Hoffmannia piratarum Standl.

Hoffmannia piratarum Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 18: 180
1928. A shrub, the young branchlets stout, obtusely tetragonous, glabrous, the internodes 1.5-3 cm. long; stipules caducous; leaves opposite, membranaceous, the slender petioles 2.5-4.5 cm. long, glabrate; leaf-blades lance-oblong, 10-20 cm. long, 5-6 cm. wide, long-acuminate, with narrow, long-attenuate, often falcate tip, deep-green and glabrous above, paler beneath, when very young sparsely short-villous with ferruginous hairs but soon glabrate, the costa prominent, rather stout, the lateral nerves 8 or 9 pairs, very slender, strongly ascending, arcuate, irregularly anastomosing close to the margin; cymes axillary, solitary or fasciculate, dense, few-flowered, 3 cm. long or shorter, the peduncles 2.5 cm. long or less, glabrous or nearly so, the bracts caducous, the pedicels 2-5 mm. long, usually sparsely short-villous; hypanthium 3 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely short-villous; calyx-lobes 4, triangular-oblong, 2-3 mm. long, acute, villous-ciliate with short hairs; corolla 1 cm. long, in bud oblong, obtuse, glabrous or with a few short hairs at the apex, the tube obconic, 2 mm. wide at base, 5 mm. wide in the throat, the 4 lobes oblong-triangular, slightly shorter than the tube ; fruit subglobose, 2-celled, 6 mm. long, glabrous; seeds minute, subglobose, dark-brown, coarsely and deeply foveolate.
Type locality: In wet forest in the Wafer Valley, Cocos Island, Costa Rica, altitude 200 meters or less.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.