Deppea
(named in honour of M. Deppe, who collected and sent home many plants from Mexico). SYN. Choristes. ORD. Rubiaceae. A genus containing about twelve species of shrubs, all natives of Mexico. Flowers yellow, small, arranged in cymes; corolla rotate, or shortly funnel-shaped. Leaves, opposite, petiolate, membranous, ovate or lanceolate. D. erythrorhiza is a shrubby greenhouse plant, with a woody root and reddish inner bark. For culture, see Bouvardia. D. erythrorhiza (red-rooted).* fl. yellow; cymes terminal and axillary, pedunculate, of three or four branches. l. petiolate, elliptic, acuminated at both ends, rather pilose above and on the margins; stipules triangular, deciduous. h. 1ft. to 3ft.