Rondeletia pallida Britton

Rondeletia pallida Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 37: 358. 1910
Tree, 6-10 meters high, the branches stout, terete or compressed, grayish-brown, sparsely strigillose when young, the internodes short; stipules triangular, cuspidate, 3-6 mm. long, rigid, erect, brown, sparsely strigillose or glabrate outside, sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles slender or stout, 1-2.5 cm. long, the blades oblong-oval, narrowly elliptic, ellipticoblong, or lance-oblong, 6.5-18 cm. long, 1.7-7 cm. wide, acute or obtuse at the base, acute to attenuate at the apex, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, bright-green above, glabrous or when young very sparsely slender-pilose, paler and brownish beneath, sparsely and minutely pilosulous or glabrate, the venation plane above, prominent beneath, the costa slender, the lateral veins slender, 6 or 7 on each side, arcuate, ascending at an angle of 45° or more, the margins plane or nearly so; inflorescence axillary, loosely cymose-paniculate or subracemose, 2-6 cm. long, the peduncles slender, equaling or shorter than the petioles, the flowers few, the pedicels 2-5 mm. long; bracts and bractlets linear-subulate, 4 mm. long or shorter, sparsely appressedpilose; hypanthium glabrous or sparsely strigillose; calyx-lobes 5, linear-lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long, attenuate, erect; corolla white or yellowish, glabrous or puberulent outside, the tube cylindric, 7-9 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. thick, scarcely ampliate above, the throat annularthickened, the 5 lobes rounded, 2-2.5 mm. long, spreading, puberulent within; anthers included, 1 mm. long; capsule didymous-globose, 4 mm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, glabrous; seeds flat, irregular, broadly winged, brownish, reticulate.
Type locality: Woodlands, southeastern foothills of the John Crow Mountains, Jamaica, at an altitude of 350 meters.
Distribution: Vicinity of the type locality.

Rondeletia pallida is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica. It is threatened by habitat loss.