Randia aculeata var. aculeata

Randia guatemalensis Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20:
202. 1919.
Branches reddish-brown, the branchlets stout, subdivaricate, densely puberulent when young, bearing at the apex 2 stout spines 4-8 mm. long, the leaves fasciculate in the axils; stipules ovate-deltoid, 1-1.5 mm. long, mucronate, strigillose outside; petioles 1-11 mm. long, scaberulous or glabrate; leaf-blades mostly oblong-elliptic, sometimes elliptic, broadly obovate, broadly ovate, or suborbicular, 0.6-5.5 cm. long, 0.6-2.8 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 nerves obscure, 5-8 on each side, the margin plane; flowers perfect, 5parted, axillary, solitary, sessile; calyx and hypanthium 1.5 mm. long, scaberulous, the calyxlobes minute, triangular-subulate, less than half as long as the limb; corolla 4-5 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 locality: Near Secanquim, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, altitude 550 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Randia karstenii Polak. Linnaea 41: 568. 1877 A densely branched shrub 1-2 meters high, the branches brownish or grayish, the branchlets stout, subdivaricate, minutely appressed-pilose when young, bearing at the apex 2 stout suberect spines 1—1.4 cm. long, the leaves crowded on very short lateral spurs; stipules 1.5 mm. long, rounded-ovate, mucronate, glabrous; petioles 6 mm. long or shorter, marginate, glabrous; leaf-blades obovate-oblong, obovate, oblong-elliptic, or rounded-obovate, 1.5-4 cm. long, 0.8-2.2 cm. wide, acuminate or attenuate at the base, obtuse or rounded at the apex, often apiculate, membranaceous or chartaceous, deep-green and lustrous above, glabrous, the venation prominulous, slightly paler beneath, minutely pilose along the costa or glabrous, the lateral nerves subimpressed, 5-8 on each side, the margin plane; flowers perfect, terminal, solitary, sessile, 5-parted; calyx and hypanthium 2-3 mm. long, glabrous, the calyx-lobes linear or oblanceolate, equaling or shorter than the tube, ciliolate; corolla 6 mm. long, glabrous outside, acute in bud, the tube cylindric, the throat naked, the lobes broadly ovate, abruptly short-acuminate ; anthers subexserted; fruit globose, 7-11 mm. in diameter, glabrous, the pericarp very thin; seeds 2-4, 6-7 mm. long, dark-brown.
Type locality: San Jose, Costa Rica.
Distribution: Costa Rica, at an elevation of 1500 meters or less, chiefly in dry thickets and roadside hedges.