Hoffmannia pittieri Standl.

Hoffmannia trichocalyx Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 18: 181
1928. A large weak shrub 1-2.5 meters long, often decumbent, the branches thick and stout, terete, ochraceous, rimose, the young branchlets obtusely tetragonous, their internodes 1-4 cm. long, sparsely villous or often glabrous; stipules caducous; leaves large, opposite, membranaceous, the slender petioles 1.5-7 cm. long, sparsely villous or glabrous; leaf-blades elliptic to oblong-elliptic, rarely ovate or obovate, 12-26 cm. long, 4.5-10 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, with acute tip, cuneate to obtuse at the base, usually abruptly contracted and short-decurrent, deep-green and glabrous on the upper surface, beneath usually villous along the nerves but sometimes glabrate, the slender costa prominent, the lateral nerves 10-14 pairs, divaricate, strongly arcuate, prominent, extending nearly to the margin; cymes pendent, borne on naked branches below the leaves, fasciculate, 2.5-14 cm. long, fewor many-flowered, the long and slender peduncles usually villous, dark-red, the bracts deciduous, the pedicels 3-6 mm. long, densely or sparsely villous; calyx-lobes 4, broadly deltoid, acutish, 2 mm. long, sparsely or densely villous; corolla 1 cm. long, bright-yellow or red and yellow, glabrous or sparsely villous outside, the tube 3 mm. thick, cylindric, the lobes triangular-oblong, narrowed to the obtuse apex, about equaling the tube; berry 2-celled, oval, 8 mm. long, 5 mm. thick, dark-red, glabrous or sparsely villous.
Type locality: In wet forest at Fraijanes, Alajuela, Costa Rica, altitude 1600 meters. Distribution: Vicinity of the type locality.

Hoffmannia leucocarpa Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 15: 9
1925. A shrub 2 meters high, simple or with few branches, glabrous throughout; stipules deciduous; leaves large, opposite, the stout petioles 3-6.5 cm. long; leaf -blades elliptic or lanceelliptic, 15-25 cm. long, 6-12 cm. wide, subabruptly acuminate, acute or cuneate at the base, sometimes rather abruptly contracted and short-decurrent, bright-green above, somewhat paler beneath, the stout costa prominent, the lateral nerves about 13 pairs, arcuate, divergent at almost a right angle; cymes equaling or often much exceeding the petioles, lax, fewor many-flowered, the branches bright-red, the slender pedicels 5-12 mm. long; calyx 2-3 mm. long, red, the lobes deltoid, acute, erect; corolla red, in bud acute, 7 mm. long, the lobes longer than the tube, glabrous outside; fruit subglobose, 1 cm. long, white.
Type locality: In wet forest at Las Nubes, San Jose, Costa Rica, altitude 1600 meters. Distribution: Wet forest in the mountains of central Costa Rica, at 1300-1700 meters.

Hoffmannia pittieri Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 140
1916.
Herbaceous, or suffrutescent at the base, the stems simple, stout, terete, glabrous, the internodes elongate; stipules triangular, acute; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 2-3 cm. long, glabrous, the blades oblong-obovate or oblong-oval, 12-24 cm. long, 6-9 cm. wide, acute or attenuate at the base, subabruptly acuminate at the apex, chartaceous, glabrous, brightgreen above, paler beneath, the lateral nerves prominent, about 12 on each side, arcuately ascending or subdivaricate; cymes sessile or short-pedunculate, many-flowered, the branches puberulent, the flowers 4-parted, pedicellate, the pedicels in fruit sometimes 5 mm. long, the bracts small, oblong-linear; calyx and hypanthium 2 mm. long, sparsely puberulent, the calyxlobes minute, ovate, obtuse; corolla yellowish-white, pruinose-puberulent, at least above; fruit subglobose, 5 mm. long, glabrous; seeds numerous, brown, foveolate.
Type locality: Humid forest between Alto de las Palmas and top of Cerro de la Horqueta, Chiriqui, Panama, altitude 2100 to 2250 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Hoffmannia carpinterae Standley
Hoffmannia macrophylla Standlev. Jour. Wash. Acad. 15: 9. 1925. Not H. macrophx'.la Ilemsl. 1881.
A shrub 3 meters high, with few stout branches, glabrous throughout, the stems green; leaves large, membranaceous, sessile or nearly so, the blades decurrent to the base, oblongobovate, 21-35 cm. long, 8-10 cm. wide, abruptly acute, long-attenuate to the base, brightgreen, the lateral nerves numerous, ascending at a wide angle, slender, strongly arcuate, anastomosing close to the margin; cymes sessile or pedunculate, 3-4 cm. long, laxly lewflowered, the pedicels 3-8 mm. long; calyx red, shallowly lobate, the lobes rounded-deltoid, 1.5 mm. long; corolla in bud cylindric, obtuse, 6 mm. long, red outside, the lobes yellow within, twice as long as the tube.
Type locality: In wet forest, Cerro de la Carpintera, Cartago, Costa Rica, altitude 1700 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.