Randia pittieri (Standl.) Standl.

Randia pittieri Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 201
1919.
Basanacantha Pittieri Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 131. 1916.
Branches stout, brownish, lenticellate, the branchlets subdivaricate, glabrous, leafy at the apex and bearing 4 stout spines 3-5 mm. long; stipules crowded, imbricate, broadly ovate, acutish, thin, brownish, glabrous and minutely tuberculate outside, white-sericeous within; petioles stout, 9-14 mm. long, fulvous-pilose with short stiff hairs; leaf-blades oval or obovateoval, 12-16 cm. long, 7-10 cm. wide, rounded or subcordate at the base, abruptly acute, with a short acute acumen, membranaceous, dark-green above and shortly setose-pilose, paler beneath and copiously setose-pilose, the venation impressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral nerves 8 or 9 on each side, arcuately ascending, the margin plane; flowers dioecious, solitary or fasciculate, terminal; staminate flowers on stout pedicels 4-5 mm. long; hypanthium campanulate, 4 mm. long, sparsely Long-ciliate, the calyx-lobes subulate, about as long as the hypanthium, long-ciliate; corolla salverform, glabrous outside, the tube 6 cm. long, slightly ampliate above, glabrous in the throat, the lobes Lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-3 cm. long, 6-10 mm. wide, attenuate; anthers 1 cm, long; style 4.5 cm. Long, glabrous.
Type locality: Zent Junction, neaj Matina, Costa Rica. Distribution: Known only from the type Locality.