Hoffmannia amplexifolia Standl.

Hoffmannia amplexifolia Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 15: 8
1925. Stems simple, herbaceous, 1—1.5 meters high, glabrous, sharply quadrangular; stipules deciduous; leaves large, membranaceous, ternate, sessile, oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, 23-35 cm. long and 8-13 cm. wide or larger, acuminate or long-acuminate, long attenuate t<> the very narrow, deeply cordate, clasping base, glabrous and brighl green above, beneath minutely puberulent along the nerves, the lateral nerves vers slender, strongly arcual pairs or more; cymes clustered in the leaf-axils, many flowered, 3 -8 cm. long, lax, sessile, the branches densely villosulous, the flowers slender-pedicellate; calyx reddish, short-villous, the lobes narrowly triangular, obtuse; corolla greenish-yellow, puberulent or villosulous, in bud 5 mm. long, the lobes longer than the tube; berries red.
Type locality: In moist forest near Orosi. Cartago, Costa Rica. DlSTRTBi HON: Vicinity of the type locality.