Rondeletia lindeniana A. Rich.

Rondeletia lindeniana A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11: 13
1850.
Shrub, the branches stout, terete, grayish-brown, hirtellous when young, the internodes short or elongate; stipules rounded or subtruncate, about 2 mm. long, long-cuspidate, strigillose, thick, erect; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 1-2 mm. long, strigose, the blades obovate, 1.2-3.5 cm. wide, cuneate at the base, obtuse or very obtuse at the apex, subcoriaceous, strigose along the veins or glabrate, dark-green above, the venation plane or impressed, paler beneath, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins obsolete, the margins subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, 3-flowered, the peduncles slender, mostly equaling or exceeding the leaves, hirtellous, the flowers slender-pedicellate; bracts often large and foliaceous, the bractlets subulate; hypanthium densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 5, linear, 3-5 mm. long, obtuse, sparsely short-pilose, erect; corolla minutely pilose with short whitish appressed hairs, the tube slender, 11-12 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, 2.5 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent within;
anthers included; capsule globose, pliosulous; seeds minute, angulate, exalate.
Type locality: Mountains near Santiago, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Mountains of Oriente, Cuba.