Hoffmannia tubiflora Griseb.

Hoffmannia tubiflora Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 321. 1861 A shrub 0.8-1.2 meters high, the branches stout, terete or obtusely quadrangular, reddishbrown, glabrous or sparsely villosulous, the internodes short; petioles stout, 1.2-3.5 cm. long, glabrous or sparsely villosulous, the blades elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 7.5-21 cm. long, 3-6.5 cm. wide, acute, acuminate, or attenuate at the base, acuminate or cuspidate-acuminate at the apex, membranaceous, deep-green above, glabrous, pale beneath, sparsely ferruginousvillosulous along the veins or glabrate, the lateral nerves slender, 7-10 on each side, arcuateascending; cymes sessile, few-flowered, the flowers 4-parted, short-pedicellate; calyx and hypanthium 2.5 mm. long, sparsely villosulous or glabrate, the calyx-lobes minute, deltoid; corolla yellowish, glabrous, the lobes oblong, subobtuse, shorter than the tube, suberect panthers oblong, semi-exserted, equaling or longer than the filaments; fruit oblong, 6 mm. long or larger; seeds very minute, brown, coarsely foveolate.
Type locality: St. Vincent.
Distribution: Martinique, St. Vincent, and Guadeloupe.