Leonard (in Bot. Maya Area: Misc. Pap. 10 (1936) 
204-205) states that Ruellia Harveyana is known only 
from Guatemala and British Honduras. Schultes & Reko 
767, therefore, extends the range of this species north- 
westward, placing it in Mexico for the first time. 
RUBIACEAE 
Faramea Schultesii Standley sp. nov. 
Arbuscula omnino glabra, ramis gracillimis in sicco 
nigris et striatis, superioribus 1.5 mm. crassis, interno- 
diis brevibus; stipulae brevissime coalitae fere semiorbic- 
ulares, 1.5 mm. longae, apice obtusissimae et in setam 
erectam rigidam 4-6 mm. longam contractae; folia inter 
minora, breviter petiolata, in sicco fusca, valde membra- 
nacea, petiolo tenui 4-9 mm. longo; lamina angustissime 
lanceolato-oblonga, 9-10.5 em. longa, 18-21 mm. lata, 
longissime et anguste attenuato-acuminata acumine ipso 
obtuso, basi acute angustata, supra in sicco sublucida, 
costa nervisque prominulis, subtus concolor, costa tener- 
rima prominenti, nervis lateralibus utroque latere circa 
decem tenerrimis obscuris angulo fere recto abeuntibus 
brevibus irregularibus prope marginem conjunctis, ven- 
ulis obscuris laxe reticulatis; flores visi (an normales?) 
ex axillis superioribus nascentes, solitarii, pedicellis gra- 
cillimis usque ad 2 em. longis, sursum paullo dilatatis: 
hypanthium brevissimum, in pedicellum sensim attenu- 
atum, calyce vix ultra 1 mm. longo, profunde dentato; 
corolla extus glabra, tubo gracili cylindraceo 2 cm. longo, 
1.5 mm. crasso cum fauce glabro, lobis quattuor lanceo- 
lato-linearibus intus glabris anguste obtusis circa 18 mm. 
longis. 
A shrub or small tree, glabrous throughout, the branch- 
es very slender, black and striate when dry, the terminal 
ones 1.5 mm. thick, the internodes short; stipules very 
shortly connate, almost semiorbicular, 1.5 mm. long, 
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