Randia oaxacana Standl.

Randia oaxacana Standley, sp. nov Branch lets brown, rimose, glabrous, compressed below the nodes; stipules unknown; leaves large, short-petiolate, membranaceous, the petioles stout, 10-14 mm. long, glabrous; leaf-blades (perfect ones not seen) oval-oblong, about 19 cm. long and 9 cm. wide or larger, obtuse or subobtuse at the base, fuscous when dried, glabrous, the nerves inconspicuous above, elevated beneath, about 13 on each side, very slender, subarcuate, ascending at an obtuse angle, obscurely anastomosing near the margin; flowers dioecious, terminal, solitary, very shortly pedicellate; hypanthium of the pistillate flower eylindric, glabrous, 6 mm. long; calyx campanulate, 4 mm. long and broad, the teeth linear-attenuate, erect, 2.5-3 mm. long; corolla glabrous outside, the slender tube 4 cm. long, 4 mm. wide above the middle, slightly constricted below the mouth, the 5 lobes lance-oblong, 3.5-4 cm. long, narrowly long-acuminate, spreading, conspicuously veined, glabrous within.
Frutex vel arbor parva omnino glabra; folia magna breviter petiolata membranacea, lamina ovali-oblonga basi obtusa vel subobtusa, nervis lateralibus utroque latere circa 13; flores dioeci, feminei terminales solitarii fere sessiles; calyx campanulatus, dentibus brevibus lineari-attenuatis; corolla magna extus glabra, tubo gracili elongato, lobis 5 lanceolato-oblongis longe anguste acuminatis tubo fere aequilongis.
Type collected in dense forest, vicinity of Choapam, Oaxaca, July, 1894, E. W. Nelson 842 (Herb. Field Mus. no. 5997 1 2).
Known only from imperfect and unsatisfactory material, but clearly different from any other species of Randia known from North America.