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punctate in lines, papillose-tomentose within at apex and along margins; stamens 
2.5-3 mm. long; filaments stout, up to 1.2 mm. long, glabrous; anthers erect, 
ovate-triangular, up to 2.4 mm. long, acute, dorsifixed about one-third above 
base, conspicuously punctate dorsally with large orange glands; ovary ovoid, 
with scattered hairs apically, otherwise glabrous; style 3.5-3.75 mm. long, 
slender; placenta depressed-globose; ovules 6-9, erect, uniseriate, enclosed ; 
fruits globose, drying about 8 mm. in diam. 
VENEZUELA.—Menrta: Bolivia, Cerca de La Azulita, about 500 m., May, 1963, Luzs 
Ruiz Teran 1548 (LL, type; LL, isotype). 
A remarkably distinct species, notable for having leaves and flowers pellucid- 
punctate. The small broad sepals, and anthers punctate dorsally with large 
orange glands are distinctive features among the South American species with 
terminal inflorescences. 
In the original description, Bolivia was erroneously given as the country of 
origin. 
33. ParaTHEesIS ROTHSCHUHIANA Mez, Pflanzenreich IV. 236: 176. 1902. 
Ardisia fusca Oerst. var. glabrata Oerst., Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. 128. 1861. 
Arborescent shrub, 2 m. high; branchlets stout, ferruginous-tomentose; 
leaves with short narrowly winged petioles 3-15 mm. long, the petioles ferru- 
ginous-tomentose on undersurface, canaliculate; leaf blades elliptic, 7.5-13.5 
em. long, 3.2-5.5 em. wide, acuminate at apex and base, the base decurrent on 
petiole, chartaceous, rather sparingly black-punctate with small glands, paler 
beneath, at first pubescent on lower surface with fine stellate sessile appressed 
hairs, obscurely bizonal, glabrescent, the margin minutely crenulate; inflores- 
cences terminal, paniculate, narrowly pyramidal, up to 15 cm. long, minutely 
and rather sparingly ferruginous-tomentose; pedicels very short, 1-3 mm. long, 
papillose-puberulent ; flowers subcorymbose, crowded, black-punctate, papillose- 
puberulent and minutely ferruginous-tomentose in bud with stellate hairs; 
flower buds before anthesis ovoid, 3-3.5 mm. long; sepals triangular, about | mm. 
long, acute; petals united at base, narrowly lanceolate-triangular, about 4 mm. 
long, acute, papillose-tomentose within along margins and apically above middle; 
stamens small, about 2.4 mm. long; filaments glabrous, thick, about 1 mm. 
long; anthers erect, ovate, about 1.8 mm. long, dorsifixed about one-third above 
base, the lobes spreading, with a black-punctate area above attachment and 
extending down into lobes, dehiscent by small apical pores; ovary sparingly 
papillose at apex, the apex and base of style with a few scattered erect hairs, 
otherwise glabrous; style slender, 3 mm. long; placenta subglobose, ovules 6, 
erect, uniseriate, enclosed. 
NICARAGUA.—Maragcatpa: an der Grenze der Berg-und Savannenregion, 550 m. u. 
M., E. Rothschuh 531 (type at Berlin not seen; LL, type photo), bluht im Marz. Zeuaya: 
guamil entre El Centro y La Cruz, Rio Grande, alt. 0.15 m., April 26, 1949, Antonio Molina 
R. 2449 (F), arbusto 2 m. INDEFINITE: in monte Pantasmo, alt. 3000-4000 ft., Jan. 1848, 
A. S. Ocrsted 37 A (C, type of Ardisia fusca var. glabrata; LL, isotype). 
Although I have not seen the type of P. Rothschuhiana, the Molina collection 
from Nicaragua agrees very closely with the original description and the type 
photograph. The species has very short pedicels, small flowers with stamens less 
