Chomelia microloba Donn. Sm.

Anisomeris microloba (Donn. Smith) Standley, Field Mus Publ. Bot. 4: 293. 1929.
Chomelia microloba Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 31: 1 14. 1901.
An unarmed shrub, the branches slender, gray or brownish, conspicuously lenticellate, the branchlets short-pilose with ascending hairs, the internodes short; stipules 3-4 mm. long, deltoid, long-cuspidate, appressed-pilose outside; petioles stout, 3-6 mm. long, pilose with short spreading hairs; leaf-blades elliptic-oval, oval-oblong, or ovate-oblong, 5-10 cm. long, 3-4.5 cm. wide, very obtusely short-acuminate, rounded or very obtuse at the base, coriaceous, green and glabrous above, paler beneath, short-barbate in the axils of the nerves, elsewhere glabrous, the venation prominent, the lateral nerves 4—5 on each side, arcuate-ascending, the margin plane or subrevolute; cymes axillary, fewor many-flowered, 3.5 cm. wide, the slender peduncles 2-3.5 cm. long, glabrous, the flowers sessile or subsessile, ebracteolate, not secund or only obscurely so; hypanthium turbinate-cylindric, 3 mm. long, sparsely puberulent or glabrous, the calyx-lobes minute, obtuse; corolla densely strigillose outside, the slender tube 8-10 mm. long, slightly dilated upward, glabrous within, the lobes ovate, obtuse, 3 mm. long; anthers 2 mm. long, semi-exserted ; stigma-lobes 1 mm. long.
Type locality: Coastal thickets, Santo Domingo de Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.