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Spines scattered in pairs along the branches. 



Leaves densely long-pilose; corolla pilose outside. 



21. B. canescens. 



Leaves glabrous or sparsely short-pilose; corolla (so far as known) 



glabrous outside. 



Lateral nerves of the leaves 5 or 6 on each side, conspicuous. 



Leaves pilose beneath along the costa; corolla 18 to 20 mm. 



long • 22. R. rosei. 



Lateral nerves 2 to 4 on each side, inconspicuous. 



Branches whitish; calyx 1 to 1.5 mm. long. Corolla 5 to 6 mm. 



long 23. B. gaumeri. 



Branches brown or grayish; calyx 2 to 3 mm. long. 

 Calyx lobes long-ciliate; flowers clustered. 



24. B. blepharodes. 

 Calyx lobes obscurely ciliolate or naked; flowers solitary. 

 Fruit 6 to 8 mm. in diameter; seeds 2 to 4. 



25. B. obcordata. 

 Fruit 16 to 25 mm. in diameter; seeds numerous. 



26. B. thurberi. 



1. Bandia echinocarpa Moc. & Sesse; DC. Prodr. 4: 385. 1830. 

 Genipa echinocarpa A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 21: 380. 1886. 

 Chihuahua and Sonora to Guerrero and Veracruz. 



Shrub or small tree, sometimes 6 meters high; spines in 4's at the ends of the 

 branches; leaves sessile or subsessile, oval, oval-obovate, or rhombic-ovate, 3.5 

 to 8.5 cm. long, rounded or obtuse at apex, densely pilose beneath, at least along 

 the veins; flowers dioecious, orange-yellow; staminate corolla appressed-pilose, 

 the tube 3 cm. long; fruit subglobose, 4.5 to 9 cm. in diameter, green or yellow, 

 pubescent, the tubercles 1 to 3 cm. long. "Papache," "papache picudo" 

 (Sinaloa) . 



The fruit is edible and is considered (in Sinaloa) a remedy for malaria. 



2. Bandia laevigata Standi., sp. nov. 



Sonora to Durango and Tepic; type from Sierra de Alamos, Sonora (Rose, 

 Standley & Russell 13051; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 635870). 



Unarmed shrub, 2 meters high; leaves sessile or short-petiolate, obovate- 

 oblong or rhombic-ovate, 14 to 23 cm. long, acute or acuminate, attenuate to 

 base, pubescent beneath when young, glabrate in age; fruit subglobose, 6.5 cm. 

 long, glabrous. "Crucecilla de la sierra" (Sinaloa). 



In Sinaloa the fruit is employed as a remedy for bronchitis. 



3. Bandia longiloba Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 4: 101. 1886. 

 Yucatdn; type from Cozumel Island. 



Tree, 6 to 7.5 meters high; leaves petiolate, ovate to oblong-elliptic, 2 to 4.5 

 cm. long, acute or short-acuminate, rounded to acute at base; flowers terminal, 

 usually clustered, subsessile; corolla white, the tube 17 to 22 mm. long. 

 "Xcaax" (Maya). 



4. Bandia armata (Swartz) DC. Prodr. 4: 387. 1830. 

 M ussaenda spinosa Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 70. 1763. 

 Gardenia armata Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 51. 1788. 



Randia spinosa Karst. Fl. Columb. 2: 128. 1869. Not R. spinosa Poir. 1811. 



Southern Baja California and Sinaloa to Chiapas. Lesser Antilles; Central 

 and South America; type from Cartagena, Colombia. 



Shrub or small tree, 1 to 12 meters high, the trunk sometimes 70 cm. in diam- 

 eter; spines in 4's at the ends of the branchlets; leaves slender-petiolate, ovate 

 or obovate, 6 to 20 cm. long, acute or acuminate at base and apex, puberulent 



