Rondeletia odorata Jacq.

Rondeletia odorata Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 16. 1760
Rondeletia obovata L. Syst. ed. 12. 163. 176". [Typographical error for R. odorata.] Rondeletia coccinea Moc. & Sess6; DC. Prodr. 4: 408, as synonym. 1830. Rondeletia speciosa Lodd. Bot. Cab. pi. 1893. 1832. Rondeletia rigida Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 505. 1862.
Shrub, 0.6-2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, reddish-brown or grayish, densely fulvousor ferruginous-hirtellous when young; stipules triangular or triangular-lanceolate, 2-10 mm. long, attenuate or cuspidate, erect, persistent, brown, sericeous outside; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-7 mm. long, strigose, the blades oval, oval-oblong, oblong, or obovate-oblong, 2-10 cm. long, 1-4.5 cm. wide, obtuse to subcordate at the base, rounded to acute at the apex, thick-coriaceous, lustrous above and usually very scabrous, beneath hirtellous, strigose along the veins, sometimes glabrate in age, often rugose, the costa very stout and prominent, the lateral veins stout, prominent, 3-6 on each side, ascending usually at an acute angle, the margins commonly revolute; inflorescence terminal, cymose-corymbose, the peduncles stout, 3 cm. long or shorter, the cymes fewor many-flowered, dense, the pedicels 1 cm. long or shorter; bracts linear to oval, often foliaceous, the bractlets linear; hypanthium densely pilose; calyx-lobes 5, linear or spatulate-linear, 3-6 mm. long, obtuse or acute, sparsely pilose, erect; corolla bright orange-red, minutely sericeous or hirtellous outside, the tube slender, about 15 mm. long, the throat annulate, the 5 lobes rounded, 3-5 mm. long; anthers and style included; capsule globose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, densely short-pilose; seeds numerous, angulate, yellow.
Type locality: Coastal thickets, Havana, Cuba.
Distribution : Cuba; Panama.