other veins plane, brownish beneath, the costa stout, prominent, the lateral veins prominulous, 6-8 on each side, nearly straight, ascending at an angle of 45° or more, the margins plane; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, 4-9 cm. long, the peduncles slender, mostly longer than the petioles, the branches minutely whitishpuberulent, the flowers subsessile; bracts and bractlets triangular or lanceolate, 3 mm. long or shorter; hypanthium densely grayish-tomentulose outside; calyx-lobes 5, minute, broadly deltoid, less than half as long as the hypanthium; corolla densely tomentulose outside, the tube clavate, 4 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, one third as long as the tube, tomentulose within; anthers oblong-linear, included, the filaments short; capsule subglobose, 2-2.5 mm. long, bisulcate, tomentulose; seeds flat, about 1 mm. long, yellowish, winged.
Type locality: Near St. Anns Bay, Jamaica. Distribution : Mountains of Jamaica.