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Russell (no. 13051). Specimens from Acaponeta, Tepic, collected in 1897 by 
J. N. Rose (nos. 1488 and 3166) apparently belong here also. 
Randia laevigata appears to be related to R. formosa (Jacq.) Ik. Schum., 
but the latter is well distinguished by its small leaves, sericeous-strigose ovary, 
and small fruit. 
Randia pleiomeris Standl., sp. nov. 
Branches slender, brownish, strigose when young, with mostly elongate inter- 
nodes, bearing few pairs of stout ascending spines 1 to 1.5 em. long, the leaves 
crowded on very short lateral spurs; stipules ovate-deltoid, about 2 mm. long, 
strigose or glabrous outside, pilose within at the base; petioles slender, 4 to 8 
mim. long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent; leaf blades cuneate-orbicular or 
broadly obovate, 0.8 to 1.8 cm. long, 0.7 to 1.8 cm. wide, cuneate or abruptly 
decurrent at the base, rounded or truncate at the apex, membranaceous, gla- 
brous above, sparsely appressed-pilose beneath along the costa, the lateral veins 
obscure ; flowers terminal, solitary, sessile; calyx tube appressed-pilose, 2.5 mm. 
long, the limb glabrous, 2 mm. long, the lobes usually 7, linear, about 4 mm. 
long, sparsely ciliate; corolla salverform, glabrous outside, the tube slender, 
2.5 cm. long, the 5 lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, about 1 cm. long, acuminate, 
glabrous within, the throat naked; anthers subexserted. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 888490, collected at Santa Rosa, 
Guatemala, altitude 900 meters, May, 1892, by Heyde and Lux (J. D. Smith, 
no. 3166, in part). 
The type collection was distributed as “ Randia Xalapensis, Mart. et Gal.,” 
with the note, “ Flores steriles pollicares et ultra, fertiles vix 4-lineares.” It 
is evident, however, that two distinct plants, not closely related, have been 
confused. Randia pleiomeris is the plant with large flowers. It appears to 
be related to R. longiloba Hemsl., of Yucatan, but in the latter the tube of the 
corolla’ is only as long as the lobes and the leaves are glabrous beneath. 
Randia guatemalensis Standl., sp. nov. 
Branches reddish brown, the branchlets stout, subdivaricate, densely puber- 
ulent when young, bearing at the apex 2 stout spines 4 to 8 mm. long, the 
leaves fasciculate in the axils; stipules ovate-deltoid, 1 to 1.5 mm. long, mu- 
cronate, strigillose outside; petioles 1 to 11 mm. long, scaberulous or glabrate; 
leaf blades mostly oblong-elliptic, sometimes elliptic, broadly obovate, broadly 
ovate, or suborbicular, 0.6 to 5.5 cm. long, 0.6 to 2.8 cm. wide, rounded to 
attenuate at the base, usually obtuse or acutish at the apex, often mucronulate, 
subcoriaceous, lustrous above, the costa prominent, puberulent along the costa, 
paler beneath, minutely pilose along the costa, the lateral veins obscure, 5 to 8 
on each side, the margin plane; flowers perfect, 5-parted, axillary, solitary, 
sessile; calyx 1.5 mm. long, scaberulous, the lobes minute, triangular-subulate, 
less than half as long as the limb; corolla 4 to 5 mm. long, glabrous outside, 
acuminate in bud, the tube cylindric, the throat densely white-barbate, the 
lobes broadly ovate, apiculate, shorter than the tube; anthers subexserted. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 472930, collected near Secanquim, 
Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, altitude 550 meters, May, 1905, by H. Pittier 
(no. 271). 
Related to Randia erythrocarpa Krug & Urban, of Haiti, and R. mitis L. 
(R. aculeata L.), a widely distributed species of tropical America. The former 
differs in its large corolla, and the latter in its long corolla lobes. 
Randia malacocarpa Standl., sp. nov. 
Shrub, about 1 meter high, the branches dark reddish brown or grayish, 
the branchlets divaricate, stout, short-pilose when young, bearing at the apex 
?, stout spines 0.6 to 1.5 cm. long, the leaves mostly crowded on very short 
