Chomelia pringlei S. Watson

Anisomeris pringlei (S. Wats.) Standicy, Field Mus. Publ. Bot
4: 293. 1929.
Chomelia Pringlei S. Wats. Proc Am. Acad. 26: 137. 1891.
An unarmed shrub or small tree 4.5 meters high, the branches brownish-gray, conspicuously lenticellate, the branchlets densely pilose with spreading yellowish hairs; stipules 7 mm. long, lance-triangular, subulate-acuminate; petioles 2-3 mm. long; leaf-blades elliptic, ovalovate, or oval, 4.5-7.5 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, acute or very short-acuminate, rounded at the base, membranaceous, bright-green above, sparsely villosulous when young, becoming glabrate, densely short-pilose beneath; cymes 3-6-flowered, the slender peduncles 1.5-2.5 cm. long, the flowers sessile or subsessile; calyx and hypanthium 3 mm. long, densely pilose, the calyx-lobes lance-oblong, equal, half as long as the hypanthium; corolla 8—9 mm. long, rather sparsely short-pilose outside, the lobes obtuse, 2 mm. long; fruit oblong, 5-6 mm. long, sparsely pilose.
Type locality: Tamasopo Canyon, San Luis Potosi. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.