Randia ciliolata C. Wright

Randia ciliolata C. Wright; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci. Habana 6:
100. 1869.
Genipa ciliolata Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 23: 288. 1895.
A shrub 2 meters high, the branches grayish, the branchlets stout or slender, divergent, sparsely strigillose when young, bearing at the apex 2 stout or slender spines 0.6-1.2 cm. long, the leaves clustered on very short lateral spurs; stipules minute, pilose within at the base; petioles 4 mm. long or shorter, marginate; leaf-blades orbicular, oval, rounded-obovate, or elliptic-oblong, 1.5-3.2 cm. long, 0.8-3.2 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the base and abruptly decurrent, very obtuse or rounded at the apex, subcoriaceous, ciliolate when young, glabrous, lustrous above, the venation prominulous, the lateral nerves subimpressed beneath, inconspicuous, 3-5 on each side, the margin subrevolute; flowers perfect, terminal, solitary, sessile; calyx and hypanthium 2.5 mm. long, glabrous, the 5 calyx-lobes minute, subulate; corolla 11-12 mm. long, glabrous outside, the tube cylindric, the throat naked, the 5 lobes ovate, acuminate, shorter than the tube ; anthers subexserted ; fruit globose, 2 cm. in diameter, umbonate, obscurely tuberculate ; seeds numerous.
Type locality: Plains near Santa Catalina de Guantanamo, Cuba. Distribution: Oriente, Cuba.