Randia martinicensis (Urb.) Standl.

Randia martinicensis (Urban) Standley
Basanacantha martinicensis Urban, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 8: 29. 1921.
A shrub 3 meters high, the branchlets terete, glabrous, bearing near the apex 4 spines 1.5 cm. long; stipules triangular, 5-8 mm. long, subcoriaceous, glabrous outside, densely whitishpilose within; leaves crowded at the apices of the branchlets, the slender petioles 5-20 mm. long, shortly and densely spreading-pilose; leaf-blades oval or obovate, 6-8 cm. long, 3.5-4.5 cm. wide, gradually short-acuminate, with acute short-mucronate tip, gradually narrowed to the base, membranaceous, short-pilose on the upper surface, beneath short-pilose between the nerves and more densely pubescent upon them, the lateral nerves 7 or 8 on each side, branched but not anastomosing; flowers solitary at the apex of the branchlet, sessile, 5-parted; calyx produced above the hypanthium into a tube 5 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate, abruptly narrowed near the base, shortly acuminate, 10-12 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, pilose especially on the nerves and margin; corolla-tube 4.5 cm. long, 1 mm. thick near the base, ampliate above, below the apex 4 mm. broad, with short spreading pubescence, the lobes ovate-oblong, acutely long-acuminate, 3 cm. long, 8-10 mm. wide near the base, glabrous within, short-pilose outside toward the base; hypanthium elliptic-oblong, shortly and densely tomentose.
Type locality: Montagne du Yauclin, Martinique. Distribution: Martinique.