Randia grandifolia (Donn. Sm.) Standl.

Randia grandifolia (Dorm. Smith) Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad
18: 166. 1928.
Basanacantha grandifolia Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 55: 436. 1913.
A shrub or small tree, unarmed, glabrous throughout or nearly so; stipules ovate-deltoid,
4 mm. long, brown, cuspidate, glabrous outside, pilose within; leaves large, mostly crowded at
the tips of the branches, the stout petioles 0.5-3.5 cm. long, glabrous; leaf-blades elliptic,
lance-oblong, or elliptic-ovate, 12-40 cm. long, 6-15 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, acute or
short-acuminate at the base, or sometimes attenuate to the base, subcoriaceous at maturity,
bright-green when dried, lustrous, the venation prominent on both surfaces, the lateral nerves
about 8 on each side, arcuate-divaricate, the margin plane; flowers dioecious, the staminate
flowers few, aggregate, subsessile; calyx 3 mm. long, sparsely short-pilose, the lobes subulate
or lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long; corolla glabrous outside, greenish-yellow-, the stout tube 12 mm.
long, the throat naked, the lobes ovate, 7 mm. long, acuminate; anthers 5 mm. long; fruit
globose, 2.5 cm. in diameter, obscurely costate.
Type locality: Forests near Santo Domingo, Golfo Dulce, Comarca de Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
Distribution: Wet forests of the Pacific slope of Costa Rica.