Rondeletia daphnoides Griseb.

Rondeletia daphnoides Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 327. 1861
Branches slender, yellowish-brown, glabrous; stipules deltoid-subulate, broader than long, hairy within; leaves opposite, the petioles 4-6 mm. long, the blades obovate or ellipticoblong, 2.5-7 cm. long, 1.2-3 cm. wide, acute to rounded at the base, obtusely short-acuminate at the apex, lustrous, glabrous, the veins very Slender, scarcely prominulous beneath; inflorescence axillary, cymose-corymbose, few-flowered, glabrous, the pedicels 4 mm. long, slender; hypanthium glabrous; calyx-lobes 5, deltoid-subulate; corolla glabrous outside, salverform, the tube slender, ampliate above, 6-7 mm. long, the lobes one fourth as long as the tube or longer, puberulent within; anthers included, oblong-linear, twice as long as the filaments; capsule globose, 4 mm. in diameter; seeds minute, appendaged at each end.
Type locality: St. Anns, in the valley between Moneague and Lluidas Vale, Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica.