Rondeletia lomensis Urb.

Rondeletia lomensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 394. 1912
Shrub, about 2.5 meters high, the branches stout, terete, grayish-brown, rimose, retrorsepilose when young with short subappressed fulvous hairs; stipules deltoid, 3-3.5 mm. long, acute or acuminate, erect, thick, short-sericeous; leaves opposite, crowded at the ends of the branches, the petioles stout, 3-5 mm. long, minutely sericeous-pilose, the blades oval, ovateoval, or oblong-oval, 2-4 cm. long, 1.3-2.2 cm. wide, rounded or very obtuse at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, coriaceous, green above, dull, glabrous, or sparsely strigillose along the costa when young, the venation impressed, reticulate, beneath densely whitishpuberulent or in age glabrate, appressed-pilosulous along the veins, the venation prominulous, the lateral veins 3 or 4 on each side, spreading or ascending at an angle of 60° or more, nearly straight, the margins subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, 1-3-flowered, capitate, the peduncles stout, 3-10 mm. long; bractlets deltoid, about 2 mm. long; hypanthium tomentulose; calyxlobes 4, triangular; corolla white; capsule globose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, yellowish-tomentulose.
Type locality: Dry serpentine hill, Loma Santa Teresa, near El Yunque, Oriente, Cuba. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.