Hoffmannia tuerckheimii Donn. Sm.

Hoffmannia tuerckheimii Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 47: 254
1909.
A shrub, the branehlets terete, lenticellate, ferrugino-villous, the internodes elongate; stipules triangular; leaves opposite, the petioles stout, 1.5-2.2 cm. long, villous, the blades ovalovate or rounded-elliptic, 5-6.5 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. wide, rounded or short-decurrent at the base, short-acuminate at the apex, subcoriaceous, glabrous above or villous along the costa, brownish beneath, ferrugino-villous, especially along the veins, the lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, arcuate; flowers 4-parted, few, fasciculate, subsessile, the cymes subsessile; calyx and hypanthium rufous-villous, 3 mm. long, the hypanthium obovoid, the calyx-lobes triangular, subulate, half as long as the hypanthium; corolla sparsely villous, 12 mm. long, the lobes linear, about 5 times as long as the tube; anthers linear-oblong, longer than the filaments.
Type locality: Mountain forests near Cohan, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, altitude 1600 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.