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Hoffmannia arborescens Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 37: 417
1904.
A shrub or small tree, the branchlets quadrangular; stipules deciduous; petioles 3-5 mm.
long; leaf-blades oblanceolate-elliptic, 15-19 cm. long, 3.5-5.5 cm. wide, long-attenuate at
the base, acuminate at the apex, subcoriaceous, glabrous, bright-green above, paler beneath,
the lateral nerves 8 or 9 on each side; cymes fascicled, m^ny-flowered, fuscous-pubescent, 2-3.5 cm. long, the flowers 4-parted, the pedicels as long as the calyx, the bracts foliaceous, 1 cm. long; calyx and hypanthium pubescent, the calyx-lobes minute, deltoid; corolla 12 mm. long, pubescent, pale-rose, the lobes oblong-ovate, suberect, about as long as the tube; anthers 4 mm. long, obtuse, the filaments 1 mm. long; ovary 2-celled.
Type locality: In forests. Santa Rosa de Copey, Costa Rica, altitude 1800 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1934. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Hoffmannia decurrens Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20:
205. 1919.
A sparsely branched shrub 1-2.5 meters high, the branches ochraceous, the branchlets
stout, subangulate, rufous-villosulous or glabrate, the internodes short or elongate; stipules
deltoid, minute, caducous; leaves opposite, membranaceous, the stout petioles 0.5-3 cm. long,
villosulous or glabrate; leaf-blades oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 7-20 cm. long,
2-6 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, long-attenuate to the base, dark-green above, glabrous,
paler beneath, with numerous minute pale cystoliths, villosulous along the nerves or finally
glabrate, the lateral nerves slender, arcuate-ascending, 8-10 pairs; cymes axillary or on naked
branches below the leaves, usually many-flowered, sessile or short-pedunculate, the branches
rufous-villosulous, the flowers subsessile, or the pedicels sometimes 5 mm. long, the bracts
minute; calyx and hypanthium rufousvillous or villosulous, the hypanthium obovoid, 2.5-3
mm. long, the calyx-lobes triangular or narrowly triangular, 1-1.5 mm. long, obtuse; corolla
9 nun. long, white tinged with rose, sparsely villous or villosulous, the lobes oblong, obtuse,
slightly shorter than^the tube; fruit oval, red, 6-8 mm. long, villosulous; seeds 1 mm. long,
brown, dull, coarsely foveolate.
Type LOCALITY: Forests of Santa Rosa rie Copey, Costa Rica, altitude 1800-2000 meters. DlSTRTBt TlON: Mountain forests of central Costa Rica, at 1500-2000 meters.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1934. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Hoffmannia hamelioides Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 15: 8
1925.
A sparsely branched shrub 1.5 meters high, the branches glabrous; leaves opposite, membranaceous, the stout petioles 1-3 cm. long, puberulent or glabrous; leaf-blades obovateelliptic or oblanceolate-elliptic, 12-21 cm. long, 4.5-7 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, cuneatedecurrent at the base, glabrous above, paler beneath, villosulous along the nerves, the lateral nerves about 12 pairs, conspicuous, ascending at a broad angle, strongly arcuate; cymes sessile, fewor many-flowered, about equaling the petioles, the branches short-villous; calyx short villous, the lobes 1-1.5 mm. long, narrowly triangular, acutish; corolla in bud ovoid, acutish, 4 mm. long, greenish-white, short-villous; fruit dark-red, subglobose, 7-8 mm. long.
Type locality: In moist forest between Aserri and Tarbaca, San Jose, Costa Rica, altitude 1800 meters.
Distribution: Mountain forests of central Costa Rica.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1934. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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