Randia nelsonii Greenm.

Randia nelsonii Greenman, Proc. Am. Acad. 34: 574. 1899
A shrub, the branches stout, grayish or brownish, densely short-pilose when young,
sparsely lenticellate, often with elongate internodes, bearing few pairs of stout spines 1-1.5
cm. long, the leaves mostly crowded on very short lateral spurs; stipules oval or orbicular,
2 mm. long, mucronate, thick, brownish, glabrous or short-pilose outside, pilose within at the
base; petioles 6 mm. long or shorter, pilose; leaf-blades obovate, cuneate-obovate, spatulate,
or obovate-orbicular, 1.3-3.5 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, cuneate, rounded and short-acuminate,
or attenuate at the base, obtuse to subretuse at the apex, often apiculate, membranaceous,
densely short-pilose on both surfaces, sometimes tomentose beneath when young, the lateral
nerves evident, usually 4 or 5 on each side; flowers perfect, terminal, solitary, sessile; calyx
and hypanthium densely pilose, the hypanthium 3-4 mm. long, the 5 calyx-lobes linear, 2 mm.
long; corolla salverform, sparsely hirtellous outside, the tube 1.5 cm. long, ampliate above,
the throat naked, the 5 lobes ovate or oblong-ovate, 1—1.5 cm. long, obtuse or acutish, glabrous
within; anthers included, 3 mm. long; fruit subglobose, 2.5-3 cm. long, umbonate at the apex,
often substipitate at the base, usually costate, very densely short-pilose, the pericarp very
thick ; seeds numerous, rhombic-oval, 8 mm. long.
Type locality: On the way from Juchitan to Chivela, Oaxaca, altitude 46 to 277 meters. Distribution: Oaxaca and Puebla.