Rondeletia stipularis (L.) Druce

Rondeletia thyrsoidea Sw. Prodr. 41. 1788
? Petesia stipularis L. Syst. ed. 10. 894. 1759.
Rondeletia microcalyx Krug & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 412. 1899.
Shrub or small tree, sometimes 6 meters high, the branches stout, terete or obtusely angulate, grayish, densely grayish-puberulent and antrorse-pilose when young; stipules broadly deltoid, acute or cuspidate, 3-5 mm. long, rigid, erect, appressed-pilose outside, sericeouspilose within; leaves mostly ternate, the petioles stout, 1-2.5 cm. long, puberulent and pilose, the blades narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong to oval-elliptic, 4.5-12 cm. long, 1.6-5 cm. wide, acute to attenuate at the base, sometimes abruptly short-decurrent, acute to attenuate at the apex, subcoriaceous, bright-green and lustrous on the upper surface, glabrous except along the impressed costa, there pilosulous, paler and usually brownish beneath, sparsely pilosulous or puberulent or finally glabrate, the venation prominent beneath, the lateral veins slender, 5-8 on each side, arcuate-ascending at an angle of about 45°, the margins usually subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, paniculate, 2-6.5 cm. long, the peduncles equaling or shorter than the petioles, the flowers few or numerous, sessile or very shortly pedicellate; bracts triangularsubulate, rarely foliaceous; hypanthium densely grayish-tomentulose; calyx-lobes 5, deltoid, minute, one third as long as the hypanthium or shorter; corolla yellowish, cinereo-puberulent outside, the tube cylindric, slightly ampliate above, 4-5 mm. long, the throat annular-thickened, the 5 lobes rounded, spreading, one third as long as the tube or shorter, puberulent within; anthers included, 1.3 mm. long, the filaments very short; capsule didymous-globose, 3 mm. long, 3.5-4 mm. wide, brown, tomentulose; seeds flat, 1-1.5 mm. long, brown, reticulate, narrowly winged, the wing entire or denticulate.
Type locality: Dry hillsides, western Jamaica. Distribution: On hillsides, Jamaica.

Rondeletia tomentosa Sw. Prodr. 41. 1788
Shrub, 1 meter high; stipules deltoid-subulate, strigose; leaves opposite, the petioles 1-2.5 cm. long, short-pilose, the blades lance-elliptic or elliptic, 3.7-7.5 cm. long, 1.8-3.7 cm. wide, acute at the base, obtuse or acute at the apex, puberulent above or glabrate, grayish-scaberulous beneath, short-pilose along the veins; inflorescence axillary, c vmose-paniculate, short-pilose, equaling or longer than the petioles; calyx-lobes 5, deltoid; corolla brownish, short-pilose outside, the tube slender, ampliate above, 5 mm. long, the lobes one fourth as long as the tube, puberulent within; anthers included; capsule subglobose, 2.5-3 mm. in diameter, puberulent; seeds numerous, marginate, with a short appendage at each end.
Type locality: Rocky hills near Spanish Town, Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica.

Rondeletia trifolia Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. 60. 1763
Tree, up to 4 meters high, the branches pilose; stipules deltoid-subulate, pubescent; leaves opposite or ternate, the petioles 8-12 mm. long, pilose, the blades lance-oblong, 7.5-10 cm. long, 2-2.5 cm. wide, acuminate at each end, glabrous above, glabrate beneath or hispidulous along the costa, the venation prominulous beneath; inflorescence axillary, hirsute, paniculate, pedunculate, shorter than the leaves, the flowers pedicellate; calyx-lobes 5, deltoid; corolla reddish, pubescent outside, salverform, the tube slender, ampliate above, 4 mm. long, the 5 lobes one third as long as the tube, puberulent within; anthers included ; seeds winged.
Type locality: Hills along Ferry River, Jamaica.
Distribution: Jamaica.

Rondeletia stipularis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được (L.) Druce miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1914.