Randia monantha Benth.

Randia albonervia Brand. Zoe 5: 257. 1908 A shrub, the branches grayish, the branchlets stout, divaricate or ascending, leafy at the ends, appressed-pilose when young, bearing near the apex 2 or 4 stout spines 5-7 mm. long; stipules imbricate, oval or broadly ovate, 4-6 mm. long, obtuse or acute, thin, brownish, usually glabrous outside and minutely tuberculate, densely white-pilose within; petioles slender, 3-13 mm. long, appressed-pilose; leaf-blades mostly obovate, sometimes ovate, oval-obovate, or oblong-obovate, 2-5.5 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, usually cuneate at the base, sometimes obtuse and short-decurrent, acute or abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, membranaceous, darkgreen above, densely short-pilose with subappressed or spreading hairs, densely appressedpilose beneath with short grayish hairs, the lateral nerves conspicuous, numerous, nearly straight, ascending at an acute angle; flowers dioecious (?), terminal, solitary; calyx-lobes unequal, narrowly lanceolate, 1 cm. long, longer than the hypanthium; corolla densely whitepilose outside, the tube 3-4 cm. long, the 5 lobes lanceolate, 2 cm. long, attenuate; anthers subsessile in the corolla-throat, 6 mm. long.
Type locality: Corral de las Piedras, near Zacnapam, Veracruz. Distribution: Veracruz.

Randia subcordata Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 201
1919. Basanacantha subcordata Standley, Contr. I'. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 133. 1916.
A shrub or small tree, the branches grayish, the branchlets slender, divaricate, leafy at
the apex, glabrate, bearing near the apes 4 or 2 stout spines 5-7 mm. long; stipules imbricate,
• r oblong, 6-8 mm. long, acute or obtuse, mucronulate, thin, brownish, glabrous outside,
densely white-sericeous within; petioles slender, 1-2.5 cm. long, canescent-pilose with short, mostly appressed hairs; leaf-blades oval, orbicular-oval, oval-oblong, or broadly ovate, 4-10 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. wide, subcordate or rounded at the base, often short-decurrent, acute or abruptly acute at the apex, membranaceous, concolorous, minutely appressed-pilose on the upper surface with setose hairs, the venation plane, copiously appressed-pilose beneath, the lateral nerves prominulous, 6-8 on each side, subarcuately ascending, the margin plane; flowers white, fragrant, dioecious; staminate flowers 2 or more at the end of each branchlet, sessile, the calyx and hypanthium strigose-sericeous, the hypanthium tubular-campanulate, 7 mm. long, the calyx-lobes linear-subulate, 5 mm. long, the corolla salverform, densely hirtellous outside, the tube 5—6 cm. long, slender, the lobes ovate or. lanceolate, attenuate, 2.5-4 cm. long, 1.2-1.5 cm. wide, glabrous within; pistillate flowers solitary, terminal, the hypanthium 8 mm. long, sericeous, the calyx-limb 5-6 mm. long, its lobes oblanceolate-linear, 1.5-1.8 cm. long, subulate-attenuate, appressed-pilose, the corolla-tube about 4.5 cm. long, hirtellous.
Type locality: Near Nicoya, Costa Rica.
Distribution: In thickets and hedges, Honduras to Costa Rica.

Randia monantha Benth. PI. Hartw. 84. 1841
Basanacantha monantha Benth. & Hook.; Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 39. 1881.
A stout, densely branched shrub 2-3 meters high, the thick branchlets usually bearing at the apex 4 stout ascending spines 1-2 cm. long; stipules glumaceous, broad, acuminate, brown, glabrate outside, sericeous within; leaves clustered at the ends of the branchlets, membranaceous, the slender petioles 1.5 cm. long or less, hispidulous; leaf-blades ovate, obovate, or elliptic, 6—17 cm. long, 2.5—9.5 cm. wide, short-acuminate or obtuse and mucronate at the apex, acute at the base or abruptly contracted and decurrent, short-hispidulous above, sometimes pilose with long stiff hairs, beneath short-pilose or hispidulous; flowers terminal, dioecious, sessile, solitary or clustered; hypanthium short-pilose; calyx lobes subequal, linearcuneiform or linear, 6 mm. long, acute; corolla villous outside, the tube 4—5 cm. long, slender, slightly dilated above, the lobes ovate-oblong to linear-lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 cm. long, acuminate or long-attenuate; fruit globose, 2-celled, 3.5-4 cm. long, with a very thick, rough, hard, brownish shell, containing very numerous seeds.
Type locality: P.io de los Esclavos, Guatemala.
Distribution: Veracruz; Guatemala; reported, probably in error, from Costa Rica and Panama.