Coursetia caribaea var. chiapensis (Rydb.) Lavin

Benthamantha chiapensis Rydberg, sp. nov
A shrub, 6-10 dm. high; branches densely short-pilose when young, soon glabrous, lightgreen, angled, grooved; stipules setaceous, 5-8 mm. long; leaves 4-6 cm. long; leaflets 11-17, oval, rounded at each end, cuspidate. 6-15 mm. long, silky-pilose on both sides, densely so beneath; stipels setaceous, 1 mm. long; racemes 5-8 cm. long, the peduncle densely pilose and glandular, 5-10-flowered; calyx pilose, the tube 2 mm. long, the lobes subulate, attenuate, 4 mm. long; corolla about 1 cm. long, ochroleucous, the banner with brown-purple veins.
Type collected near Jalisco, Chiapas, December 12, 1907, C. B. Doyle 50 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 574700).
* The same number in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden is dated May 12 to 15, 1911.