LUNDELL: THE GENUS PARATHESIS 59 
decurrent, thinly chartaceous, rather obscurely denticulate, glabrescent early 
above, uniformly stellate pubescent over entire surface beneath with red stipitate 
hairs, the costa prominent beneath, slightly impressed above, the primary 
lateral veins slender and elevated beneath, plane above; inflorescences terminal, 
shorter than leaves, paniculate, 12 em. long, red-tomentose with subsessile 
rather coarse multibranched dendroid hairs; pedicels short, 2-4 mm. long, 
papillose and sparingly stellate-hirtellous; flowers corymbose, crowded, bristly 
tomentose with short red stellate hairs and papillose, up to 4.5 mm. long at 
anthesis; sepals narrowly triangular, up to 1.5 mm. long, acuminate, black- 
punctate; petals linear-lanceolate, 4.5 mm. long, black-punctate in lines, papil- 
lose-tomentose within along edges and apically; stamens less than 3 mm. long; 
filaments about 1.5 mm. long; anthers erect, dorsifixed one-third above base, 
elliptic-lanceolate, about 2.2 mm. long, sometimes with a few short reddish hairs 
apically, prominently black-punctate, with glands extending down into lobes; 
ovary ovoid, tapering into style, with scattered short erect hairs apically; style 
about 3 mm. long; ovules 6, uniseriate, enclosed; fruits globose, borne on stout 
pedicels about 5 mm. long. 
GUATEMALA.—AtTA VERAPAz: Sebol, ca. 500 m. east, in corozal, Apr. 22, 1964, Hlias 
Contreras 4464 (LL), shrub, 2 in. diam., 12 ft. high, fruit black. 
BRITISH HONDURAS.—Stann Creek: Middlesex, in high ridge, May 3, 1939, Percy H. 
Gentle 2779 (MICH, type; A, isotype), a small tree. 
A sterile collection from Honduras, Christine von Hagen & Wolfgang von 
Hagen 1328 (F, NY), and a fruiting collection from Guatemala, Julian A. 
Steyermark 39917 (F, NY), appear to be referable here. 
17. PARATHESIS AERUGINOSA Standl., Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 526. 1927. 
Fig. 17. 
Arborescent shrub, up to 3 m. high, branchlets stout, bristly tomentose with 
dark red, coarse, stipitate, stellate hairs; leaves with petioles 3-12 mm. long, the 
petioles red tomentose beneath, canaliculate and glabrescent above; leaf blades 
oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 9-20 em. long, 4-7 cm. wide, apex subabruptly 
acuminate, base cuneately narrowed and decurrent on the petiole, chartaceous, 
black-punctate, uniformly pubescent on lower surface with coarse stellate red 
hairs, these sessile, or subsessile, with long spreading and erect rays, sometimes 
obscurely bizonal, the marginal hairs appressed, rather obscurely crenulate, the 
costa elevated beneath, nearly plane above, the lateral veins slender, slightly 
impressed above; inflorescences terminal, paniculate, pyramidal, up to 15 em. 
long, ferruginous-tomentose with sessile stellate hairs and papillose-puberulent ; 
flowers corymbose, 3.5-4 mm. long at anthesis, stellate, hirtellous and papillose- 
puberulent, the calyx and corolla black-punctate; pedicels short, 2-5 mm. 
long; sepals narrowly triangular, 1-1.2 mm. long; petals narrowly lanceolate, 
3.8-4 mm. long, papillose-tomentose within along edges and apically; stamens 
2.5 mm. long; filaments glabrous, about 1 mm. long; anthers erect, about 2 mm. 
long, with conspicuous black-punctate triangular area above attachment and 
extending into lobes, dorsifixed about one-third above base, apex apiculate : 
ovary glabrous; style slender, 3.5 mm. long; placenta minute; ovules 5-7, 
uniseriate, enclosed. 
