Cascabela gaumeri (Hemsl.) H. Lippold

Thevetia gaumeri Hemsl. in Hook. Ic
pi 1517. 1886.
Thevetia spathulata Millsp. Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 1: 383. 1898. Thevetia Steerei Woodson, Am. Jour. Bot. 22: 685. 1935.
Shrub or small tree, occasionally attaining a height of 10 m., wholly glabrous; leaves firmly membranaceous, elliptic-oblanceolate, 7-18 cm. long, 1.5-3.5 cm. broad, acute to very shortly and abruptly acuminate, acutely cuneate to obtusish at the base, the secondary veins arcuate. rather distant, not obvious on the lower surface when dry, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; inflorescence terminal or lateral, bearing several handsome orange or pinkish-yellow flowers; calyxlobes ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 8-10 mm. long; corolla salverform, the tube 10-13 mm. long, about 2 mm. in diameter at the base, the lobes broadly obovate-dolabriform, 25-40 mm. long, spreading; drupes bright-red, 2-3.2 cm. broad.
Type locauty: Cozumel Island, Yucatan. Distribution: Yucatan and British Hondiu-as. IiyLusTRATioN : Hook. Ic. pi. 1517.