Manettia flexilis Brandegee

Manettia flexilis Brand. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 196. 1915
Stems herbaceous, slender, angulate, puberulent or villosulous, the internodes elongate; stipule-sheath short, glandular-ciliate; petioles stout, 2-6 mm. long; leaf-blades ovate, ovateoblong, or lance-ovate, 3-7 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acute or obtuse at the base, acute to longattenuate at the apex, usually subabruptly so, thin, glabrous above or puberulent along the veins, beneath usually short-pilose along the veins, elsewhere sparsely puberulent or glabrous, the lateral veins conspicuous, slender, arcuate; inflorescence axillary, cymose, few-flowered or sometimes 1 -flowered, the peduncles 1.5 cm. long or shorter, the pedicels 0.3-2.5 cm. long; hypanthium 2-3 mm. long, glabrous or pilose, the 4 calyx-lobes linear to lance-ovate, 1.5-4 mm. long, acute, glabrate, recurved, usually ciliate; corolla rose-colored, glabrous outside or sparsely pilose, salverform, the tube stout, 6-7 mm. long, pilose within above the middle, the lobes 2-3 mm. long, densely barbate within; anthers 1.5 mm. long, subexserted; capsule 4.5-7 mm. broad, thin; seeds 2-3 mm. broad, dark-brown.
Type locality: Cerro del Boqueron, Chiapas. Distribution: Chiapas to Costa Rica; also in Ecuador.