LUNDELL: THE GENUS PARATHESIS 77 
style about 4 mm. long; ovules 5~7, rarely 4 or 8, uniseriate, enclosed; fruits 
depressed globose, drying up to 1 cm. in diam. 
MEXICO.—Curapas: along road between Teneapa and Yajalon, alt. 3000-5000 ft., Oct. 13, 
1895, E. W. Nelson 3283 (GH, US); Municipio de Ocosingo, limestone area, near Laguna 
Ocotal Grande, ca. 25-30 km. Southeast of Monte (Cerro) Libano, in tropical evergreen forest, 
elev. ca. 950 m., July 26, 1954, Robert L. Dressler 1508 (GH). Guerrero: edge of stream, 514 
miles 8.E. Colotlipa, alt. 3100 ft., June 26, 1953, V. M. Hicks & Chester M. Rowell, Jr. 3576 
(MICH), bush, 5 ft. high, flowers red, anthers yellow, fruit purple. Hrpauao: south of Tam- 
azunchale, along streams, June 17, 1935, Ora M. Clark 6879 (MO, NY), large shrub; Chapul- 
huacan, Nov. 27, 1937, Leslie A. Kenoyer 979 (F), 8-28-38, s.n. (MICH), tree; in ravine on 
mountainside, km. 340 of highway, between Chapulhuacan and Tamazunchale, Aug. 20, 1943, 
C. L. Lundell & Amelia A. Lundell 12419 (LL, type & isotype; MICH, US, isotypes), slender 
arborescent shrub, 4 ft. high, inflorescences and flowers rose-red, fruits depressed-globose, 
black. Micuoacan: Hacienda Coahuayula, Feb. 1901, G. M. Emrick 30 (F). Oaxaca: without 
locality, 1845, F. M. Liebmann s.n. (P); Casolapan, Nov. 4, 1913, F. Salazar s.n. (US). Pursua: 
Carlos Pacheco, Mar. 11, 1913, F. Salazar s.n. (MEXU, US); Mesa San Diego-Huauchiango, 
Helia Bravo H. s.n. (MEXU). San Luts Porost: river banks, etc., Tamasopo, June 11, 1890, 
C. G. Pringle 3101 (A, BM, F, G, GH, LL, MEXU, MO, NY, P, S, US), 5 to 8 feet; vicinity of 
Rascon, July 19-22, 1905, Edward Palmer 666 (F, GH, MO, UC, US); Micos Falls, alt. 1400 
ft., July 12, 1933, Robert A. Vines 338 (US); Tamazunchale, in wet second growth on hillside, 
July, 1937, C. L. Lundell & Amelia A. Lundell 7136 (A, LL, MICH, NY), shrub, 1.5 m., 
inflorescences and flowers red, fruits dark blue; Tamazunchale, Poistapa, July 11, 1937, 
Mary Taylor Edwards 523 (F, MO, TEX), Aug. 24, 1937, 631 (F); Tamazunchale, Nov. 26, 
1937, Leslie A. Kenoyer 970 (F, MO); 5 miles north of Tamazunchale, July 3, 1940, C. L. 
Hitchcock & L. R. Stanford 6948 (GH, MICH, UC), shrub 4 ft. tall; Tamazunchale, Aug. 16, 
1940, Leslie A. Kenoyer C193 (NY); near Tamazunchale, along highway, elev. 1000 ft., July 5, 
1941, Mr. & Mrs. Wm. C. Leavenworth 897 (F, MO), shrub, 10 ft. high; near Axtla, elev. 200 
ft., June 23, 1942, J. N. Weaver 662 (GH, US); Palitla, in forest, July 13, 1943, C. L. Lundell 
12227 (LL, MICH, NY, US), arborescent, 1 in. diam., 5 ft. high, pedicels and flowers pink; 
Tamazunchale, alt. 360 ft., July 18, 1945, Geo. L. Fisher 45182 (8). Tamavuipas: along the 
moist sandy banks of Rio Sabinas, under Taxodium, 55 mi. south Ciudad Victoria, alt. 115 m., 
July 31, 1948, F. G. Meyer & D. J. Rogers 2854 (G, MO), shrub to 8 ft. tall, inflorescence and 
fruit light pink. Veracruz: Mirador, 1838, J. J. Linden 397 (K); Zacuapan and vicinity, 
moist shady woods, Sept. 1906, C. A. Purpus 1953 (F, GH, MO, NY, UC, US); Chontla, 
Feb. 1910, R. Cardenas 324 (F, US); on the lower slopes of El Cerro de Ejecatepetl, 12-14 km. 
northwest of Campo Experimental de Hule, El Palmar, elev. 1000-2390 ft., June 7, 1944, 
Jose Vera Santos 3016 (LL, MICH), shrub 2 m. tall, flowers light red-purple to pink. INpEF- 
INITE: 1865-1866, M. Hahn s.n. (P). 
P. brevipes is perhaps the same as P. Donnell-Smithii Mez. The Mexican 
material is quite variable, and P. brevipes needs to be evaluated in the field. 
P. Donnell-Smithii is one of the enigmas of the genus, the type not being repre- 
sentative of the broader populations. 
25. ParATHesis DoNNeLL-Smiruit Mez, Pflanzenreich IV. 236: 176. 1902. 
Figs. 24, 25 and Plates 14, 15. 
Parathesis platyphylla Lundell, Wrightia 1: 160. 1946. 
Arborescent shrub, branchlets stout, turgid and brittle when fresh, drying 
subangular, very minutely appressed pubescent with stellate tawny hairs, 
glabrescent and blackish-gray early; leaves with marginate petioles up to 2.5 
em. long; leaf blades oblanceolate or elliptic, 10-25 cm. long, 3.5-9 em. wide, 
apex subabruptly long acuminate or acuminate, base acuminate, membranaceous 
