Randia pringlei A. Gray

Randia pringlei A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 21: 379. 1886
Basanacantha reticulata S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 18: 98. 1883. Not Randia reticulata Benth. 1849.
A shrub or small tree, unarmed, the branches gray or brown, the branchlets stout, ascending, densely short-pilose when young, densely leafy at the ends or with elongate internodes; stipules often imbricate, lanceolate or ovate, 4-6 mm. long, acuminate or attenuate, thick, rigid, puberulent outside, glabrous and glandular within; petioles stout, 3-17 mm. long, densely short-pilose; leaf-blades mostly obovate or oval, sometimes oblong, obovate-oval, or ovalovate, 3-8 cm. long, 1.3-3.5 cm. wide, cuneate-attenuate to truncate and short-decurrent at the base, acute or rounded at the apex, coriaceous, very densely velvety-pilose above, at least when young, with short hairs, densely tomentose or velvety-pilose beneath with grayish hairs, the venation impressed above, prominently reticulate beneath; flowers dioecious, mostly terminal, clustered, sessile or short-pedicellate; hypanthium 2-3 mm. long, densely pilose, the 5 calyx-lobes lance-subulate, 2-3 mm. long, sparsely pilose; corolla white, sparsely or densely pilose outside, the tube stout, 10-12 mm. long, the 5 lobes ovate, acuminate, about as long as the tube, the throat naked; anthers subexserted; fruit globose, 2 cm. in diameter, densely short-pilose, with numerous seeds.
Type locality: Canyons of the mountains near Jimulco, Coahuila. Distribution: Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Durango.