Pogonopus
(from pogon, a beard, and pous, a foot; in allusion to the shape of the flower). SYNS. Chrysoxylon, Howardia. ORD. Rubiaceae. A genus comprising about five species of stove trees and shrubs, with terete branchlets, natives of tropical America. Flowers pink, showy, pedicellate, disposed in terminal, branched panicles; calyx five-toothed, deciduous; corolla with an elongated tube and a limb of five short, valvate lobes. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ample, membranous; stipules intrapetiolar, small, deciduous. P. caracasensis (the only species in cultivation) requires culture similar to Mussaenda (which see).
P. caracasensis (Caraccas). fl. pink; calyx teeth triangular, acuminate, the lobes foliaceous, ovate; corolla tubular, hairy. Summer. l. ovate or obovate-elliptic, rather long-acuminate, the point very acute, base cuneate, pubescent beneath. Shrub. 1855. (B. M. 5110.) SYN. Howardia caracasensis.