Thenardia galeottiana Baill.

Thenardia galeottiana Baillon, Bull. See. Linn. Paris 2: 819. 1890
Suffruticose or suffrutescent liana; leaves membranaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, 3-9 cm. long, 0.6-2.5 cm. broad, acimiinate, obtuse at the base, glabrous above, minutely puberulent in the lower axils along the midrib to glabrate beneath, the petioles 4-9 mm. long, glabrous; inflorescence much shorter than the leaves, many-flowered, the primary peduncle 4-6 mm. long, minutely puberulent-papillate, the secondary peduncles scarcely manifest; pedicels 6-8 mm. long; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 4-6 mm. long, minutely puberulent-papillate below, the squamellae broadly oblongdentiform ; corolla subrotate, glabrous or indistinctly papillate externally, the tube 2-2.5 mm. long, about 1 mm. in diameter at the base, about 2 mm. in diameter at the orifice, abruptly constricted at the insertion of the stamens, the lobes obliquely obovate, acute to acuminate, 5-5.5 mm. long, spreading; anthers conspicuously exserted; nectaries about as long as the ovary, or somewhat longer; follicles unknown.
Type locality: Talea, Oaxaca; alt. 1000 meters. Distribution: Oaxaca and Guerrero.

Thenardia gonoloboides Woodson, Ann. Mo. Bot
Gard. 23:274. 1936.
Suffruticose or suffrutescent liana; leaves thinly membranaceous, lanceolate, 4^8 cm. long, 1.3-2.5 cm. broad, narrowly acuminate, obtuse at the base, glabrous, or very minutely puberulent at the base of the midrib beneath, the petioles 5-10 mm. long; inflorescence much shorter than the leaves, many-flowered, the primary peduncle 5-12 mm. long, minutely puberulentpapillate, the secondary scarcely manifest; pedicels 7-8 mm. long, minutely puberulent-papillate; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, narrowly acuminate, 5-7 mm, long, the squamellae narrowly oblongtriangular ; corolla subrotate, glabrous, or very indistinctly papillate externally, the tube 3-3.5 mm. long, about 1.25 mm. in diameter at the base, about 2.5 mm. in diameter at the orifice, abruptly constricted at the insertion of the stamens, the lobes obliquely obovate, obtuse, 6-6.5 mm. long, spreading; anthers conspicuously exserted; nectaries about half as long as the ovary; follicles unknown.
Type locality; Near Oaxaca, Oaxaca; alt. 1950 meters. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.