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leaf blades lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or sometimes oblanceolate, 4.5-7.5 
cm. long, 1.7-3.2 em. wide, apex obtusely acuminate, base acutish and decurrent, 
chartaceous, paler beneath, inconspicuously black-punctate, glabrous above, 
pubescent on undersurface with rather coarse stalked or subsessile stellate hairs, 
the rays of hairs erect or spreading, not bizonal or obscurely so, but some mar- 
ginal hairs subappressed, the margin rather remotely denticulate-crenulate, 
midvein elevated beneath, nearly plane above, the lateral veins 7-9, prominent 
beneath, inconspicuous above; inflorescences terminal, paniculate, unbranched, 
very small, up to 3.5 em. long, rather sparingly pubescent with reddish sessile 
or short stalked multibranched dendroid hairs, the rays of hairs erect or spread- 
ing, sparsely papillose-puberulent, the calyx and corolla rather thinly tomentose 
with sessile stellate hairs; flowers corymbose; pedicels up to 4 mm. long; flower 
buds before anthesis broadly ovoid, about 3.5 mm. long; sepals triangular, about 
1 mm. long, acutish, not black-punctate; petals lanceolate, about 3 mm. long, 
papillose-tomentose within marginally and above middle, black-punctate in 
short lines; stamens about 2 mm. long; filaments stout, glabrous, about 1 mm. 
long; anthers erect, ovate-triangular, about 1.3 mm. long, dorsifixed about 
two-fifths above base, with conspicuous black-punctate triangular area and with 
glands extending into lobes, apex ebarbate, or with a few short hairs; ovary 
glabrous or with an occasional stiff branched hair at apex; style slender, glabrous, 
2-2.5 mm. long; placenta depressed-globose, minutely apiculate; ovules 5, 
obovoid, uniseriate, erect, enclosed. 
HAITI.—Sup: Morne de la Hotte, in declivibus sept. orient. in montibus sylvatic., cr. 
800 m. alt., June 11, 1917, H. L. Ekman H.189 (S, type), flor. roseis. 
The species is known only from the holotype at Stockholm. 
In both P. parvifolia and P. serrulata the stellate pubescence of the branchlets 
and sepals is finer than in the related species of the mainland. 
13. PARATHESIS SERRULATA (Swartz) Mez, Urb. Symb. Antill. 2: 403. 1901. 
Fig. 13 and Plates 5, 6, 7. 
Ardisia serrulata Swartz, Prodr. 48. 1788. 
Shrub or small tree, branchlets slender to stout, tomentose with dark-red 
stellate hairs; leaves with petioles 5-12 mm. long, sometimes appearing sub- 
sessile, the blade prominently decurrent on the petiole, the petiole canaliculate, 
glabrescent above, tomentose beneath; leaf blades obovate-elliptic or oblanceo- 
late, usually 6-10 cm. long, rarely up to 14 cm. long, 2.8-6 em. wide, apex sub- 
abruptly acuminate, the acumen obtusish, base cuneately narrowed, chartaceous, 
paler beneath, pubescent on lower surface with fine stellate sessile hairs with 
long rays, these usually appressed, indistinctly bizonal, the marginal zone 
glabrescent, the margin crenulate, costa prominent beneath, nearly plane above, 
the lateral veins slender but conspicuous on undersurface, slightly impressed 
above; inflorescences terminal, paniculate, usually small, sometimes up to 15 
cm. long, only the basal branches with secondary branches, the apical simple, 
pubescent with red stellate sessile hairs, the hairs spreading, and papillose- 
puberulent, the pedicels and flowers finely red tomentose with spreading stellate 
hairs; flowers corymbose or racemose-corymbose, stellate-tomentose; pedicels 
slender, 2.5-6 mm. long; calyx and corolla black-punctate; flower buds before 
