Randia cookii Standl.

Randia cookii Standley, sp. nov Branches grayish, the branchlets stout, divaricate, appressed-pilose when young, bearing at the apex 2 stout spines 6-9 mm. long, the leaves mostly clustered on short lateral spurs; stipules 1.5-3 mm. long, rounded-deltoid, acuminate, strigose outside, glabrous within; petioles 1-1.5 mm. long, glabrous; leaf-blades obovate, oval-oblong, oval-ovate, or obovate-oblong, 1-3.3 cm. long, 0.6-1.2 cm. wide, acutish to rounded at the apex, obtuse to acuminate at the base, often apiculate, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, lustrous, glabrous above, the venation prominulous, glabrous beneath or sparsely scaberulous along the costa, the lateral nerves 4 or ; on each side, prominulous or plane, the margin plane or subrevolute; flowers perfect, terminal, solitary, sessile, 5-parted; calyx and hypanthium 2-2.5 mm. long, the calyx strigillose outside, pilose within, the calyx-lobes linear, triangular, or oblanceolate, usually ciliate, equaling or shorter than the calyx tube; corolla 6 mm. long, the tube cylindric, the throat naked, the lobes rounded, about half as long as the tube; anthers subexserted; fruit globose, 8-12 mm. in diameter, smooth, glabrous, lustrous, the pericarp thirl ; seeds few.
Ramuli adpre so pilosi api< e spinis 2 crassis terminati ; folia parva, lamina obovata vel obovato-
oblonga apice acutiuscula vel rotundata saepe apiculata, supra glabra, subtus glabra vel ad costam
erula; (lores hermaphroditi terminates solitarii sessiles 5-tneri; calyx extus strigillosus
iuttis pilosus, lobis linearibus vel triangularibus vel oblanceolatis; corolla parva fauce non barbata,
lobis rotundatis tubo duplo brevioribus; fructus parvus globosus glaber paucispermus.
Type collected at Santa Rosa, Guatemala, June, 1904, O. /•. Cook 24'J (V . S. Nat. Herb. 860099).