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the label of the type (1/724), Smith notes: ‘‘Perhaps a variety of No. 444, but 
the latter is a large tree and begins to flower in May.” 
41. PARATHESIS CRENULATA (Vent.) Hook.f., ex Hemsl., Biol. Centr. Amer. 
Bot. 2: 291. 1882. Fig. 40 and Plate 19. 
Ardisia crenulata Vent., Choix de plantes, 5, pl. 5. 1803. 
Shrub or small tree up to 3 m. high, branchlets slender to stout, closely ap- 
pressed tomentose with very fine stellate ferruginous to pale golden-brown 
hairs, glabrescent; leaves with marginate petioles 0.8-2 cm. long, the petioles 
canaliculate, at first sparsely papillose-puberulent above, fine stellate pubescent 
beneath with very small appressed hairs; leaf blades narrowly oblanceolate, 
rarely oblanceolate-elliptic, 7-17 em. long, 1.5-5.5 em. wide, apex subabruptly 
acuminate, the acumen sometimes cuspidate, narrowed to the acuminate and 
decurrent base, thin, chartaceous, pellucid-punctate, drying brown, slightly 
paler beneath, only the young leaf bizonal on undersurface, often obscurely so, 
the marginal zone paler, the pubescence of very fine small stellate closely ap- 
pressed hairs, glabrescent early and often appearing glabrous, the margin repand 
and rather obscurely crenulate, sometimes appearing entire, the costa elevated 
beneath, nearly plane above, the primary lateral veins fine and evident beneath, 
rather obscure above, finely reticulate-veined ; inflorescences terminal, paniculate, 
tri-pinnately branched at base, pyramidal, 7.5-13 cm. long, papillose-puberulent 
and sometimes thinly tomentose with minute stellate hairs; flowers corymbose, 
the pedicels slender 2.5-5 (6) mm. long; flower buds lanceolate, about 5 mm. 
long before anthesis, the calyx and corolla papillose-puberulent, and usually 
tomentulose with minute stellate hairs; sepals 1-1.5 mm. long, acuminate, rather 
obscurely punctate; petals united at base, narrowly lanceolate, up to 5 mm. long, 
papillose-tomentose within along margins and apically, black-punctate in lines; 
stamens about 3 mm. long; filaments stout, glabrous, about 1.5 mm. long; 
anthers broadly lanceolate, 2.2-2.4 mm. long, dorsifixed one-third above base, 
with conspicuous black-punctate triangular area above attachment and with 
glands extending into lobes, the punctate area often elevated, apex apiculate; 
ovary with occasional stiff hairs at apex, the style with occasional hairs, the 
ovary and style often glabrescent; style about 3.5 mm. long; placenta ovoid- 
ellipsoid, short acicular apically; ovules 6-8, uniseriate, oblong-ellipsoid, erect, 
enclosed; fruits black at maturity, globose, up to 8 mm. in diam. when dry. 
HAITI.—Inperinire: Chardonette, Arrondissement de Jeremie (several km. southwest of 
Beaumont) north of divide at lower edge of the pine forest, off the main road from Les Roseaux 
to Les Cayes, alt. 2000 ft., May 11, 1941, H. H. Bartlett 17326 (US), shrub 3-5 ft., fls. pink. 
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.—Inverinite: without locality, 1802. A. Poiteau s.n. (G); 
without locality, Apr. 20, 1863, L. A. Prenleloup 318 (G, US); without locality, Jan—March, 
1871, C. Wright, C. C. Parry, H. Brummel 236 (F, US); without locality, 1873, Robert Schom- 
burgk s.n. (K, P); in sylvestribus ad Jarabacoa, alt. 550 m., May 24, 1887, H. F. A. Eggers 
2100 (NY, US); Sanchez, Province of Samana, Cafion, Las Canita, Oct. 23, 1909, N. Taylor 
49 (F, NY), shrub 10 ft., fruit black; Prov. Barahona, Paradis, alt. 250 m., 1910, Padre Miguel 
Fuertes 64 (BM, F, G, GH), 454 (A, G, NY, US), bl. carmin.; Jarabacoa, alt. 400 m., July, 
1910, H. von Tuerckheim 3510 (G, NY); Barrancota River, 9 mi. south of Sanchez, in swamp 
at mouth, May 1, 1921, W. L. Abbott 1449 (US); vicinity of San Francisco de Macoris, Pro- 
vincia Pacificador, alt. 400-1000 m., Apr. 5-17, 1922, W. L. Abbott 2032 (US); vicinity of 
Samana, Samana Peninsula, sea level to 200 m. alt., May 20, 1922, W. L. Abbott 2411 (US), 
