Scolosanthus wrightianus (Griseb.) C. Wright

Scolosanthus wrightianus fGriseb.) C. Wright; Sauv. Anal
Acad. Ci. Habana 6: 126. 1869.
Randia Wrightiana Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 122. 1866.
A shrub, sometimes 4.5 meters high, the branches grayish, the branchlets papillose-scaberulous, resinous, the internodes elongate, the spines stout, usually bifurcate; stipules minute; petioles stout, 1-1.5 mm. long; leaf-blades orbicular, rhombic-orbicular, or broadly obovate, 7-14 mm. long, 4-12 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse and apiculate or very shortly acuminate, rounded or obtuse at the base, thick-coriaceous, glabrous, green above, lustrous, the venation obsolete or the costa sulcate, paler beneath, the costa prominulous, the lateral nerves obsolete, the margin revolute; flowers fasciculate in the leaf-axils, short-pedicellate; calyx-lobes deltoid; corolla ,S mm. lonj,', Ihe lobes scmi(nal, one third as long as the tube; anthers 2 mm. long; fruit 4-5 mm. long.
Typp; locality: Eastern Cuba. Distribution: I^astcm Cuba.