Randia longiloba Hemsl.

Randia longiloba Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 4: 101. 1887
A shrub or small tree, 2-3.5 meters high, the branches gray, the branchlets stout, divergent, leafy at the ends, glabrate, bearing at the apex 2 or 4 stout spines 4-10 mm. long, or sometimes unarmed; stipules 2 mm. long, ovate or rounded, obtuse or acutish, mucronate, usually glabrous outside, sericeous-pilose within; petioles 3-7 mm. long, glabrous; leaf-blades ovate, elliptic-oval, or oblong-elliptic, 2-4.5 cm. long and 1-2.2 cm. wide, or sometimes 7 cm. long, rounded to acute at the base and abruptly acuminate or attenuate, acute at the apex or obtusely short-acuminate, membranaceous or chartaceous, glabrous, lustrous above, the lateral nerves inconspicuous, 7-10 on each side, subarcuate, ascending; flowers perfect (?), terminal, usually clustered, subsessile; calyx and hypanthium glabrous, the hypanthium 3-4 mm. long, the 5 calyx-lobes triangular, acute, 1-2 mm. long; corolla salverform, white, glabrous outside, the tube 1.7-2.2 cm. long, the throat naked, the 5 lobes linear-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, acuminate or attenuate, glabrous within; anthers included; ovules numerous.
Type locality: Cozume! Island, Yucatan. Distribution: Dry thickets and forests, Yucatan.