Rondeletia ligulata Urb.

Rondeletia ligulata Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 503. 1908
Shrub or small tree, 2.5-6 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish, densely longpilose when young, the internodes very short; stipules sheathing, 1.5-2 cm. long, filiform-cuspidate, thin, brown, deciduous, long-pilose outside, pilose-sericeous within; leaves opposite, the petioles 7-12 mm. long, densely long-pilose, the blades obovate, elliptic, or narrowly ellipticoblong, 4.5-10 cm. long, 1.7-3.5 cm. wide, subobtuse to attenuate at the base, acute or acutish at the apex, chartaceous, dark-green above, setose-pilose with long fulvous hairs, the venation plane or impressed, beneath paler, densely pilose with very long soft hairs, the venation prominent, the lateral veins 3-5 on each side, ascending at an angle of 25-40°, the margins plane; inflorescence axillary, 1 -flowered, subsessile or on a peduncle 8 mm. long or shorter; bracts connate, 11-13 mm. long, inclosing the flower in bud, long-pilose, the pedicels about 1 mm. long, the bractlets linear-subulate, 4-8 mm. long; hypanthium densely long-pilose; calyx-lobes 5, lanceolate, 5-7 mm. long, erect or ascending; corolla yellow, densely appressed-pilose outside with long hairs, the tube cylindric, 10 mm. long, the 5 lobes rounded, 4—5 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent within, the throat annularthickened ; anthers included, 2-3 mm. long, the filaments very short; capsule globose, 5 mm. long, densely pilose; seeds 1-1.5 mm. long, wingappendaged at each end.
Type locality: Near Troy, Jamaica, at an altitude of 660 to 830 meters. Distribution: Jamaica.