Neea tenuis Standl.

Neea tenuis Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 384. 1911
Branches slender, smooth, brownish, glabrous; leaves opposite, or the upper verticillate, the petioles about 3 mm. long, the blades elliptic-oblong or lance-elliptic, 4.4-5 cm. long, 1.4—1.9 cm. wide, broadest at or slightly below the middle, obtuse or acutish at the base, rather abruptly attenuate or long-acuminate at the apex, thin, glabrous; peduncles of the staminate cymes 6-7 cm. long, slender, almost filiform, flexuous, pendulous, glabrous, the cymes loosely many-flowered, 4 cm. wide and about as long, the slender branches spreading, sparsely rufo-puberulent or glabrate, the bractlets lance-subulate, the pedicels filiform, equaling or longer than the flowers, the perianth urceolate, 3-4 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so; stamens 6, one third as long as the perianth, the filaments unequal; pistillate flowers and fruit not known.
Type locality: About Orizaba, Veracruz. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.