Randia truncata Greenm. & C. H. Thomps.

Randia truncata Greenm. & Thomps. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1:
411. 1915.
Randia lelramera Loesener, Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brand. 65: 109. 1923.
A shrub 2-4 meters high, the branches gray, the branchlets stout, often with elongate internodes, divergent or ascending, sparsely scaberulous when young, usually bearing at the apex 2 slender spines 5-10 mm. long, the leaves often clustered on very short lateral spurs; stipules imbricate, ovate or rounded, 1-2 mm. long, obtuse, thick, brownish, usually glabrous outside, pilose within, at least at the base; petioles 3 mm. long or shorter, marginate, glabrous; leaf-blades suborbicular, orbicuhir-obovate, or spatulate-obovate, 0.5-3 cm. long, 0.3-1.7 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base and abruptly decurrent, obtuse or rounded at the apex, membranaceous or chartaceous, glabrous, the lateral nerves inconspicuous; flowers perfect, terminal, solitary or clustered, sessile; calyx and hypanthium glabrous, 1.5-2 mm. long, the calyx cupular, truncate; corolla salverform, glabrous outside, the tube 1-1.5 cm. long, slender, the throat naked or sparsely short-pilose, the 4 lobes oval or orbicular, 3.5-5 mm. long, rounded at the apex, sometimes apiculate; anthers subexserted. -
Type locality: Vicinity of Izarnal, Yucatan. DISTRIBUTION: Yucatan, in dry forest or thickets.