Bouvardia leiantha Benth.

Bouvardia leiantha Benth. PI. Hartw. 85. 1841
Bouvardia corymbosa Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1852: 46. 1852.
Branches stout, terete, brownish or grayish, densely puberulent and villosulous when young; stipule-sheath 5 mm. long or shorter, long-cuspidate, sometimes glandular-dentate; leaves 3-4-verticillate or opposite, sessile or subsessile, the lowest sometimes with petioles 3 mm. long, the blades ovate, broadly ovate, or ovate-oblong, 3-7 cm. long, 1.3-3 cm. wide, rounded at the base, acute or subabruptly acuminate or attenuate at the apex, thin, brightgreen above, scaberulous or villosulous, shortvillous beneath or densely whitish-tomentose ; inflorescence usually terminal, cymose-corymbose, densely many-flowered, 4-9 cm. broad, the pedicels 1-4 mm. long; hypanthium hemispheric, 1.5 mm. long, hirsutulous or glabrate; calyx-lobes lance-linear, 2-4 mm. long, ciliolate and often hirsutulous; corolla deep-red, glabrous outside, the tube 12-16 mm. long, tapering from the top to the base, 2-2.5 mm. thick above, with a villous ring within near the base, the lobes rounded-ovate, 2-3 mm. long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, erect or ascending; anthers 1.5-2 mm. long, included or exserted, the filaments short or elongate.
Type locality: Near Tejar and Chimaltenango, Guatemala. Distribution: Chiapas to Costa Rica.