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elevated beneath, slightly impressed above, the primary lateral veins slender, 
impressed above; inflorescences terminal, laxly and broadly pyramidal, tri- 
pinnately paniculate, exceeding the leaves, up to 20 cm. long and equally as 
wide at base, the indument sparse, minute, closely appressed, stellate-lepidote; 
pedicels slender, up to 8 mm. long, papillose-puberulent; flowers subracemose- 
corymbose, minutely tomentose, the buds ovoid, up to 4.5 mm. long at anthesis; 
sepals triangular, 1-1.2 mm. long, acute, punctate; petals narrowly lanceolate, 
up to 5 mm. long, thinly papillose-tomentulose within except at base, orange- 
and black-punctate in lines; stamens about 2.8 mm. long; filaments rather 
slender, up to 1.5 mm. long; anthers erect, lanceolate, 1.8-2 mm. long, narrowed 
to the acutish apex, dorsifixed, the dorsal punctate area small and triangular, 
consisting of a few minute black glands; ovary finely and minutely tomentose, 
tapering into style; style about 3 mm. long, tomentose below, pubescent to above 
middle; ovules 6, uniseriate, enclosed. 
MEXICO.—Veracruz: Orizaba, April, 1855, Mateo Botteri 910 (F, type; BM, G, GH, K, 
isotypes); Orizaba, Mar. 1891, P. Toro s.n. (MEXU). 
P. elliptica is unique in several features, notably in having a pubescent style 
tomentose basally, petals thinly papillose-tomentose over entire surface within, 
and anthers black-punctate dorsally with only a few small glands. Its large 
spreading inflorescences and elliptic leaves are also distinguishing features. 
In P. elliptica axillary inflorescences occasionally are present, sometimes on 
the same branch, as exemplified by the type of the species at Chicago. Its affinity 
appears to be with P. melanosticta (Schlecht.) Hemsl. which has strictly axillary 
inflorescences. 
24. PARATHESIS BREVIPES Lundell, Wrightia 3: 62. 1963. Fig. 23 and Plate 13. 
Arborescent shrub, branchlets rather stout, minutely ferruginous-tomentose 
at first with closely appressed stellate-lepidote indument; leaves with marginate 
petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaf blades oblanceolate, oblanceolate-elliptic or elliptic- 
oblong, 12-27 cm. long, 4-8.5 em. wide, apex subabruptly acuminate, base 
acuminate and decurrent, crenulate to subentire, often repand, pellucid-punctate, 
membranaceous, drying brown and slightly paler beneath, bizonal, obscurely 
so early, the pubescence of lower surface of blade of minute closely appressed 
stellate hairs, glabrescent at maturity, the midvein elevated and conspicuous 
beneath, nearly plane above, primary lateral veins slender, reticulation incon- 
spicuous; inflorescences terminal, narrowly pyramidal, tripinnately paniculate, 
7.5-27 cm. long, minutely tomentose with appressed stellate hairs; pedicels 
short, usually 2.5-4 mm. long, papillose-puberulent; flowers corymbose-race- 
mose, the corymbs comparatively few-flowered, the rachis elongating as flowering 
progresses, the rachis of racemes at length up to 1.5 em. long; flowers at anthesis 
up to 4.5 mm. long, finely ferruginous-tomentose, the perianth pellucid-punctate 
and black-punctate or orange-punctate; sepals ovate-triangular, 1-1.4 mm. 
long, acuminate; petals linear-lanceolate, up to 4.5 mm. long, orange- and 
black-punctate in lines, short papillose-tomentose on inner surface along margins 
and apically; stamens about 2.5 mm. long; filaments about 1.2 mm. long; an- 
thers erect, ovate, about 2 mm. long, dorsifixed about two-fifths above base, 
orange-punctate dorsally but usually with black glands present; ovary ovoid, 
minutely stellate-tomentose above middle, the apical hairs stiff and erect; 
