Neea psychotrioides J. D. Smith

Neea choriophylla Standley, Contr. U, S. Nat. Herb. 13: 384
1911.
Branches stout, terete, pale-gray or brown, glabrous, the branchlets stout, sparsely ferrugino-puberulent when young but soon glabrate, the internodes short; petioles stout, 4-10 mm. long; leaf -blades oval, oval-oblong, or obovate-oval, broadest at or above the middle, 4.5-7 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, broadly cuneate at the base, abruptly acuminate at the apex with a narrowly triangular acutish acumen 7-15 mm. long, subcoriaceous, dull yellowish-green, concolorous, slightly undulate, sparsely puberulent beneath when young but soon glabrate, raphidulous beneath, the margins plane, the lateral veins evident beneath, arcuate-ascending, 5-8 on each side; peduncles of the pistillate cymes 1.5-3 cm. long, slender, sparsely puberulent 175
or glabrate, the cymes many-flowered, dense,, at least in anthesis, 1.5-3 cm. broad, the branches ferrugino-puberulent, the flowers sessile or on stout pedicels 3 mm. long or shorter; bractlets triangular-oblong, acute, 1 mm. long or shorter, puberulent; pistillate perianth tubular-infundibuliform, 3 mm. long, narrowed at the base, minutely and sparsely puberulent, 4-dentate; style slightly exserted; staminate inflorescence and fruit not known.
Type locality: Yucatan.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Neea sphaerantha Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 384
1911.
Branches slender, grayish, smooth, glabrous; leaves opposite, the petioles 4-10 mm. long, the blades oblong or oval to elliptic-oblong, 1.7-5.3 cm. long, 0.9-2 cm. wide, obtuse or acutish at the apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base; peduncles of the staminate cymes 2.2-4 cm. long, slender, glabrous, the cymes many-flowered, 4 cm. broad or less, the branches sparsely puberulent or glabrate, the bractlets lanceolate, the perianth urceolate, 4-5 mm. long and nearly as broad, short-pedicellate, raphidulous, obscurely 4-dentate at the apex; stamens 6, unequal, slightly more than half as long as the perianth; pistillate flowers and fruit not known.
Type locality: Izamal, Yucatan. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Neea psychotrioides Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 16: 199. 1891
Shrub, 2-3 meters high, the branchlets terete, ferrugino-puberulent when young, glabrate in age, the internodes usually elongate; leaves opposite or the uppermost verticillate, the petioles slender, 2-14 mm. long, the blades elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or narrowly obovate-oblong, 7.5-19 cm. long, 1.6-6.3 cm. wide, cuneate or broadly cuneate at the base, somewhat abruptly acute or acuminate at the apex, with a usually obtuse acumen, thin, deep-green, concolorous, glabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulent beneath along the veins, the margins plane or obscurely revolute, the lateral veins evident beneath, 6-12 on each side, divergent, straight or arcuate; peduncles of the staminate cymes 2.5-12 cm. long, terminal and axillary, slender, puberulent or glabrate, the cymes loosely branched, 5-12 cm. broad, many-flowered, the branches slender, ascending or divaricate, densely ferrugino-puberulent, the flowers subsessile or on slender pedicels 1-5 mm. long, the bractlets triangular-oblong or subulate, 1 mm. long, puberulent, the perianth tubular or suburceolate, 4-8 mm. long, acute at the base, slightly constricted at the mouth, minutely puberulent; stamens 5; peduncles of the pistillate cymes slender, 4-6 cm. long, the cymes 4^9 cm. broad, loosely branched, the branches divaricate, puberulent, the flowers on stout pedicels 0.5-3 mm. long, or sometimes subsessile, the perianth tubular, 3-4 mm. long, puberulent, 5-dentate, the teeth ovate-deltoid, acute; style lightly exserted; fruit 7-9 mm. long, oblong-ellipsoid, the free portion of the perianth 1 mm. long and usually broader; utricle finely striate; seed oblong, 6 mm. long, pale-brown, finely striate.
Type locality: Escuintta, Guatemala, at an altitude of 330 meters. Distribution : Guatemala to Costa Rica.