Casimiroa pringlei (S. Wats.) Engl.

Casimiroa pringlei (S. Wats.) Engler Pfl. 3 4 : 178. 1896. Sargentia (?) Pringlei S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 26 : 134. 1891.
A shrub, 3-5 m. tall, with grayish bark and puberulent branchlets ; petioles 1-3.5 cm. long, puberulent ; leaves unifoliolate or sometimes digitately 2-3-foliolate, the lateral leaflets, when present, short-petioluled or sessile, obloug-oblauceolate, elliptic, orobovate, 2.5-9 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, acute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, the terminal leaflet somewhat longer and broader, all coriaceous, entire, pellucid-punctate, pubescent on the veins beneath, glabrous, or when young with few scattered hairs above, the midrib glandular, the margin often revolute in drying ; staminate flowers in short terminal panicles ; disk inconspicuous or wanting ; calyx glabrous, the sepals 4 or 5, triangular ; petals 4 or 5, greenish-yellow, narrowly oblanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, 1.4-2 mm. broad ; stamens 4 or 5, the filaments inserted at the base of the small abortive ovary, the anthers ovate or oval ; pedicels short, stout ; drupe subglobose or oval, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 12-18 mm. broad ; seeds oblong-obovate to oval, 10.5-12 mm. long, 6-8 mm. broad.
Type locality : San Jose Pass, mountains of San Luis Potosi.
Distribution : Mexico.