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21. Randia canescens Greenm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 34: 573. 1899. 

 Morelos; type from Cuernavaca. 



Shrub or small tree, 3 to 5 meters high; leaves sessile or short-petiolate, 7 to 

 15 mm. long, rounded at apex, rounded to acute at base; flowers perfect, sessile; 

 corolla short-pilose, the tube 6 to 7 mm. long. 



22. Bandia rosei Standi., sp. nov. 



Sinaloa and Tepic; type from Rosario, Sinaloa (Rose 1551; U. S. Nat. Herb, 

 no. 300395). 



Branches armed with numerous pairs of stout divergent spines 1 to 2 cm. 

 long; leaves mostly crowded on short lateral spurs, slender-petiolate, the blades 

 suborbicular to rhombic-ovate, 1 to 2.5 cm. long, rounded or obtuse at base, 

 rounded or very obtuse at apex, short-pilose beneath along the veins, elsewhere 

 glabrous; flowers perfect, terminal, solitary, sessile; hypanthium 2 mm. long, 

 pilose, the calyx lobes linear, 3 to 6 mm. long, ciliate; corolla salverform, glabrous 

 outside, the tube 10 to 12 mm. long, the throat naked, the 5 lobes ovate-oval, 

 8 mm. long, obtuse or acutish; fruit subglobose, rather sparsely pilose. 



23. Bandia gaumeri Greenm. & Thompson, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1: 410. 1915. 

 Yucatan; type from Izamal. 



Shrub; leaves short-petiolate, cuneate-orbicular or obovate, 5 to 15 mm. long, 

 broadly rounded at apex, glabrous or nearly so; flowers perfect; corolla glabrous. 



24. Bandia blepharodes Standi., sp. nov. 



Guerrero and Oaxaca; type from Mexcala, Guerrero, altitude 500 meters 

 {Langlasse 1033; U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 386343). 



Shrub about 3 meters high, the branches bearing numerous pairs of stout 

 divaricate spines 1 to 2 cm. long; leaves crowded on short lateral spurs, subsessile 

 or short-petiolate, the blades cuneate-orbicular or rounded-obovate, 7 to 17 mm. 

 long and broad, cuneate at base, broadly rounded at apex or subretuse, glabrous; 

 flowers perfect, terminal, clustered, sessile, 5-parted; calyx and hypanthium more 

 or less scaberulous, the calyx lobes lance-linear, much longer than the tube, long- 

 ciliate; corolla white, glabrous outside, the tube slender, 1 cm. long, the throat 

 naked, the lobes ovate or oblong-ovate, 4 to 5 mm. long; fruit globose, about 2 cm. 

 in diameter, sparsely puberulent, the pericarp hard and thick; seeds numerous. 



25. Bandia obcordata S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 24: 53. 1889. 

 Sonora to Colima; type from Guaymas, Sonora. 



Shrub, 2 to 3 meters high; leaves flabellate or obcordate, 4 to 18 mm. long, 

 truncate or retuse at apex, decurrent to a short petiole, glabrous; fruit black. 

 "Papachillo" (Sinaloa). 



26. Bandia thurberi S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 24: 53. 1889. 

 Sonora and Sinaloa; type collected between Rayon and Ures, Sonora. 



Shrub 1.5 to 2.5 meters high; leaves petiolate, orbicular to cuneate-obovate, 

 0.6 to 4.5 cm. long, obtuse to subretuse at apex, cuneate to abruptly long-attenuate 

 at base, glabrous or nearly so; flowers perfect, sessile; fruit greenisR yellow, gla- 

 brous. "Papache" (Sonora, Sinaloa). 



The fruit is edible. Birds are fond of it, and one seldom sees a fruit from 

 which the birds have not extracted the pulpy interior, which has the appearance 

 of blackberry jam. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 

 Randia capitata DC. Prodr. 4: 387. 1830. Type from "Anasteca." 



25. OTOCALYX T. S. Brandeg. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 68. 1914. 

 A single species is known. 



