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anthesis about 3.5 mm. long, ovoid; sepals narrowly triangular, about 1.2 mm. 
long, acuminate, black-punctate; petals linear-lanceolate, about 3.5 mm. long, 
papillose-tomentose within along edges and apically; stamens 2.4-2.75 mm. 
long; filaments stout, glabrous, 1.2—1.4 mm. long; anthers erect, dorsifixed about 
one-third above base, lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm. long, with conspicuous black- 
punctate narrowly triangular area above point of attachment and extending 
into lobes, hairy dorsally along a medial line above middle, the conspicuously 
apiculate apex barbate; ovary at apex and at base of style rather sparingly 
hirsute with branched hairs; style slender, about 3 mm. long, enlarged at base; 
placenta subglobose, apically acicular; ovules 6 or 7, erect, uniseriate, enclosed ; 
fruits globose, about 7 mm. in diam. when dry. 
CUBA.—OrreEnTE: Vista Alegre, Maisi, July 12, 1938, Bro. Leon & W. Seifriz 18207 (NY). 
HAITI.—Borgne to Petit Borgne, on bank along road, sea level, Aug. 15, 1903, George V. 
Nash 435 (F, NY), fils. & fr. purple; road from Camp No. 1 to La Barriere Couchant, moun- 
tain slope, alt. 2500 ft., July 17, 1905, George V. Nash & Norman Taylor 1113 (NY), small 
tree, fls. purple; Massif des Cahos, Petite-Riviere de |’Artibonite, Perodin, on laterite, ca. 
900 m., Mar. 6, 1925, E. L. Ekman 3422 (S), frutex; Massif du Nord, St. Louis du Nord, 
valley of Riviere Barre, edge of the river, ca. 15 m., Apr. 13, 1925, HE. L. Ekman 3776 (G, NY, 
8, US), frutex 1.5-2 m. altus; Massif du Nord, Riviere St. Anne, ca. 50 m., June 20, 1925, 
E. L. Ekman 4376 (8). 
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.—Sasaneta: Prov. of Monte Cristy, Leonor, swampy soil, 
alt. 600-700 m., Dec. 7, 1930, E. J. Valeur 579 (C, F, MICH, MO, UC, US), small shrub, fl. 
red, berries blackish. San Jose: Prov. Santiago, Arr. Loma Bajita, virgin forest, alt. 700-800 
m., May 27, 1933, E. J. Valeur 882 (C, F, MO, NY, US), small tree, fl. reddish, berry black; 
Loma Bajita-Jicome Road, open pines, alt. 700-800 m., June 17, 1933, HE. J. Valeur 1023 
(LL, NY, US), shrub, fl. red & yellow. 
HISPANIOLA.—INpDEFINITE: without locality, O. Swartz s.n. (8, type); without locality, 
1802, A. Poiteau s.n. (G). 
Of the West Indian species, P. serrulata may be distinguished by its hairy 
anthers, conspicuously barbate at apex and with a medial line of stiff hairs 
dorsally above middle. The comparatively small obovate-elliptic crenulate 
leaves with fine spreading stellate pubescence beneath, and paniculate inflores- 
cences bipinnate only at base are other characteristics of note. 
14. Paratruesis Eacerstana Mez, Pflanzenreich IV. 236: 176. 1902. 
Fig. 14 and Plate 8. 
Shrub or tree, up to 4 m. high, twigs rather stout, tomentose with red stipitate 
dendroid and stellate hairs; leaves with petioles up to 2 cm. long, the petioles 
stellate pubescent beneath, inconspicuously marginate; leaf blades obovate- 
elliptic or oblanceolate-elliptic, 11-17 cm. long, 5-6 em. wide, apex subabruptly 
acuminate, base cuneate and decurrent on the petiole, membranaceous, paler 
beneath, pellucid-punctate, pubescent on lower surface with red stellate hairs, 
those of costal zone subsessile, those of marginal zone sessile and appressed, the 
zones not conspicuous, the margin conspicuously crenate, the costa elevated 
beneath, slightly impressed above, the lateral veins rather prominent beneath, 
finely reticulate on upper surface; inflorescences terminal, broadly and laxly 
pyramidal, up to 15 em. long, red tomentose with short stellate hairs; flowers 
corymbose or racemose-corymbose, bristly red tomentose with stellate hairs ; 
pedicels slender, 4-7 mm. long; flower buds before anthesis ovoid, about 5 mm. 
