Chione venosa var. venosa

Anisomeris sylvicola (Standley)
Chomelia sylvicola Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 18: 182. 1928.
A shrub, glabrous throughout, the slender branches subterete, the older ones grayish, rimose, the internodes 1.5-6.5 cm. long; stipules distinct, ovate-oval, 3 mm. long, obtuse, deciduous; petioles slender, 7-12 mm. long; leaf-blades elliptic-oblong, 6.5-8 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, rather abruptly attenuate to an obtuse tip, acute and decurrent at the base, subcoriaceous, deep-green and dull above, the venation inconspicuous, somewhat paler beneath, domatiate in the axils of the nerves, the slender costa prominent, the lateral nerves about 6 on each side, ascending, arcuate, the margin plane; inflorescence terminal, cymose-paniculate, open, rather few-flowered, the peduncle 2 cm. long, the branches slender, stiff, the bracts triangular, 1-1.5 mm. long, green; pedicels slender, 10-12 mm. long, stiff; fruit obovoid, terete, finely costate, about 18 mm. in total length and 7 mm. in diameter, acute at the base, lustrous, prolonged within the calyx into a conic obtuse projection 4-5 mm. long, 2-celled, the endocarp hard and osseous; calyx persistent, cupular, 2 mm. long, green, the margin undulate.
Type locality: In wet forest at Yerba Buena, northeast of San Isidro, Heredia, Costa Rica, altitude about 2000 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.