Tibey Trepador

Hillia parasitica Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 18. 1760
Hillia longiflora Sw. Prodr. 58. 1788.
Shrub, 0.5-2 meters high, epiphytic upon trees, often pendent, the branches stout, brown; stipules oblong or oval, 1-2.5 cm. long, thin, obtuse or rounded at the apex; petioles stout, 0.4-2.5 cm. long; leaf-blades obovate, oval, elliptic-oval, or oval-obovate, 5.5-14 cm. long, 2.2-6 cm. wide, acute or obtuse at the base, usually rounded or very obtuse at the apex and cuspidate-acuminate, with an acute or obtuse acumen, sometimes acuminate, thick, brightgreen, concolorous, lustrous above, the lateral veins mostly obsolete; bracts large, stipulelike; hypanthium cylindric, 3-5 mm. long; calyx-lobes 6, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, about 4 mm. long, sometimes wanting; corolla-tube 6t10.5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick, the 6 lobes lanceolate or lance-oblong, 2.5-4 cm. long; anthers 4-6 mm. long; capsule 4-12 cm. long, 7-9 mm. thick, brown; seed-body 2-3 mm. long, the brown or yellowish coma 8-12 mm. long.
Type locality: Martinique.
Distribution: Widely distributed in the West Indies; also from Venezuela to Ecuador and Brazil; reported from Mexico.