Randia watsoni

Randia watsoni B. L. Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 29: 317
1894.
Ranrfin tomentose S Wal Proc. Am. Acad. 25: 152. 1890. Not R. lomenlosa Wight & Am. 1834. Randia megacarpa Brand. Zoe 5: 257. 1908. A shrub or small tree 3 -5 meters high, the branches gray or brownish, lenticellate, the branchlets stout, divaricate, Leafy at the ends, densely pilose when young, bearing at the apex
4 stout spines 6-15 mm. long; stipules imbricate, oval or ovate, 6-10 mm. long, acute or obtuse, thin, brownish, usually glabrous outside, sometimes pilose, densely white pilose within; petioles stout, 2-1 1 mm. long, pilose; leaf blades oval, rounded-oval, obovate-oval, or obovate, 2.5-8.5 cm. long, 1.5-7.5 cm. wide, acute to truncate at the base, often short-decurrent, usually rounded or obtuse at the apex, often short-apiculate, rarely acutish, densely short-pilose above, paler and densely whitish -toinentose beneath, the lateral nerves prominulous, often numerous, ascending or divergent; flowers perfect, white, few at the ends of the branchlets, sessile; hypanthium densely sericeous, 5-6 mm. long, the 5 calyx-lobes linear or Linear-spatulate, 2.5-3.5 mm. long, sparsely or densely pilose; corolla sparsely or densely pilose with appressed 01 spreading hairs, the tube stout, 1.8-2 cm. long, the throat glabrous, the 5 lobes oval or oblong, 1.3-1.8 cm. long, obtuse, glabrous within; anthers sessile in the throat, included; fruit globose or oval, 3-4.5 cm. broad, sometimes 6 cm. long, umbonate at the apex, sometimes short-stipitate at the base, smooth or obtusely short-tuberculate, densely short-pilose when young, often glabra te in age; seeds oval or orbicular, 7-10 mm. long, brown.
Type locality: Sierra de la Silla, near Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
Distribution: In dry thickets, Nuevo Leon to southern Lower California, Morelos, and Michoacan ; Chiapas (?).