Roigella correifolia (Griseb.) Borhidi & M. Fernández

Rondeletia correifolia Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 129. 1866
Shrub, 2.5 meters high or less, the branches very stout, terete or subangulate, grayishbrown, densely and very minutely hirtellous or scaberulo-sericeous when young with grayish hairs, the internodes mostly shorter than the leaves; stipules 5-6 mm. long, the base roundeddeltoid, cuspidate, erect, rigid, brown, minutely sericeous outside; leaves opposite, sessile or nearly so, the broad flat petioles sometimes 4 mm. long, the blades oval or oblong-oval, 4.5-8 cm. long, 2.5-5.2 cm. wide, subcordate at the base, rounded or obtuse at the apex, sometimes apiculate, rigid-coriaceous, deep-green above, glabrous, beneath brown, minutely sericeous beneath along the veins, elsewhere sparsely puberulent or glabrous, the venation plane or subimpressed above, the costa prominent beneath, the lateral veins prominulous, slender, about 6 on each side, straight or subarcuate, ascending at an angle of 45° or more; inflorescence axillary, cymose, few-flowered, the peduncles stout, about as long as the leaves, the pedicels very stout, 1.5 cm. long; bracts verticillate, resembling the leaves but smaller, the bractlets linear, 5 mm. long or shorter; hypanthium densely and minutely grayishor fulvous-pilose outside; calyxlobes 5, triangular-oblong, 4—7 mm. long, acute or subobtuse, sericeous inside, erect, often with small intermediate lobes ; corolla white, very densely retrorse-pilose outside, with white or fulvous hairs, the tube cylindric, 12 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. thick, the throat ampliate, 5-7 mm. long, the lobes 5 or 6, obovate-orbicular, about 7 mm. long, tomentulose within, the throat naked; anthers included, subsessile, 3 mm. long, inserted at the base of the throat; capsule pyriform, 12-15 mm. long, acute at the base, truncate at the apex, densely short-pilose; seeds numerous, irregular, angulate or compressed, 1-2 mm. long, appendaged at each end, brown, punctulate.
Type locality: Western Cuba.
Distribution: Pinelands and savannas, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and the Isle of Pines.