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Shrub, about 1 meter high; leaves short-petiolate, ovate or lance-ovate, 1.5 to 

 4.5 cm. long, acute or acuminate, sparsely puberulent or glabrate beneath; 

 corolla 8 to 11 mm. long; capsule 3.5 mm. long. 



8. Deppea obtuaiflora Benth. PI. Hartw. 349. 1857. 

 Choristes obtusiflora Benth. PI. Hartw. 63. 1840. 

 Oaxaca; type from Llano Verde. 



Leaves short-petiolate, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, acute at base, villo- 

 sulous beneath along the nerves; corolla 8 to 9 mm. long. 



9. Deppea grandiflora Schlecht. Linnaea 19: 748. 1847. 

 Deppea floribunda Hemsl. Diag. PI. Mex. 31. 1879. 

 Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. Costa Rica and Panama. 



Shrub, 1 to 2.5 meters high; leaves slender-petiolate, oblanceolate to obovate 

 or obovate-ovate, acuminate, puberulent or villosulous beneath; corolla 6 to 8 

 mm. long; capsule 3 to 5 mm. long. 



8. OMILTEMIA Standi. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 8: 427. 1918. 



A single species is known. 

 1. Omiltemia longipes Standi. Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 8: 427. 1918. 



Type from Omilteme, Guerrero. 



Shrub, about 3 meters high; leaves mostly ternate, short-petiolate, oblanceo- 

 late or oblanceolate-oblong, 3 to 7 cm. long, acute to long-attenuate, villosulous 

 beneath along the nerves or glabrate; flowers red, axillary, solitary, long-pedi- 

 cellate; calyx 4-lobate; corolla tubular, 4 cm. long, glabrous, the 4 lobes short, 

 acuminate, contorted; capsule 2-celled, 14 mm. long, cylindric, the seeds numer- 

 ous, angulate. 



7. LINDENIA Benth. PI. Hartw. 84. 1841. 



A single species is known. 

 1. Lindenia rivalis Benth. PI. Hartw. 84. 1841. 



Lindenia acutiflora Hook. Icon. PI. pi. Ii.75. 1842. 



Along streams, MichoacAn to Veracruz, Tabasco, and Oaxaca. Guatemala to 

 Panama; type from Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 



Shrub, 1 meter high or less; leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, short- 

 petiolate, oblanceolate to linear-oblong, 3.5 to 16.5 cm. long, acute or attenuate, 

 puberulent or pilosulous beneath, rarely glabrous; flowers short-pedicellate, in few- 

 flowered terminal cymes; calyx tube elongate, 5-angulate, the limb 4-lobate; 

 corolla white, salverform, the tube 10 to 16 cm. long, pilosulous, the lobes elliptic 

 or oblong-oval, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, acute or obtuse; capsule 2-celled, pyriform, 

 1.2 to 2 cm. long; seeds numerous, small, angulate. "Pimienta deagua" (Oaxaca, 

 Reko); "flor de Maria" (Guatemala); "lirio" (Costa Rica). 



8. STYLOSIPHONIA T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 70. 1914. 



A single species is known. 

 1. Stylosiphonia glabra T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 70. 1914. 



Type from Chiapas. 



Shrub; leaves slender-petiolate, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 

 6.5 to 14 cm. long, abruptly long-acuminate, acute or attenuate at base, sparsely 

 short-pilose beneath along the nerves or glabrate; inflorescences axillary and ter- 

 minal, cymose, few-flowered, pedunculate; calyx 5-lobate, the lobes narrow, 

 glabrous; corolla salverform, glabrous, the tube slender, 18 mm. long, the 5 lobes 

 lance-linear, contorted, more than half as long as the tube; capsule ovoid, 2-celled, 

 9 mm. long, the seeds numerous, angulate. 



