Randia lasiantha (Standl.) Standl.

Randia lasiantha Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 201
1919.
Basanacantha lasiantha Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 134. 1916.
Branches grayish, the branchlets divaricate, leafy at the apex, glabrate, the spines few, opposite, 6 mm. long; stipules glumaceous, crowded and imbricate, oblong or broadly ovate, 6-8 mm. long, obtuse, thin, brownish, glabrous outside, white-pilose within; petioles slender, 6-15 mm. long, densely whitish-pilose; leaf-blades oval-obovate, 7-12 cm. long, 3.5-6.5 cm. wide, acute to rounded at the base, acute or acutish or abruptly acute at the apex, membranaceous, subconcolorous, scabro-hirtellous above, densely soft-pilose beneath with short grayish hairs, the venation plane above, prominulous beneath, the lateral nerves 9-12 on each side, subarcuate, ascending, usually at an acute angle, the margin plane; flowers dioecious, terminal; corolla salverform, white, densely pilose-sericeous outside with white hairs, the tube 6-7 cm. long, slender, sparsely pilose within, the throat naked, the lobes narrowly lanceolate, longattenuate, 4.5-7 cm. long, 9-12 mm. wide, glabrous within; anthers inserted in the corollathroat, 1 cm. long.
Type locality: In forests on dry limestone, around Alhajuela, Chagres Valley, Province of Panama, Panama, altitude 30 to 100 meters.
Distribution: In thickets or forest, Panama.