Hoffmannia dotae Standl.

Hoffmannia dotae Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 18: 181. 1928 An erect branched shrub 2-4.5 meters high, the young branches obtusely tetragonous, glabrous or sparsely villous, the internodes 2.5-10 cm. long; stipules caducous; leaves large, membranaceous, the petioles 2 cm. long or less, often marginate to the base, glabrous; leafblades oblong-obovate to obovate-elliptic, 18-30 cm. long, 7.5-12.5 cm. wide, abruptly shortacuminate with acute or obtuse tip, narrowed toward the base and abruptly long-decurrent, deep-green and glabrous above, paler beneath, with numerous short pale cystoliths, at first sparsely short-villous along the nerves but soon glabrate, the costa stout and prominent, the lateral nerves 15-17 pairs, arcuate-divaricate, anastomosing close to the margin; cymes axillary, solitary or fasciculate, lax, few-flowered, 5.5 cm. long or shorter, the peduncles sometimes 3.5 cm. long, the bracts caducous, the pedicels 4-12 mm. long, sparsely or densely short-villous; hypanthium turbinate, 4 mm. long, sparsely short-villous; calyx-lobes 2.5-3.5 mm. long, unequal, triangular or narrowly triangular, narrowed to the obtuse or acutish apex, sparsely villous; corolla red below, yellow above, 15 mm. long, glabrous, or sparsely villous on the lobes, acuminate in bud, the tube 4 mm. thick, the 4 lobes linear-lanceolate, equaling the tube; anther-tips slightly exceeding the corolla-tube; stigma oblong, much exceeding the anthers; fruit red, oblong, 8-9 mm. long, 4 mm. thick, sparsely villous; seeds minute, yellowish, shallowly and coarsely foveolati .
Type LOCALITY: In moist forest near Santa Maria de Dota, San Jose, Costa Rica, altitude 1700 meters.
Distribution: Region of the type locality.

Hoffmannia ramonensis Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 18: 180
1928. A shrub, the older branches stout, terete, the younger ones glabrous or nearly so, the internodes 2-6.5 cm. long; stipules caducous; leaves large, opposite, sessile or nearly so, membranaceous, obovate-oblong, 14—28 cm. long, 5.5-10 cm. wide, acute, gradually narrowed below the middle, then rather abruptly long-attenuate into a petioliform portion 3-6 cm. long and 1.5 cm. wide or narrower, acute at the base, deep-green and glabrous above, beneath paler, when very young densely tomentose with loose brownish hairs, in age glabrate except along the short-villous nerves, the slender costa prominent beneath, the lateral nerves about 14 pairs, slender, prominent, divaricate, arcuate, anastomosing close to the margin, the lower surface marked with very numerous short linear cystoliths; cymes axillary, solitary or fasciculate, umbelliform, mostly 2-5-flowered, the stout peduncles 6-15 mm. long, densely brown-tomentose, the bracts caducous, the stout pedicels 2-4 mm. long, densely villous-tomentose; hypanthium turbinate, 2.5-3 mm. long, brown-tomentose ; calyx-lobes 4, narrowdy triangular, 1.5-2 mm. long, narrowed to an obtuse apex, brown-villous on the outer surface; corolla in bud oblong-ovoid, obtuse, 6-7 mm. long, densely villous-tomentose with brown hairs; anthers linear, 5 mm. long, narrowed to the acutish apex.
Type locality: Along the Rio Barranca at San Jnan, near San Ramon, Costa Rica, altitude 1300-1400 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.