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GUATEMALA.—Guartema.a: 1940, Ignacio Aguilar 503 (F). HusnurTenanco: Chacula, 
alt. 1600 m., June 27, 1896, Caec. & Ed. Seler 3134 (GH, K, NY, US); dry slopes between 
San Ildefonso Ixtahuacan and Cuilco, alt. 1350-1600 m., Aug. 16, 1942, Julian A. Steyermark 
50720 (F, MO), shrub 15 ft. tall, leaves deep green above, paler green beneath, fruit wine-red, 
as are pedicels; between Las Palmas and Chacula, Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, alt. 1400-1600 
m., Sept. 1, 1942, Julian A. Steyermark 51746 (F, US), tree 30 ft. tall, pubescence ferruginous- 
brown, ‘‘pish-match,” “uva.” 
P. chiapensis is variable in flower size, but the fine stipitate stellate hairs of 
the lower leaf surface are distinctive for the species. Matuda 4416 and Davis 
55-78 have small abnormal flowers, scarcely 5 mm. long, with some abortive 
anthers scarcely 1.5 mm. long, but the sepals and pubescence are typical. Sepals 
are usually the longest in the genus, ranging up to 3 mm. in length, but in col- 
lections with the smaller abnormal flowers, they may be less than 1.5 mm. long. 
Carlson 2007 has a different date and locality on each label, but all the speci- 
mens are so uniform that they appear to have been taken from the same shrub. 
10. ParatueEsis RuFA Lundell, Wrightia 3:73. 1963. Fig. 10. 
Arborescent shrub or small tree up to 17 em. diam., branchlets stout, tomentose 
with rather loose red multibranched dendroid hairs; leaves with stout marginate 
petioles up to 2 em. long, the petioles tomentose beneath, stellate pubescent 
above at first with appressed hairs; leaf blades oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate or 
obovate, 12-27 em. long, 5-9 cm. wide, apex subabruptly acuminate or caudate- 
acuminate, base acute and decurrent, thin at first, becoming subcoriaceous and 
rugose at maturity, obscurely bizonal, at first pubescent above with stellate 
hairs, especially along midvein, densely pubescent on undersurface with small 
fine sessile stellate hairs, the hairs spreading or subappressed in costal zone, 
usually appressed in marginal zone, glabrescent, the margin usually conspicu- 
ously crenulate, costa and lateral veins prominent beneath, slightly impressed 
above; inflorescences red, terminal, pyramidal, tripinnately paniculate, up to 
22 cm. long, papillose-puberulent and tomentulose with red loose or multi- 
branched dendroid hairs; pedicels 3-5 mm. long; flowers subcorymbose, about 
5 mm. long at anthesis, papillose-puberulent and finely stellate tomentulose; 
sepals subulate, 1.75-2.2 mm. long; petals narrowly lanceolate, about 5.5 mm. 
long, papillose-tomentose within apically and along edges, punctate in lines; 
stamens about 3 mm. long; filaments stout, glabrous, about 1.3 mm. long; 
anthers erect, dorsifixed one-third above base, lanceolate-oblong, about 2.4 
mm. long, with conspicuous triangular black-punctate area above attachment, 
the large glands extending into lobes; anthers conspicuously apiculate; ovary 
ovoid, glabrous, or sparsely hirtellous and papillose apically and at base of style; 
style 4.5 mm. long; placenta columnar or obovoid; ovules 6 or 7, elliptic-oblong, 
oo enclosed ; fruits black, depressed-globose, up to 8 mm. in diam. when 
ry. 
MEXICO.—Cutapas: table land about Ocuilapa, alt. 3400-3800 ft., Aug. 21, 1895, E. W. 
Nelson 8045 (NY, US). 
BRITISH HONDURAS.—Totxpo: Toledo, May 27, 1907, M. E. Peck 918 (GH, NY); 
Botan Creek, Rio Grande, on riverbank, May 25, 1944, Percy H. Gentle 4649 (LL, type; 
TEX, isotype), tree, 7 in. diam., flowers pink, berries black. INDEFINITE: Forest Home, in 
forest shade, alt. 200 ft., Nov. 7, 1932, W. A. Schipp S-405 (A, BM, F, G, MICH, MO, §, UC), 
tall shrub, flowers pink, with yellow stamens, fruits black. 
