Randia echinocarpa Moc. & Sessé ex DC.

Randia echinocarpa Moc. & Sesse; DC. Prodr. 4: 385. 1830
Solena echinocarpa D. Dietr. Syn. PI. 1: 799. 1839.
Genipa echinocarpa A. Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 380. 1886.
A shrub about 3 meters high, the branches gray, the branchlets stout, divergent, leafy at the ends, usually densely pilose when young, bearing at the apex 4 spines, these usually stout, sharp-pointed, 1-3 cm. long, densely pilose or glabrate; stipules often imbricate, broadly ovate, small, obtuse or acuminate, thin, brownish, pilose or glabrate outside, more or less pilose within; leaves mostly sessile or subsessile, the blades variable in outline, usually oval, ovalobovate, or rhombic-ovate,. 3.5-8.5 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, usually obtuse or acuminate at the base, sometimes abruptly long-attenuate, rounded or obtuse at the apex, usually apiculate, rarely acute, membranaceous or chartaceous, densely or sparsely pilose above or puberulent, densely pilose beneath, at least along the veins, with short or long, spreading or appressed hairs, the venation prominent, the margin plane; flowers dioecious, terminal, sessile, solitary or clustered; staminate calyx and hypanthium sericeous, the hypanthium 5-S mm. long, the 5 calyx-lobes linear, 1.5-4 mm. long, the corolla densely appressed-pilose outside, the tube 2.7-3.2 cm. long, the throat naked or sparsely pilose, the lobes oval or broadly ovate, 1.2-2.3 cm. long, obtuse or acute, apiculate, glabrous within; anthers included or subexserted; pistillate calyx and hypanthium densely pilose, the calyx-lobes linear, 1 cm. long; fruit subglobose, 4.5-9 cm. in diameter, green or yellow, densely short-pilose when young, with long, narrow, flat, irregular tubercles, these mostly 1-3 cm. long; seeds numerous, suborbicular, 6-10 mm. broad, brown.
Type locality: Mexico.
Distribution: Dry thickets and hillsides. Chihuahua and Sonora to Guerrero and Veracruz.