Lindeniane. N. O. Rubiacee. 
TAB. CDLXXVI. 
LInDENIA RIVALIS. Benth. 
Gen. Cuar. Calycis tubus turbinatus, 5-costatus; limbus 5- 
partitus, laciniis angustis acutis. Corolla hypocrateriformis, 
tubo longissimo tenui equali; limbo 5-partito, laciniis ob- 
longis patentibus, estivatione imbricatis. Anthere 5, lineares, 
sessiles ad corolle sinus, Stylus filiformis e basi glaber, apice 
incrassatus, brevissime bifidus, lobis intus stigmatiferis. Cap- 
sula laciniis calycinis coronata, bilocularis, placentis centra- 
libus. Semina numerosissima angulata.—Frutices Mewicant. 
Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, oblonga, ad apices ramorum 
conferta. Stipule utringue solitarie, fusco-membranacee, acu- 
minate, in vaginem brevem connate, decidue. Corymbus 
terminalis condensatus pauciflorus. Bractez lineares. Flores 
subsessiles, albi. 
Lindenia rivalis ; corolle limbi laciniis obtusiusculis tubo 4-5-ies 
brevioribus. Benth. Pl. Hartw. 84. 
Has. Southern Mexico; on the banks of the river Teapa, 
Linden, Herb. du Sud, n. 331: Guatemala; on the banks of 
streams, La Vera Paz, Hartweg, n. 581. 
This is a shrub of two or three feet high, resembling in many 
respects the Brazilian genus dugustea, but differing in the form 
of the corolla, of which the tube is long, slender and straight 
as in Tocoyena, without the inflated oblique throat of 4ugustea, 
the style is also perfectly smooth. In this the original species 
the leaves become at length nearly smooth and attain the length 
of three or four inches. The tube of the corolla is about five 
inches* long, and the divisions of the limb rather more than an 
inch. Bentham. 
* 
* In Plantw Hartwegianw, by a mistake in copying, it is said to be 5 to 54 
lines, instead of inches, 
