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long, the calyx and corolla black-punctate; sepals narrowly triangular, 1.3-1.5 
mm. long, attenuate-acuminate; petals linear-lanceolate, 4-4.5 mm. long, 
papillose-tomentose within along edges and apically, united at base; stamens 
2.22.5 mm. long; filaments glabrous, stout, 1.2-1.4 mm. long; anthers erect, 
sparsely barbate apically, dorsifixed about one-third above base, oblong-lanceo- 
late, 1.8-2 mm. long, apiculate, conspicuously black-punctate, the glands ex- 
tending below point of attachment, the lobes short with narrow sinus; ovary and 
style glabrous, or with occasional hairs at apex of ovary, the style slender, about 
3 mm. long; placenta obovoid; ovules 6 or 7, uniseriate, enclosed. 
ECUADOR.—InpeEriniTE: Balao, in silvis, Jan. 1892, H. F. A. Eggers 14240 (A, US, 
isotypes), frutex 8’ alt., florib. violaceis. 
15. PARATHESIS AMAZONICA Mez, Fedde Rep. Spec. Nov. 16: 416.1920. Fig. 15. 
Twigs rather slender, densely tomentose with dark red stipitate dendroid and 
stellate hairs; leaves with petioles up to 1.2 cm. long, the petioles canaliculate, 
red tomentose, glabrescent above; leaf blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 9-18 
em. long, 3-6 em. wide, apex subabruptly acuminate, base cuneate and de- 
current on the petiole, chartaceous, pellucid-punctate, paler beneath, glabrescent 
above, uniformly pubescent on lower surface with red short-stalked or subsessile 
stellate hairs, the rays of hairs erect and spreading, the margin minutely cren- 
ulate; inflorescences terminal, laxly pyramidal, up to 15 em. long, tomentose 
with short dark red stellate hairs; flowers subecorymbose, the terminal subrace- 
mose, densely tomentose with short red stellate bristly hairs; pedicels 4-6 mm. 
long; flower buds before anthesis about 4 mm. long; sepals triangular, 1-1.2 mm. 
long, acuminate, orange-punctate; petals united at base, linear-lanceolate, about 
3.5 mm. long, linear punctate, papillose-tomentose within along edges and 
apically; stamens small, 2—-2.2 mm. long; filaments glabrous, about 1—1.4 mm. 
long, stout; anthers erect, ovate, 1-1.2 mm. long, dorsifixed about one-fourth 
above base, conspicuously black-punctate above point of attachment, the 
punctate area small; ovary and style entirely glabrous, the style slender, about 
3 mm. long; placenta ellipsoid; ovules 5, uniseriate, enclosed. 
BRAZIL.—InpverinirteE: Rio Acre, Sta. Seringal S. Francisco, Oct. 1911, E. Ule 9686 (K, 
isotype), bl. purpurn. 
P. amazonica, which has anthers among the smallest in the genus, is notable 
for the dark red dense bristly tomentum of the inflorescences, very finely crenu- 
late leaves uniformly stellate pubescent on lower surface with mostly stipitate 
hairs, and completely glabrous ovary and style. 
A South American collection of M. A. Bonpland at Paris bearing the name, 
Ardisia ferruginea Kunth, may be the type of that taxon. The specimen is sterile, 
but it appears to represent a form of P. amazonica. The binomial is not to be 
confused with Parathesis ferruginea Lundell, a species of Mexico. 
16. PARATHESIS BELIZENSIS Lundell, Wrightia 3: 61. 1963. Fig. 16. 
A small tree, branchlets rather stout, tomentose with rather coarse dark red 
short stipitate dendroid and stellate hairs; leaves with stout marginate petioles 
up to 1 em. long; leaf blades oblong-elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, 10-20 em. 
long, 4-6.5 em. wide, apex subabruptly acuminate, base narrow and acute, 
