Chomelia brachypoda Donn. Sm.

Anisomeris brachypoda (Donn. Smith) Standley, Field Mus Publ. Bot. 4: 293. 1929.
Chomelia brachypoda Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 47: 255. 1909.
An unarmed shrub, the branches slender, grayish, the branchlets minutely appressed pilose, with short internodes; stipules narrowly triangular, 6-8 mm. long, subulate-attenuatd reddish-brown, sericeous outside, glabrous within; petioles slender, 3-6 mm. long, appressedpilose; leaf-blades lance-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, longacuminate, acute or short-acuminate at the base, chartaceous, green above, glabrous, or sparsely appressed-pilose along the costa, finely lineolate, the venation subimpressed, paler beneath, appressed-pilose along the nerves, the lateral nerves prominent, 4-5 on each side, subarcuate, ascending at an acute angle; cymes 4-8-flowered, the stout peduncles 5-8 mm. long, the flowers sessile, the bracts small, lance-triangular; calyx and hypanthium 2.5-3 mm. long, minutely strigillose, the calyx-lobes minute, triangular; corolla salverform, the tube 11-12 mm. long, glabrous outside, the lobes oval, 2 mm. long, rounded, sparsely strigillose outside; anthers semiexserted, 2 mm. long.
Type locality: Banks of the Rio Ogewaj, near Sasis, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, altitude 900 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.