Randia aculeata var. jamaicensis (Spreng.) C. D. Adams

Randia jamaicensis (Spreng.) Krqg & Urban; Urban, Symb
Ant. 1: 426. 1899.
Gardenia jamaicensis Spreng. Syst . 1: 761. 1825.
Randia jamaicensis var. Camphellii Kru« & Urban; Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 427. 1899.
A shrub the branches brownish or grayish, the branchlets divaricate, stout, glabrous or densely short-pilose when young, bearing several pairs of stout spine? 6-10 mm. long, the leaves mostly crowded on short lateral spurs; stipules minute, acuminate; petioles 2 mm. long or shorter; leaf-blades suborbicular, oval, or obovate, 0.7-2.5 cm. long, 0.7-1.4 cm. wide, subcordate to obtuse at the base, often short-decurrent, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, often apiculate, coriaceous, densely short-pilose or scaberulous above, densely pilosulous beneath, especially when young, the lateral nerves 2-5 on each side, inconspicuous; flowers perfect, 4-5-parted, terminal, solitary, sessile; calyx and hypanthium 2.5 mm. long, whitish-strigose or scaberulous, the calyx-lobes oblong or triangular, shorter than the hypanthium; corolla 7-10 mm. long, sparsely pilose outside, the tube cylindric, the throat densely white-barbate, the lobes ovate, acute or short-acuminate, shorter than the tube; anthers 2-2.5 mm. long; fruit globose, 7 mm. in diameter, densely short-pilose, the pericarp thin; seeds about 8.
Type locality: Jamaica.
Distribution: Jamaica.