Rondeletia insularis Britton

Rondeletia insularis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 44: 28. 1917
Shrub, about 2 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish-brown, rimose, densely grayish-pilose when young; stipules deltoid, 2-3 mm. long, acute or acuminate, thick, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded, the petioles stout, about 2 mm. long, sericeous-strigillose, the blades obovate, cuneate-obovate, or oval-oblong, 1.7-3 cm. long, 0.7-1.3 cm. wide, acute to attenuate at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, minutely apiculate, thick-coriaceous, dark-green above, dull, minutely pilosulous when young, glabrate in age, the venation obsolete, beneath brownish, strigose along the veins, grayish-puberulent when young but soon glabrate, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins prominulous, 3 or 4 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an acute angle, the secondary veins prominulous, reticulate, the margins revolute ; flowers axillary, solitary, the peduncles stout, 2-3 mm. long; bracts and bractlets minute, deltoid; calyx-lobes ovate-deltoid, 1 mm. long, obtuse, sericeous; capsule globose, 4-5 mm. in diameter, densely tomentulose.
Type locality: Vicinity of Pueblo Romano, Cayo Romano, Camaguey, Cuba. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.