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in lines, papillose on outer surface, papillose-tomentose within over entire 
surface; stamens about 3.8 mm. long; anthers erect, oblong-lanceolate, about 2.2 
mm. long, with a triangular black-punctate area dorsally; filaments glabrous, 
about 2 mm. long; ovary sparsely pubescent above middle, the style with 
scattered hairs to or above middle; placenta depressed-globose, apiculate; 
ovules 8 or 9, enclosed, erect, uniseriate. 
VENEZUELA.—Miranba: around Dos Caminos and Los Chorros, alt. 800-1300 m., 
March 14, 1913, H. Pittier 5927 (NY, type; US, isotype). IypEFrNrTE: province de Caracas, 
1842, J. J. Linden 237 (BM, F, G, GH, K, P). 
The large panicles with few-flowered umbels, slender pedicels, rather sparse 
minute tomentum, style sparingly hairy to or above middle, and ovules 8 or 9 
serve to mark P. laxa. The papillose indument, present even on the costa of 
leaves above, gives parts of the stems and inflorescences a farinose appearance. 
The fine stellate silky appressed hairs on undersurface of leaves are conspicuous 
only at first. 
36. PARATHESIS HONDURENSIS Standl., Field Mus. Pub. Bot. 22: 163. 1940. 
Fig. 35. 
Shrub, up to 4 m. high, branchlets rather stout, at first ferruginous-tomentose 
with fine stellate hairs, glabrescent; leaves with petioles 6-20 mm. long; leaf 
blades lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, 9-17 cm. long, 3.5-6.5 cm. wide, apex 
subabruptly acuminate, base cuneate and decurrent, subcoriaceous, the margin 
undulate-dentate, upper surface rugulose, sparsely stellate-pubescent at first 
especially along midvein, the pubescence of lower surface bizonal, rather loosely 
stellate-pubescent in costal zone, the hairs appressed and thinner in marginal 
zone, glabrescent, the costa stout and elevated beneath, nearly plane above, 
the primary lateral veins slender but conspicuous beneath, slightly impressed 
above; inflorescences terminal, narrowly pyramidal, tripinnately paniculate, 
up to 12.5 mm. long, finely ferruginous-tomentose at first with stellate hairs, 
glabrescent and papillose-puberulent with age; flowers subcorymbose, finely 
tomentose with ferruginous stellate hairs, about 5 mm. long at anthesis; pedicels 
4-7 mm. long; sepals 1.2-1.8 mm. long, acuminate, black-punctate; petals linear- 
lanceolate, up to 6 mm. long, papillose-tomentose within except at base, black- 
punctate in lines; stamens 3.5-4 mm. long; filaments stout, about 1.5 mm. long; 
anthers erect, lanceolate, attenuate, apiculate, 2.5-3.4 mm. long, dorsifixed 
one-third above base, with large black-punctate area dorsally, the glands ex- 
tending into lobes; ovary ovoid, attenuate into style, rather sparsely pilose 
apically; ovules 4-8, uniseriate, enclosed; fruits globose, drying 6-7 mm. in 
diam., with a few persistent hairs at apex. 
HONDURAS.—Morazan: Rio Yeguare, alt. 800 m., Apr. 1944, Juvenal Valerio Rodriguez 
2114 (F); vicinity of El Zamorano, pine-oak forest, alt. 780-900 m., Nov. 26, 1946—Jan. 9, 
1947, Paul C. Standley 198 (F), shrub 3 m., fruit black, juicy, edible, ‘‘sarcil’’; Vegas del Rio 
Jalan, cerca de Pueblo Nuevo a 5 Kms. de Guaimaca, alt. 800 m., May 12, 1950, Antonio 
Molina R. 2813 (F, GH, US), fls. rosadas, arbusto 2 m., “zarcil.”’ TeGuciGaLpa: Tegucigalpa, 
Mont. de la Flor, pine and oak region near river, alt. 3200 ft., Dec. 1937, Christine von Hagen 
& Wolfgang von Hagen 1240 (F, type; NY, isotype), shrub 5 ft. high, fruit edible, “uva.” 
Yoro: matorrales de Quebrada Olotillo, 15 kms. de Yoro, alt. 1100 m., May 8, 1956, Antonio 
Molina R. 6830 (F), arbol 5 m. 
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