STANDLEY — TEEES AND SHKUBS OF MEXICO 1327 



Chiapas. Guatemala (type locality) and El Salvador. 



Plants chiefly herbaceous, the stems appressed-villous with white hairs; leaves 

 opposite or ternate, short-petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 16 cm. long, acumi- 

 nate, obtuse to attenuate at base, crenate, villous-sericeous, more densely so 

 beneath; corolla about 18 mm. long, villous. "Digital montes," "diente de 

 perro" (El Salvador). 



3. Kohleria fruticosa T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 67. 1914. 

 Type from Cerro del Boqueron, Chiapas. 



-Plants suffrutescent; leaves opposite, short-petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 

 8.5 cm. long, acuminate, obtuse or acute at base, serrulate, cilate, sparsely ap- 

 pressed-villous beneath; peduncles 1-flowered, equaling or shorter than the leaves; 

 calyx lobes lance-linear, fully twice as long as the tube; corolla 3 cm. long. 



4. Kohleria viminalis T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 194. 1915. 

 Type from Finca Irlanda, Chiapas. 



Shrub; leaves short-petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 6 cm. long, acuminate, 

 cuneate at base, denticulate, hirsutulous beneath along the veins; peduncles 

 1-flowered, 7 cm. long; calj^x lobes linear-lanceolate, 1 cm. long; corolla red, 

 3 cm. long, pubescent. 



Not seen by the writer. 



5. Kohleria deppeana (Schlecht. & Cham.) Fritgch in Engl. & Prantl, Pflan- 



zenfam. 4'^: 174. 1894. 



Gesneria deppeana Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5: 110. 1830. 



Gesneria lasiantha Zucc. PI. Nov. 1: 300. 1839. 



Gesneria elongata Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9-: 32. 1842. Not G. elon- 

 gata H. B. K. 1817. 



Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Guerrero; reported from Morelos and Chiapas; type 

 from Jalapa, Veracruz. Guatemala. 



Plants herbaceous or suffrutescent; leaves mostly opposite, on long or short 

 petioles, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, 6 to 17 cm. long, acuminate, obtuse 

 or acute at base, crenate or serrate, villous-sericeous; peduncles equaling or 

 shorter than the leaves, usually 3 or 4-flowered, the pedicels shorter than the 

 peduncles; corolla bright red, about 2.8 cm. long, villous or puberulent. 



6. Kohleria martensii Fritsch, Bot. Jahrb. Engler 50: 428. 1913. 



Gesneria triflora Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9^: 33. 1842. Not Kohleria 

 triflora Regel, 1848. 



Veracruz; type from Mirador. 



Plants slender, suffrutescent, the stems appressed-villous or glabrate; leaves 

 opposite, short-petiolate, lance-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute at 

 base, crenate-serrate, sparsely appressed-pilosulous above; inflorescences longer 

 than the leaves, mostly 3-flowered, the pedicels equaling or shorter than the 

 peduncles; calyx lobes slightly shorter than the narrowly turbinate tube; corolla 

 nearly 3 cm. long. 



7. Kohleria elegans (Decaisne) Loesener, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 7: 574. 1899. 

 Moussonia elegans Decaisne; Planch. Fl. Serr. Jard. 5: pi. 189. 1849. 

 IMoussonia papillosa Hanst. Linnaea 34: 288. 1865-66. 



Isoloma jaliscanum S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 25: 159. 1890. 



Kohleria collina T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 66. 1914. 



Kohleria pedunculata T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 67. 1914. 



Tepic to Chiapas. Type from Guatemala. 



Plants herbaceous or suffrutescent, the stems viUous with mostly spreading 

 hairs; leaves opposite, on short or long petioles, ovate-oblong, 5 to 12 cm. long, 

 acuminate, obtuse or rounded at base, serrate or crenate, usually scabrous above 

 and villous-sericeous beneath; inflorescences equaling or shorter than the leaves, 

 1 to 4-flowered, the pedicels commonly longer than the peduncles; corolla 3 to 

 3.5 cm. long. 



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