Bouvardia quinquenervata Standl.

Bouvardia quinquenervata Standley, sp. nov
Shrub, the branches slender, terete, grayish, minutely hirtellous when young, the internodes elongate; stipule-sheath 3 mm. long or shorter, the lobes acute, cuspidate, dentate; leaves opposite, the petioles slender, 3-4 mm. long, the blades of the lower leaves roundeddeltoid, 3.5-5 cm. long, 2.7-3 cm. wide, subtruncate at the base, acute or acuminate at the apex, those of the upper leaves ovate or lanceolate, 4-5.5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, acute to rounded at the base, subabruptly long-attenuate at the apex, thin, bright-green above, slightly paler beneath, obscurely puberulent along the veins, 5-nerved from the base, the lateral nerves subarcuate, extending almost to the apex; inflorescence terminal, cymose-corymbose, fewor many-flowered, the pedicels 2-6 mm. long; hypanthium hirtellous, 1.5 mm. long; calyx-lobes linear-subulate, 1.5-3 mm. long; corolla sparsely hirtellous outside, the tube 6-8 mm. long, slender, sparsely hirtellous within, the lobes oblong or triangular-oblong, about 3 mm. long, acute, glabrous within; filaments elongate, the anthers exserted, 2 mm. long; style exserted; capsule globose-oblong, 3.5-4 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. wide, shallowly bisulcate, short-hirtellous ; seeds broadly winged.
Type collected at San Bartolome, Chiapas, March, 1904, E. A. Goldman 769 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 470574).
Distribution: Chiapas.