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up to 5 mm. long, glabrous; placenta depressed-globose; ovules small, 11-14, 
partly biseriate, partially exposed. 
GUATEMALA.—Inperinite: Los Andes District, Feb. 25, 1926, S. J. Record G.3 (US, Y); 
Bobos District, Feb. 27, 1926, S. J. Record G.16 (US, Y); Santa Ines, Feb. 25, 1927, Carlos 
Galusser 3 (Y, type; US, isotype), small tree, “camaco.” 
BRITISH HONDURAS.—Inperinire: without locality, H. W. Winzerling s.n. (Y), 
‘““wwa’’ (a sterile specimen). 
HONDURAS.—Artantipa: Lancetilla Valley, near Tela, wet forest, alt. 20-600 m., Dec. 6, 
1927—Mar. 20, 1928, Paul C. Standley 53508 (A, F, US), shrub or tree 10-15 ft.; same locality, 
56795 (A, F, US), tree 30 ft., petals white; vicinity of San Alejo, at base of hills south of San 
Alejo near Rio San Alejo, dense wet forest, alt. 150-270 m., Apr. 22-27, 1947, Paul C. Standley 
7797 (F), tree 6 m. Comayacua: near Taulabe, along river, alt. 540-550 m., Apr. 8, 1947, 
Paul C. Standley, Louis O. Williams, Antonio Molina R. & Jaime Chacon P. 70038 (F), large 
shrub or small tree, inflorescence dull red; bosque pino-liquidambar de Montafia La Choca, 
Cordillera Comayagua, cerca de Coyocutena, alt. 1200 m., May 22, 1956, Antonio Molina R. 
7125 (F), fls. cremas, arbol 5 m. Copan: bosque abierto y mezclado, 5 kms, al sur de Sta. Rita, 
alt. 800 m., Apr. 17, 1956, Antonio Molina R. 6647 (F), fls. cremas, arbusto 3 m. CorTEs: 
matorrales humedos de Pena Blanca, Nacimiento del Rio Lindo, alt. 600 m., Apr. 23, 1956, 
Antonio Molina R. 6775 (F), fls. cremas, arbol 4-6 m. Yoro: near Progreso, Farm 43, Apr. 20, 
1929, W. D. Hottle 96 (F), tree 60 ft. by 16 inches, ‘‘cuya.” INDEFINITE: Montafia del Carmen, 
Sierra de Merendon, May, 1950, Tito Perez Estrada s.n. (F). 
3. PARATHESIS ACUMINATA Lundell, Wrightia 3: 125. 1965. Fig. 3. 
Shrub, 3 m. high, branchlets stout, minutely tomentose with fine appressed 
matted hairs; leaves with marginate petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaf blades oblanceo- 
late or narrowly elliptic-oblong, 9.5-20 em. long, 3—5.5 em. wide, apex acuminate, 
base acute or acuminate and decurrent, firmly chartaceous, at first finely to- 
mentose beneath with closely appressed matted hairs, glabrate, papillate above 
along midvein in young leaves, the midvein prominent, shallowly sulcate above, 
the lateral veins slender; inflorescences terminal or axillary, the terminal pyra- 
midal, paniculate, the panicles congested, 8 cm. long, 9 cm. wide at base, the 
ultimate branches reduced, usually only 2-4 mm. long, minutely tomentose with 
fine hairs; pedicels short, 2-4 mm. long, stout, densely papillose; flowers um- 
bellate, congested, 4-4.5 mm. long at anthesis, densely papillose; calyx small, 
the sepals narrowly triangular, scarcely 1 mm. long; petals linear-lanceolate, up 
to 4.5 mm. long, orange-red lineate, papillose-tomentose within with small 
glabrous area at base; stamens 2.75-3 mm. long; filaments slender, black- 
punctate, about 2 mm. long; anthers slender, about 1.5 mm. long, dorsifixed near 
middle, black-punctate dorsally with small glands; ovary glabrous except at 
base of style; style about 4 mm. long, pubescent at base and with a few hairs to 
middle; placenta globose; ovules minute, 11 or 12, uniseriate or crowded and 
partly biseriate. 
EL SALVADOR.—Santa ANA: matorrales y bosque mixto humedo 20 Kms. al 8.0. de 
Montecristo, alt. 1500 m., May 23, 1963, Antonio Molina R. & Albertina R. Molina 12576 
(F, type; F, isotype). fls. blancas, arbusto 3 m. 
The anthers of P. acuminata, dorsifixed slightly below the middle, apparently 
are versatile after anthesis. In the type only a few flowers are open, but some of 
the anthers are versatile, as typical of the species of this group. It is noteworthy 
that the inflorescences are either terminal or axillary. 
