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hairs, the branches rather sparingly so and papillose-puberulent; the flowers 
corymbose or subcorymbose; pedicels papillose-puberulent, 3-5 mm. long; 
flower buds before anthesis lanceolate, about 5 mm. long; sepals minute, ovate- 
triangular, acute, 0.8-1 mm. long, black-punctate, papillose-puberulent; petals 
densely papillose-puberulent, black-punctate in lines, lanceolate, up to 5.5 mm. 
long, papillose-tomentose within apically and along margins; stamens 3 mm. 
long; filaments stout, about 1.8 mm. long, glabrous; anthers erect, lanceolate- 
elliptic, about 2 mm. long, apex obtuse and apiculate, dorsifixed one-third above 
base, with large triangular black-punctate area above attachment, with glands 
extending down into lobes; ovary pubescent apically; style with scattered hairs 
to middle, about 3.5 mm. long; placenta columnar; ovules 6-9, asymmetrically 
oblong-obovoid, uniseriate, enclosed; fruits depressed-globose, up to 7 mm. in 
diam. when dry, shallowly costate. 
COLOMBIA.—Maepatena: Santa Marta, 1846-1852, L. J. Schlim 707 (P); Santa Marta, 
mountain forest near Valparaiso, elev. 3000—4500 ft., 1898-1899, Herbert H. Smith 1725 (NY, 
type), a small tree, flowers March to May; Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Minca, alt. 1000- 
1500 m., F. C. Lehmann 7346 (F); western slope of Cordillera de Santa Marta, around San 
Andres de la Sierra, alt. 1100-1300 m., June 1-6, 1906, H. Pittier 1646 (NY, US); lower slopes 
of Mount San Lorenzo, near Santa Marta, alt. 1300 m., 1932, William Seifriz 64 (LL, US); 
between Pueblo Viejo and San Miguel, alt. 900-1700 m., July, 1932, William Seifriz 543 (US); 
Sierra de Santa Marta, San Antonio, heavy forest in foothills, alt. 3000 ft., June 15, 1939, 
J. Hanbury-Tracy 450 (K, US), shrub, 8-10 ft. high, flowers lilac; Sierra Nevada de Santa 
Marta, headwaters of Rio Frio, Hacienda San Jose, Quebrada San Jose, alt. 1110 m., June 21, 
1944, H. S. Kernan 136 (NY, US), 16 ft. shrub in understory, ‘‘fruta de pava’’; Santa Marta, 
Wm. Purdie s.n. (GH, K). 
P. reticulata is perhaps near P. emarginata but differs in its smaller obtuse 
and apiculate anthers, larger areolate leaves, ovary pubescent rather sparingly 
at apex, and in having oblong-obovoid ovules almost twice as large. 
40. PARATHESIS RETICULATA Var. SINUATA Lundell, Wrightia 2:72. 1963. Fig. 39. 
Arborescent shrub up to 7 m. high, branchlets finely ferruginous-tomentose 
with appressed stellate hairs; leaves with petioles up to 2 cm. long; leaf blades 
with sinuate margins, bizonal beneath, glabrescent, reticulate-veined ; inflores- 
cences terminal, finely and persistently ferruginous-tomentose with stellate 
appressed hairs; flowers at anthesis up to 5.5 mm. long, finely tomentose and 
papillose-puberulent; sepals 1-1.5 mm. long, acuminate; stamens up to 3.5 mm. 
long; anthers erect, narrowly triangular, tapering to the obtuse and apiculate 
apex; ovary rather sparingly pubescent at apex. 
COLOMBIA.—Macpatena: Santa Marta, without locality, alt. 3000 ft., 1853, L. J. 
Schlim 707 (F, G); Santa Marta, alt. 1500 ft., May, 1898-1901, Herbert H. Smith 444 (A, 
GH, MO, S, UC); Santa Marta, on the Donamo Road, occasional on banks of streams in 
forest, below 1200 ft., April 8, 1898-1899, Herbert H. Smith 1724 (NY, type; A, BM, F, G, 
GH, LL, MO, 8, US, isotypes). Inperinrre: Comisaria Goajira, 10 km. south of Carraipia, 
along stream through forest, alt. 350 m., July 4, 1944, Oscar Haught 4236 (NY, UC), large 
shrub, 3 m. high, smooth leaves, showy inflorescences of red flowers with conspicuous yellow 
anthers. 
The collection, Schlim 707, is a mixture of P. reticulata var. sinuata and P. 
reticulata Lundell (P). Smith 444 is a mixture with P. emarginata Lundell. On 
