Bunchosia ocellata Lundell, Wrightia 6: 28. 1978.

Shrubs, treelets or rarely larger trees, 2—8 (--20) m, young branchlets without lenticels (non-distal flower-bearing branchlets frequently lenticellate), densely appressed-sericeous, rapidly glabrescent. Larger leaves 8.5--16 cm de largo y 3--6 cm de ancho, elliptic (rarely oblanceolate or oblong), abaxial surface initially abundantly sericeous, rapidly glabrescent to scattered sericeous, trichomes T-shaped, sessile and appressed, longest trabeculae 0.25—0.6 mm, more or less straight, abaxial glands per side of midrib (0) 1 (2) proximal and between midrib and margin (sometimes with an additional at leaf apex), most proximal 1--2 mm; stipules (0.25--) 0.4—1 (--1.5) mm; petioles (1.5) 2—4 (6) mm.  Inflorescences usually from axils with mature leaves present or lost but from, or immediately below, current leaf-bearing portion of branchlet (rarely on distal short lateral shoots with leaves lost), single (rarely paired), simple pseudoraceme, pseudoracemes 3—5.5 (6.5) cm with 4—9 (13) flowers, bracts (excluding the most proximal) 1—2 mm, peduncles (1) 1.5—4.5 mm (similar or rarely to 6 mm in fruit), bracteoles 0.5—1 mm, one bracteole (rarely neither or both) per pair subtending each flower with one gland, bracteole gland 0.6—1.0 mm, decurrent, pedicel (2)3—7 (8.5) mm (to 10 mm in fruit). Flowers with sepal glands 2—4 mm, sepals equaling to extending 0.5 mm beyond glands, somewhat appressed to apically spreading away from flower bud prior to anthesis, abaxial surface glabrous, marginally ciliate; ovary 2-locular, glabrous, styles free or connivent or connate but usually free apically or separating easily, glabrous; stigmas 2, equal, free to strongly connivent. Mature  fruit (10) 12--17 mm de largo y 10--14 mm de ancho, 2-locular, ovoid or globose, unlobed, glabrous, slightly to distinctly granulose, dull, yellow, orange, or red, apex obtuse, sometimes base of style forming an apicula; immature fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, glabrous, slightly granulose or more or less smooth, dull.

Rare, evergreen forest, southern atlantic zone; fl nov-dec, immature fr nov-dec, abr; Stevens 23405, Suazo 4601; Mexico (Chiapas), Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, y Costa Rica.This species flowers near the start of the rainy season. In the printed Flora  Bunchosia ocellata was treated as a synonym of Bunchosia polystachia (Andrews) DC. (based on Malpighia polystachia Andrews). Here, I follow the narrower concept of Anderson (1988), whereby B. polystachia is restricted to the West Indies. Bunchosia polystachia sensu stricto differs from B. ocellata in having larger petioles, (5--) 8—10 (--15) mm vs. (1.5--) 2—4 (--6) mm with a larger petiole/leaf blade ratio, (0.05---) 0.07--0.1 versus 0.015—0.04 (--0.05),  and generally longer pseudoracemes, (3--) 5—10 (--12) cm versus 3—5.5 (6.5) cm, with more flowers, 10—30 versus 4—9 (13). In addition the inflorescence in B. polystachia can be either a single axillary pseudoraceme or both terminal and axillary, while in B. ocellata the inflorescence is always axillary. The geographic distribution of B. ocellata is very odd and that suggests that the species is not correctly delineated.