Hoffmannia josefina Standl.

Hoffmannia josefina Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 15: 8. 1925
A sparsely branched shrub 3 meters high, the branches terete, glabrous; stipules caducous; leaves large, membranaceous, the stout glabrous petioles 1-1.5 cm. long; leaf-blades obovate or oblong-obovate, 13-22 cm. long, 5.5-9 cm. wide, acute or abruptly short-acuminate, cuneateattenuate at the base, glabrous, deep-green above, paler and minutely puncticulate beneath, the costa stout, prominent, the lateral nerves about 12 pairs, ascending at a wide angle, strongly arcuate, anastomosing close to the margin ; cymes fewor many-flowered, pedunculate, longer than the petioles, the branches glabrous, the pedicels 1-3 mm. long; calyx glabrous or with a few short scattered hairs, the limb 2 mm. long, the lobes narrowly triangular, acute, green; corolla in bud ovoid, acute, in anthesis 1 1 mm. long, glabrous, greenish, the lobes shorter than the tube; fruit subglobose, 6 mm. long, dark-red; seeds numerous, irregularly ovoid, 1 mm. long, brown, coarsely foveolate.
Type locality-: In moist forest between Aserri and Tarbaca, San Jose, Costa Rica, altitude 1800 meters.
Distribution: Moist mountain forests of central Costa Rica.