Placocarpa mexicana Hook. fil.

Placocarpa mexicana Hook. f. ; Bcnth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 2: 108
1873.
A shrub, 9-12 dm. high, the branches slender, brownish, sparsely lenticellate, the branchlets puberulent, densely leafy; stipules minute; petioles 1-2 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong, elliptic-oblong, lance-oblong, or obovate-oblong, 1-2.2 cm. long, 0.3-0.8 cm. wide, acute or obtuse acute to attenuate at the base, glabrous, green above, the costa prominent, pale beneath, the costa prominulous, the lateral nerves mostly obsolete, the margin plane or subrevolute ; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; calyx and hypanthium glabrous, the hypanthium about 1.5 mm. long, the calyxlobes obovate-oblong, 4 mm. long, obtuse, green; corolla white, the tube 10-12 mm. long, the lobes oval, 2-2.5 mm. long, rounded at the apex.
Type locality: Orizaba, Veracruz.
Distribution: Vicinity of the type locality, in mountain forests.