1376 co:NrTBiBUTiONS from the national HERBAEIITM 



Unarmed shrub; leaves sessile, oval or rounded-ovate, 8 to 11 cm. long, rounded 

 at apex, subcordate at base, densely ciliate, in age glabrate but when young 

 copiously pilose beneath; flowers dioecious, the staminate in few-flowered 

 axillary short-pedunculate cymes; calyx and hypanthium 4 mm. long, glabrous, 

 the limb irregularly undulate; corolla tube glabrous, 8 mm. long, the lobes oval, 



5 to 6 mm. long, ciliate; fruit subglobose, glabrous, 13 mm. in diameter or larger. 



12. Randia pringlei A. Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad. 21: 379. 1886. 

 Basanacantha reticulata S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 18: 98. 1883. Not 



Randia reticulata Benth. 1849. 



Coahuila and Durango; type from mountains near Jimuico, Coahuila. 



Shrub or small tree; leaves mostly obovate or oval, 3 to 8 cm. long, acute to 

 rounded at apex, cuneate-attenuate to truncate and decurrent at base, densely 

 tomentose or pubescent beneath; flowers dioecious, terminal, clustered; corolla 

 white, the tube 10 to 12 mm. long; fruit globose, 2 cm. in diameter, densely 

 pubescent. "Chapote" (Coahuila). 



13. Bandia rhagocarpa Standi., sp. nov. 



Type from Victoria, Tamaulipas {Palmer 38; U. S. Nat. Herl). no. 572266). 



Shrub about 4.5 meters high, the branches armed with numerous pairs of stout 

 divaricate spines; leaves petiolate, the blades cuneate-orbicular or rounded- 

 obovate, 1.5 to 4 cm. long, cuneate or acuminate at base, rounded or truncate 

 at apex, ciholate, glabrous beneath; flowers terminal, sessile; fruit globose, 

 about 12 mm. in diameter, smooth, black, very lustrous, the pericarp thin, 

 succulent, soft when dry; seeds about 8, 5 to 7 mm. long. 



14. Randia mitis L. Sp. PI. 1192. 1753. 

 Randia aculeata L. Sp. PI. 1192. 1753. 

 Randia latifolia Lam. Encj'cl. 3: 24. 1789. 



Mussaenda rotundifolia Sess(§ & Moc. Fl. Mex. ed. 2. 59. 1894. 



Veracruz and Oaxaca; Sinaloa (?); Tamaulipas (?). West Indies; Panama 

 and Colombia; type from Jamaica. 



Shrub, 1 to 3 meters high; leaves sessile or short-pctiolate, very variable in 

 shape, 1 to 10 cm. long, acute to rounded at apex, glabrous Vjeneath or sparsely 

 pilose along the costa; flowers perfect, usually clustered, sessile; corolla white, 



6 to 8 mm. long, glabrous; fruit globose, 6 to 13 mm. in diameter. "Crucilla" 

 (Tamaulipas); "crucecilla de la costa" (Sinaloa); "cruceto" (Tamaulipas, 

 Escontria; Colombia); "tintillo," "escambr6n," "palo de cotorra," "cambr6n" 

 (Porto Rico); "maiz tostado" (Colombia); "agalla de costa," "yamaguey," 

 "yamaguey de costa," "pitajoni bravo," "pitajoni espinoso" (Cuba); "espino 

 cruz," "crucete" (Veracruz); "papachilla" (Sinaloa). 



The green fruit is astringent and in the West Indies has been employed as a 

 remedy for dysentery. The ripe fruit is sometimes eaten, and it is reported to 

 yield a blue dye. 



15. Randia truncata Greenm. & Thompson, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1 : 411. 1915. 

 Randia tetramera Loesener, Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. 56: 109. 1923. 

 Yucatan; type from Izamal. 



Shrub, 2 to 4 meters high, the spines in pairs at the ends of the branches; 

 leaves nearly sessile, suborbicular or obovate, 1 to 3 cm. long, obtuse or rounded 

 at apex, glabrous; flowers perfect; corolla glabrous, the tube 1 to 1.5 cm. long. 

 "Mehenkax," "kax" (Maya). 



This is perhaps the plant reported from Yucatdn as R. aculeata L., which is 

 said to bear the Maya name "xpech citam." 



16. Randia malacocarpa Standi., sp. nov. 



Sinaloa and Tepic; type from Acaponeta, Tepic {Rose 3298; U. S. Nat. Herb, 

 no. 302274). 



