Randia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Rubiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Evergreen, often spiny shrubs or trees, with oposite leaves and perfect solitary, usually axillary flowers. Calyx-lobes 4. Corolla funnelform, salverform or campanulate, its lobes 5, convolute. Stamens 5, adnate to the throat of the corolla; filaments short or nearly wanting. Disk annular or cushionlike. Ovary 2-celled or very rarely 3-4-celled; ovules several or many in each cavity; styles usually united, stout, terminating in a club-shaped, spindleshaped or rarely cleft stigma. Berry usually 2-celled. Seeds free or in a pulp; testa thin, the endosperm horny. [In honor of Isaac Band, English apothecary.] About 100 species, natives of tropical regions. Type species: Eandia mitis L.