Randia chiapensis Standl.

Randia chiapensis Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 23: 1377
1926.
Branches brownish, the branchlets elongate, divaricate, scaberulous when young, bearing at the apex 2 slender spines 7-12 mm. long, the leaves crowded at the ends of the branch' oi on short lateral spurs; stipules 1.5 -2.5 nun. long, rounded deltoid, cuspidate, strigillose outside, glabrous within; petioles 2 mm. long or shorter, often obsolete, glabrous; leaf blades obovate, rounded-obovate, or rhombic-orbicular, 0.8-2.8 cm. long, 0.6-1.5 cm. wide, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, often apiculate, attenuate to rounded and short-decurreul at the base, coriaceous, glabrous, lustrous above, the venation prominulous, slightly paler beneath, the lateral nerves subimpressed, 3-6 on each side, the margin plane or subrevolute; flowers perfect, terminal, solitary, sessile, 5-parted; calyx and hypanthium 2.5 mm. long, glabrous, the calyxlobes linear to ovate-oblong, obtuse, shorter than the tube; corolla 6-7 mm. long, acuminate in bud, glabrous outside, the tube cylindric, nearly as thick as long, the throat naked, the l< »1 n suborbicular, shortly cuspidate-acuminate, about equaling the tube; anthers subexserted; fruit globose, 1 cm. in diameter, glabrous, slightly roughened, with a thick hard pericarp.
Type locality: Canjob, Chiapas. Distribution: Chiapas.