Rondeletia panamensis DC.

Rondeletia panamensis DC. Prodr. 4: 408. 1830
Rondeletia hirta Bartl.; DC. Prodr. 4: 408, as synonym. 1830. Not R. hirta Sw. 1788.
Shrub or small tree, the branches stout, terete, reddish-brown, lenticellate, pilose-sericeous when young; stipules triangular, 3-7 mm. long, acute or cuspidate, erect, sericeous; leaves opposite, often crowded, the petioles stout, 2-7 mm. long, sericeous, the blades ovate, ovateelliptic, or elliptic-oblong, 5.5-11.5 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate at the base, obtuse to acuminate at the apex, thin, dark-green above and glabrous, or sparsely short-pilose along the veins, paler beneath, appressed-pilose with very short hairs, the costa stout, prominent, the lateral veins slender, 8-10 on each side, arcuateascending; inflorescence terminal and axillary, cymose-corymbose, short-pedunculate, the cymes densely few-flowered, shortpedunculate, the flowers sessile or short-pedicellate; bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, 1 cm. long or shorter; hypanthium densely sericeous; calyx-lobes 5, lanceolate or ovate, 5-8 mm. long, foliaceous, attenuate, ascending; corolla white, densely whitish-pilose or sericeous outside, the tube stout, about 1 cm. long, naked in the throat, the 5 lobes rounded, spreading; capsule globose, 8-10 mm. in diameter, densely short-pilose; seeds numerous, winged.
Type locality: Panama. Distribution: Panama.