Rondeletia nipensis Urb.

Rondeletia nipensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 393. 1912
Shrub, about 1.3 meters high, the branches stout, terete, reddish-brown, lenticellate , densely pilose when young with fulvescent ascending hairs; stipules broadly deltoid, 3.5-5 mm. long, acuminate or cuspidate, thick, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-7 mm. long, pilose, the blades oval, ovate-oval, or oval-oblong, 1.5-5.5 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, coriaceous, dark-green above, dull, glabrous, or when young sparsely strigillose along the costa, the venation impressed, beneath strigose along the veins, densely whitish-tomentulose when young, in age glabrate, the venation prominent, reticulate, the lateral veins about 4 on each side, ascending at an angle of 50-60°, subarcuate, the margins subrevolute; inflorescence axillary, capitate, usually 3-flowered, the peduncles stout, 4 cm. long or shorter, the flowers sessile; bracts sometimes foliaceous, usually deltoid-acuminate and 3-4 mm. long; hypanthium densely pilose outside; calyx-lobes 4, ovate-deltoid, obtuse, 1.5-2 mm. long; corolla white, the tube densely retrorse-pilose outside with yellowish hairs.
Type locality: In pinelands, Sierra Nipe, near Woodfred, Oriente, Cuba, at an altitude of 500 to 650 meters.
Distribution: Sierra Nipe, Oriente, Cuba.