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COLOMBIA.—MaapaLEena: Santa Marta, Valparaiso, alt. 3500 ft., Mar. 1898-1899, 
Herbert H. Smith 1726 (NY, type; A, BM, F, G, GH, MO, 8, US, isotypes). 
6. PARATHESIS PANAMENSIS Lundell, Wrightia 2: 69. 1963. Fig. 6. 
Tree, branchlets rather stout, red puberulent and papillose at first, glabrescent; 
leaves slender petiolate, the petioles up to 1.5 em. long; leaf blades oblanceolate 
or oblanceolate-oblong, 6.5-11.5 em. long, 2-4.2 em. wide, apex subabruptly 
short acuminate, the acumen obtuse, base acuminate, decurrent, entire, black- 
punctate, very thin, at first minutely pubescent on lower surface with sessile 
stellate red subappressed hairs, glabrescent, costa elevated beneath, nearly 
plane above, the veins fine and reticulate; inflorescences terminal, small, pani- 
culate, 4-7 em. long, up to 4 cm. wide at base, densely and minutely pubescent 
with reddish hairs; flowers papillose and puberulent with minute hairs, corym- 
bose, the buds at anthesis slender, pyriform, about 5 mm. long; pedicels 4-6 
mm. long; calyx small, densely black-punctate, the sepals subulate, 1.7-2 mm. 
long; petals lanceolate-linear, 5 mm. long, black-punctate in lines; stamens 4 
mm. long; anthers small, versatile, dorsifixed medially, lanceolate-oblong, 
1.5 mm. long, black-punctate dorsally with glands extending into basal lobes; 
filaments slender, 3-3.5 mm. long, black-punctate in lines; ovary puberulent at 
apex with minute reddish hairs; placenta depressed-globose, minutely apiculate; 
ovules 5 or 6, erect, enclosed, uniseriate. 
PANAMA.—Inperinite: Talamanca Valley, 1927, G. P. Cooper & G. M. Slater 153 (US, 
type; Y, isotype). 
7. PARATHESIS COLUMNARIS Lundell, Wrightia 3: 62. 1963. Fig. 7 and Plate 2. 
Shrub or small tree, twigs sordidly tomentose with red stalked multibranched 
dendroid hairs, often branched to base, glandular, appearing waxy; leaves with 
slender canaliculate petioles up to 2 cm. long, glabrous above, tomentose beneath; 
leaf blades oblanceolate, 10-18 cm. long, 2.5-5 em. wide, apex subabruptly 
acuminate, base attenuate and acuminate, decurrent on petiole, thin, charta- 
ceous, pellucid-punctate, entire or irregularly and obscurely crenulate, glabrous 
above, bizonal beneath and pubescent with red stellate hairs, densely so at first 
along costa and in costal zone, glabrescent, the lateral veins fine but evident 
on undersurface, obscure above; inflorescences terminal, paniculate, up to 20 
cm. long, equaling or exceeding leaves, red tomentose with short branched hairs, 
sparingly so on branches; flowers corymbose, densely papillose; pedicels very 
slender, 4-10 mm. long, papillose; flower buds slender, up to 7 mm. long at 
anthesis; sepals papillose-puberulent, triangular, 1-1.4 mm. long, acuminate, 
black-punctate in lines; petals linear-lanceolate, united at base, up to 7 mm. long, 
attenuate-acuminate, black-punctate in lines, short papillose-tomentose inside 
over entire surface; stamens 3-4.5 mm. long; filaments slender, 1.3-1.7 mm. 
long, punctate; anthers erect, linear-lanceolate, 2.3-3.5 mm. long, dorsifixed 
about one-fourth above base, acutish, black-punctate in narrow band almost to 
apex and with glands extending into lobes; ovary glabrous or with a few scattered 
apical hairs, the style slender; placenta broadly ovoid, rounded; ovules 7 or 8, 
uniseriate, enclosed. 
MEXICO.—Cutapas: Mt. Ovando, Apr. 9-12, 1937, Eizi Matuda 1851 (LL); Santa Isabel, 
Motozintla, in forest, Sept. 23, 1946, Eizi Matuda 16406 (F, MEXU, MICH), frutex 2-3 m.; 
