Bouvardia dictyoneura Standl.

Bouvardia dictyoneura Standley, sp. nov
Stems slender, terete, herbaceous or suffruticose, grayish, glabrous, or sparsely pilose at the nodes; stipules short, subulate; leaves opposite, sessile or short-petiolate, the blades lanceolate or lance-ovate, 2.5-9 cm. long, 1.2-4 cm. wide, rounded at the base, long-attenuate to the apex, membranaceous or chartaceous, prominently reticulate-veined, concolorous, glabrous, the costa and lateral veins impressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins 5 or 6 on each side, arcuate-ascending; inflorescence terminal, cymose-corymbose, usually manyflowered, the pedicels slender, 3-10 mm. long; hypanthium glabrous, hemispheric, 1-1.5 mm. long, costate; calyx-lobes linear-subulate, 2.5-3.5 mm. long; corolla glabrous outside, the tube stout, about 11 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. thick, with a villous ring within near the base, the lobes ovate-oval, 3.5-4 mm. long, acute or acutish, ascending; anthers sessile, included, 2.5 mm. long; style included; capsule subglobose, 4-5 mm. broad, costate, reticulate-veined.
Type collected at Chichorras, Chiapas, February, 1896, E. W. Nelson 3757 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 256554).
Distribution: Chiapas.