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BRITISH HONDURAS.—BeEtizE: Manatee River, Cornhouse Creek, Jan. 31, 1931, 
H. H. Bartlett 11271 (F, MICH, MO), tree, fls. pink, berries red; Prospecto-Maskall road, in 
high ridge, Nov. 9, 1933, Percy H. Gentle 874 (A, F, MICH, MO, NY, UC, US); Belize-Cayo 
Road, Colonel English Pine Ridge, open pine ridge, May 7, 1958, Percy H. Gentle 9755 (BM, 
G, LL), small tree. Corozau: 1931-1932, Percy H. Gentle 195 (LL, MICH, US), 8 ft. high; 
Xiabe, in acahual, Aug. 21, 1933, C. L. Lundell 4909 (F, LL, MICH, MO, NY, US), treelet, 1 
in. diam. Ex Cayo: El Cayo, cut-over cohune ridge, Feb. 19, 1931, H. H. Bartlett 11573 
(F, LL, MICH), shrub 5 ft., fls. pink, frt. dark red; Mountain Pine Ridge, San Agustin, in 
marginal forest along streams, July-Aug. 1936, C. L. Lundell 6739 (MICH), shrub, 1.5 m., 
corolla reddish-pink; Belize-Cayo Road, 38 miles section, broken ridge, Oct. 4, 1957, Percy H. 
Gentle 9376 (LL), tree, flowers pink. ORANGE WALK: vicinity of Tower Hill, 1928, J. S. Karling 
29 (F, type of P. obovata; G, US, isotypes); Honey Camp, Sept.—Oct. 1928, C. L. Lundell 32 
(F, US), 33 (F), 63 (F), 68 (F); Sept. 1929, C. L. Lundell 479 (BM, F, NY, US). Stann CrEEK: 
Stann Creek Railway, in swampy places and along riverbanks, alt. 60 ft., Sept. 30, 1929, 
W. A. Schipp 415 (A, BM, F, G, GH, MICH, MO, NY, UC), small tree, 5 in. diam., 25 ft. 
high, flowers pink, stamens yellow; Cow Creek, Alta Visa, creekside, high ridge, Aug. 28, 1953. 
Percy H. Gentle 8017 (BM, G, LL), small tree. Totepo: Jenkins Creek, edge of hammock in 
pine ridge, Aug. 30, 1942, Percy H. Gentle 4098 (A, F, LL, MICH, MO, NY, US). 
I have examined isotypes of Ardisia cubana through the courtesy of author- 
ities at Geneva and Paris. The type of P. corymbosa Hemsl. (Juergensen 611, K) 
has the inflorescence with terminal leafy bud, but the isotype at the British 
Museum is typical of the species having pyramidal terminal panicles. This 
condition is found also in Contreras 233 (LL.) 
30. PARATHESIS SUBCORIACEA Lundell, Wrightia 2:73. 1963. Fig. 30 and Plate 18. 
Small tree, 3-4 m. high, the twigs rather stout, minutely lepidote, drying 
brownish; leaves long petiolate, the petioles up to 2 cm. long, obscurely and 
minutely lepidote beneath, canaliculate; leaf blades lanceolate, 8-15 cm. long, 
2.5-5 em. wide, apex acuminate, the acumen obtusish, base cuneate and de- 
current on petiole, subcoriaceous, paler beneath, obscurely pellucid-punctate 
with orange glands, essentially entire, the young leaves with minute closely 
appressed stellate hairs, glabrescent early, mature leaves entirely glabrous, costa 
elevated beneath, the lateral veins fine but evident on lower surface, obscure 
above; inflorescences terminal or axillary, subequaling the leaves, obscurely 
and sparingly lepidote-papillose, congested; flowers minutely papillose in few- 
flowered umbels, the umbels congested; pedicels slender, 2.5-3 mm. long, 
minutely papillose; flowers at anthesis about 3 mm. long, the calyx and corolla 
black-punctate in lines; sepals minute, 0.8-1 mm. long, acuminate; petals nar- 
rowly triangular, 3 mm. long, short papillose-tomentose within except at base; 
stamens 2 mm. long, filaments slender, glabrous, epunctate, about 1 mm. long; 
anthers erect, epunctate, dorsifixed basally, lanceolate, acutish, 1.2-1.4 mm. 
long; ovary glabrous; style about 3 mm. long, glabrous; placenta depressed- 
ovoid, apiculate, ovules 10-12, very small, uniseriate. 
MEXICO.—Cutaras: Tres Cruces, Sierra Madre, growing amongst trees, alt. 2600 m., 
Feb, 24, 1945, Eizi Matuda 5036 (F, LL), tree, 5-6 m. high; Haciendita, near Escuintla, in 
advanced forest, alt. 1950 m., June 23, 1945, Eizi Matuda 5985 (LL, type), small tree, 3-4 m. 
high; Mt. Pashtal, in cloud forest, alt. 2700 m., Apr. 12, 1948, Eizi Matuda 17679 (F), a tree 
6-7 m. tall, ‘‘wva.”’ 
Inflorescences are either terminal or axillary. Noteworthy are the congested 
few-flowered umbels of very small flowers, small epunctate anthers, slender 
