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hairs ventrally, the dense papillose-puberulent indument of the flowers, the 
small sepals scarcely 1 mm. long, mostly broadly elliptic leaves, tomentose 
ovary, and minute ovules are distinctive features of P. emarginata. 
27. PARATHESIS GUATEMALENSIS Lundell, Wrightia 3: 65. 1963. Fig. 27. 
Shrub, branchlets dull red, rather stout, at first densely ferruginous-tomentose 
with fine appressed hairs, glabrescent at length and appearing lepidote; leaves 
with marginate petioles up to 1.3 em. long; leaf blades lanceolate, lanceolate- 
elliptic or oblanceolate, 9-16 cm. long, 3-7.5 em. wide, apex subabruptly acu- 
minate, base cuneate and decurrent, firm and subcoriaceous, repand and denticu- 
late or subentire, midvein prominent beneath, the primary lateral veins con- 
spicuous on undersurface, slightly impressed above, upper surface somewhat 
rugulose, and at first stellate pubescent, glabrescent very early except along 
costa, bizonal, the ferruginous pubescence of fine short-rayed appressed stellate 
hairs, glabrescent, the marginal zone early; inflorescences terminal, tripinnately 
paniculate, up to 12.5 em. long, narrow, only slightly wider at base, finely 
tomentose at first with ferruginous stellate hairs and _ papillose-puberulent, 
glabrescent; pedicels 4-7 mm. long; flowers minutely ferruginous-tomentose, 
subcorymbose, up to 5 mm. long at anthesis; sepals lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long, 
acuminate, black~punctate; petals linear-lanceolate, 3.5-5 mm. long, black- 
punctate with lines, papillose-tomentose within along edges and above middle; 
stamens 2.7—4 mm. long; filaments 1.4-2.2 mm. long; anthers erect, lanceolate, 
2-3 mm. long, apiculate and usually bearing a few reddish hairs apically, dorsi- 
fixed one-third or two-fifths above base, with conspicuous acutely triangular 
black-punctate area dorsally, the glands extending into lobes; ovary ovoid, 
attenuate apically into the style, conspicuously hirtellous-tomentose; style 
slender, about 4 mm. long, with a few hairs basally; ovules 5-7, uniseriate, en- 
closed; fruits subglobose, black, drying up to 8 mm. in diam. 
GUATEMALA.—Atta VerApaz: Chicoyonito, alt. 4300 pp., Apr. 1889, John Donnell 
Smith 1537 (GH, US); Coban, alt. 1350 m., June, 1906, H. von Tuerckheim IT 1202 (BM, C, 
G, LL, 8), bl. rot; Coban, alt. 1350 m., Aug. 1906, H. von Tuerckheim IT 1202 (F, type; GH, 
LL, MO, NY, isotypes); near Coban, wet thicket, alt. 1260-1440 m., Mar. 26-Apr. 15, 1939, 
Paul C. Standley 69418 (F, LL), shrub 10 ft., inflorescence dull red; along Rio Carcha, between 
Coban and San Pedro Carcha, wet wooded ravine, alt. about 1360 m., Mar. 26, 27, 1941, 
Paul C. Standley 90082 (F), large shrub; hills between Coban and Tres Cruces, pine-oak forest, 
alt. about 1350 m., Mar. 28, 1941, Paul C. Standley 90261 (F), shrub 70 em. tall, fruit black; 
along Rio Polochic, above Tamahu, damp rocky thicket, alt. about 1200 m., Apr. 10, 1941, 
Paul C. Standley 91811 (F), shrub 2 m. tall; Chamal, bordering Rio Coban, matorrales y bosque 
mixto, alt. 1200 m., May 13, 1963, Antonio Molina R. & Albertina R. Molina 12182 (F), fis. 
rosadas, arbusto 3 m.; Coban, ca. 4250 ft., July 13, 1964, George R. Proctor 25110 (LL), shrub, 
2 m., entire inflorescence red-purple. GuaTEMALA: without locality, 1939, Jose Ignacio Aguilar 
130 (F). SucuiTEPEQUEz: vicinity of Mazatenango, by bank of stream, alt. about 350 m., 
Feb. 20, 1905, William R. Maxon & Robert Hay 3499 (NY), 15 ft. high. Zacapa: oak-pine 
woods along upper reaches of Rio Sitio Nuevo, between Santa Rosalia and first waterfall, at 
base of waterfall, alt. 1200-1500 m., Jan. 9, 1942, Julian A. Steyermark 42210 (F, NY), shrub 
15 ft. tall, leaves subcoriaceous, dull green above, paler dull green beneath, fruit black, shining. 
HONDURAS.—Conrtes: swamp near Agua Azul Ranch, Lake Yojoa, alt. 630 m., Apr. 14, 
1951, Louis O. Williams & Antonio Molina R, 17947 (F), shrub, 2-4 m.; in second growth, 
Lake Yojoa, alt. 630 m., Jan. 1, 1953, Louis O. Williams & Terua P. Williams 18801 (F, US), 
fis. pink, shrub 2 m. Comayaaua: side of ravine near El Achote, hills above the plains of Sigu- 
