Hoffmannia ghiesbreghtii (Lem.) Hemsl.

Hoffmannia ghiesbreghtii (Lemaire) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am Bot. 2:36. 1881.
Campylobolrys Ghiesbreghtii Lemaire, 111. Hortic. 8: pi. 279. 1861. Higginsia Ghiesbreghtii [" Gheisbechtii"] Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. 5383. 1863.
A shrub 1 meter high or more, the branches stout, quadrangular, narrowly winged on the
angles, glabrous or nearly so, the internodes usually very short; leaves opposite, sessile or
almost so, oblanceolate-oblong or obovate-oblong, 23-30 cm. long, 6-9 cm. wide, acute or
abruptly acuminate, long-attenuate to the base, membranaceous, bright-green and glabrous
above, paler beneath, sometimes purplish, minutely puberulent, especially on the veins, the
lateral nerves prominulous, about 20 on each side, arcuate-divaricate ; cymes axillary, fewor
many-flowered, dense, subsessile, the flowers 4-parted, sessile or short-pedicellate; calyx and
hypanthium 2 mm. long, puberulent, the calyx-lobes minute, deltoid; corolla yellow, 6 mm.
long, puberulent outside, the lobes narrowly oblong, acute, spreading, equaling or slightly
longer than the tube ; anthers exserted.
Type locality: Described from cultivated plants that probably were of Mexican origin. Distribution: Guatemala; probablv also in the forests of southern Mexico.