Lily Thorn

Catesbaea spinosa L. Sp. PI. 109. 1753
< .i!i baea longi flora Sw. Prodr. 30. 1788.
( alesbaea latifolia I.iudl. Rot. Reg. 10: pi. S5S. 1825.
Catesbaea macranlha A. Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba 11: 12. 1850.
A shrul i or tree 2-5 meters high, the branches greenish or brownish, minutely hirtellous
or glabrate, the internodes very short, the spines stout, 1-2.6 cm. long; stipules small, annular,
subtruncate, apiculate; leaves opposite or verticillate, the petioles 2.5 mm. long or shorter,
the blades ovate to rhombic oi bicular, 0.8-2 cm. long, 0.5-1.8 cm. wide, rounded to acuminate
at the base, acutish to rounded at the apex, apiculate, chartaceous to coriaceous, glabrous, deep-green and Lustrous above, the costa impressed, the lateral nerves often prominulous slightly paler beneath, the costa prominent, the lateral nerves prominulous or obscure the margin often revolute; flowers solitary or geminate, pendent, 1 parted, the pedicels 3 6 mm long ; calyx and hypanthium glabrous, the hypanthium oval or oblong, i l nun. long, the calj lobes subulate, connate at the base, equaling <>r slightly shorter than the tube; corolla yellow 10 17 cm. long, the tube stout, about 3 mm. thick at the base, ampliate upward, glabrous, the lobes ovate oi ovate deltoid, obtuse, 2 cm. long; stamens adnate to the base of the corolla, the anthers 1.8 2.8 cm. long, yellow, subexserted, several times shorter than the filaments' style curved at the apex, exceeding the anthers; ovules very numerous; fruit globose, 2 5 cm. in diameter, yellow or white, the pericarp thick and hard.
Typi-: locality: Providence Island, Bahamas. Distribution: Bahamas and Cuba.