Jacobinia lindaviana Rusby, Descr. So. Am. Pl. 128, 1920.
The type has not been available for study. Following is the orig- inal description:
"A glabrous shrub, the branchlets short, stout and leafy. Petioles 3 mm. long, slender; blades 15-30 mm. long, 10-20 mm. wide, ovate, rounded at the base, obtuse at summit, dark-green, thickish, the veins dark, strongly ascending. Flowers few, in the upper axils, subsessile, 2-bracteolate at the base of the calyx, the bracts minute, subulate. Calyx 10 mm, long, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, acutish. Corolla-tube 15 mm. long, nearly straight, dilating very near the summit, the lobes partially destroyed by insects in my specimen. The short stamens equalling the corolla tube, the longer ones exserted, the lower anther eell with about two-thirds of its length below the base of the upper, which is short mucronate. Style not equalling the longer stamens, stout, sharply declined, above.
"Species dedicated to Dr. Lindau who has kindly confirmed my determination. "Collected at Playa Brava on the northern coast of Colombia, on a dry, rocky hillside on June 6, 1899, by Herbert H. Smith, who reports it as a foot high, and having crimson Flowers. (No. 2821)."