Omiltemia longipes Standl.

Omiltemia longipes Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 8: 427. 1918
Shrub, about 3 meters high, the branches stout, grayish, terete, the branchlets slender, puberulent when young, densely leafy; stipules deltoid, about 1 mm. long; leaves mostly ternate, the petioles slender, 2-6 mm. long, puberulent, often marginate to the base, the blades oblanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, 3-7 cm. long, 0.8-1.7 cm. wide, acuminate or long-attenuate at the base, acute to long-attenuate at the apex, often abruptly so, thin, bright-green, concolorous, glabrous above or puberulent along the costa, the venation plane, villosulous beneath along the veins or glabrate, inconspicuously striolate, the costa slender, prominent, the lateral veins prominulous, 4-6 on each side, arcuate; pedicels 1.7-3.5 cm. long, filiform, sparsely shortpilose, the bractlets minute, linear, green; hypanthium very sparsely short-pilose or glabrate, 6—7 mm. long; calyx-lobes 3-4 mm. long; corolla red, about 4 cm. long, the contracted portion of the tube about 1 cm. long and 1.2 mm. thick, the upper portion 5-6 mm. thick, the lobes about 5 mm. long; anthers 7 mm. long, the filaments about 2.5 cm. long; style about 4.5 cm. long; capsule 1.4 cm. long, 2.5-3 mm. thick; seeds brown.
Type locality: Omilteme, Guerrero. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.