Rondeletia vacciniifolia Britton

Rondeletia vacciniifolia Britton, Bull. Torrey Club44: 29. 1917
Shrub, 3-13 dm. high, the branches stout, terete, grayish, strigillose when young; stipules deltoid, 1.5-2 mm. long, acuminate, erect; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 1.5-3 mm. long, glabrous, the blades oval or elliptic-oblong, 6-12 mm. long, 2.5-4 mm. wide, acute or acuminate at the base, acutish to rounded at the apex, thick-coriaceous, lustrous above, glabrous, sulcate along the costa, brownish beneath, sparsely strigillose along the costa or glabrous, the costa prominulous, the lateral veins obsolete, the margins subrevolute; flowers axillary, solitary, the peduncles stout, about as long as the petioles, strigose; bractlets deltoid-acuminate, minute; hypanthium densely tomentulose; calyx-lobes 5, linear or spatulate-linear, 2-3 mm. long, obtuse or acutish; capsule globose, 5 mm. in diameter, tomentulose; seeds fusiform, angulate, 1-2 mm. long, reticulate, brown, appendaged at each end.
Type locality: Rocky bank of river, vicinity of Camp San Benito, Oriente, Cuba, at an altitude of 900 meters.
Distribution: Mountains of northern Oriente, Cuba.