Rondeletia azuensis Urb.

Rondeletia azuensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 543. 1913
Tree, the branches terete, brownish-black, shortly appressed-pilosulous when young, the internodes 1-2.5 cm. long; stipules triangular-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 3-6 mm. long, erect, shortly appressed-pilose; leaves opposite, the petioles 1.5-3 mm. long, the blades ovate, obovate, or oval, 3-5 cm. long, 1.8-3 cm. wide, obtuse at the base or subacuminate, obtusely short-acuminate at the apex, thick-coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath strigose-pilose along the nerves and elsewhere minutely pilosulous, the venation subprominent beneath, impressed above, the lateral veins 3-5 on each side, ascending at an angle of about 60°; inflorescence terminal and axillary, the terminal inflorescences racemose, sessile, few -flowered, the axillary ones 3-flowered, on peduncles 1-1.5 cm. long, the pedicels 1-3 mm. long; bracts 4—7 mm. long; hypanthium very shortly appressed-pilose; calyx-lobes 5, linear, spatulate-linear, or oblong, 4—7 mm. long, obtuse or acutish; capsule globose, 5-6.5 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: Culo de Maco, Province of Azua, Santo Domingo, at an altitude of 2225 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.