Sabicea mexicana Wernham

Sabicea mexicana Wernham, Monog. Sabicea 41. 1914
Sabicea glabrescens Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 33, in part. 1881. Not 5. glabrescens Benth. 1841.
Scandent shrub, the branchlets pilose with subappressed hairs; stipules broadly ovate, 10 mm. long and 8 mm. wide or smaller, acuminate; petioles about 1 cm. long; leaf-blades lance-oblong, ovate-oblong, or elliptic-oblong, 8-12 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wide, obtuse or acute at the base, short-decurrent, subabruptly acuminate or long-acuminate at the apex, with an acute acumen, copiously hirsute, sometimes strigose beneath along the veins, the venation prominent beneath; inflorescence rather lax, strigose or hirsute, subsessile, the flowers shortpedicellate or partly sessile; bracts inconspicuous; calyx-lobes linear, acuminate, 6-10 mm. long, pilose; corolla white, strigose outside, the tube 10-12 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, acute, 3 mm. long.
Type locality: Mexico.
Distribution : Oaxaca. and perhaps elsewhere in Mexico.