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uate to the apex, punctate; filaments stout, about 1.3 mm. long; anthers ovate- 
lanceolate, 2.2 mm. long, apiculate, conspicuously black-punctate; ovary with 
a few hairs at apex, glabrous otherwise; style 3.5 mm. long, glabrous. 
BRITISH HONDURAS.—Et Cayo: Tea Kettle, May 12, 1931, H. H. Bartlett 13140 
(LL, type; MICH, US, isotypes), small tree, fis. dull pink. 
43. PARATHESIS FUSCA (Oerst.) Mez, Pflanzenreich IV. 236: 175. 1902. 
Fig. 42 and Plate 20. 
Ardisia fusca Oerst., Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. 127, ¢. 2. 1861. 
Tinus fusca (Oerst.) O. Ktze, Rev. Gen. 2: 974. 1891. 
Shrub, branchlets rather stout, densely appressed ferruginous-tomentose; 
leaves with slender petioles, the petioles 5-15 mm. long, canaliculate, tomentose 
on undersurface; leaf blades elliptic, oblong-elliptic or rarely obovate-elliptic, 
6-17 em. long, 2.5-6 em. wide, acuminate and decurrent on petiole at base, 
apex subabruptly acuminate, thinly chartaceous, obscurely bizonal, pubescent 
on undersurface with appressed or subappressed sessile stellate hairs, the mar- 
ginal zone glabrescent, sparingly papillose above at first along costa, rarely 
sparingly pubescent, the margin finely crenulate, costa elevated and stellate 
pubescent beneath, plane above, the lateral veins slender but conspicuous and 
reticulate on undersurface, rather sparsely punctate; inflorescences terminal, 
paniculate, usually up to 15 em. long, rarely as much as 22 em. long, ferruginous- 
pubescent or tomentose with short sessile stellate hairs, and papillose; flowers 
corymbose or subracemose-corymbose, the calyx and corolla ferruginous- 
tomentose with short sessile stellate rather fine bristly hairs, and papillose; 
pedicels slender, 2.5-6 mm. long; flower buds before anthesis ovoid, 4-5 mm. 
long or sometimes slightly longer; sepals narrowly triangular, 1-1.6 mm. long, 
attenuate-acuminate, the apex usually cuspidate and often recurved after anthe- 
sis, usually orange-punctate, but sometimes black-punctate; petals linear- 
lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long or sometimes slightly longer, acuminate, united at 
base, papillose-tomentose within along margins and above middle; stamens 
2.5-3.5 mm. long; filaments stout, glabrous, about 1.4 mm. long; anthers erect, 
lanceolate, 1.8-2 mm. long, dorsifixed one-third above base, with conspicuous 
oblong-triangular punctate area above attachment and with glands extending 
down into lobes, apex obtuse or rounded and minutely apiculate; ovary and 
style glabrous; style slender, 3.5-4.5 mm. long; placenta broadly obovoid, the 
ovules 6-8, erect, uniseriate, enclosed. 
HONDURAS.—Yoro: pinares del campo de aviacion de Yoro, alt. 800 m., May 9, 1956, 
Antonio Molina R. 6865 (F), fis. blancas, planta 0.5 m. 
NICARAGUA.—CuonvTatgs: vicinity of La Libertad, moist thicket along river, about 
500-700 m., May 29-June 1, 1947, Paul C. Standley 8996 (F, LL), shrub 3 m., fls. pink. ZEL- 
Aya: area de Ocotal, Rio Grande, Apr. 23, 1949, alt. 0-15 m., Antonio Molina R. 2321 (F), 
fis. rosadas, arbusto 1 m.; Montaiia Esquipulas, alt. 130 m., Nov. 22, 1951, Paul J. Shank & 
Antonio Molina R. 4704 (F), arbusto 1-2 m. 
COSTA RICA.—Carraco: Turrialba, alt. 200 m., June 5, 1891, Adolfo Tonduz 4080 (US); 
Turrialba, Apr. 27, 1903, O. F. Cook & C. B. Doyle 377 (LL, US), flowers pink, yellow center; 
Rio Turrialba, alt. 1600 pp., Mar. 1894, John Donnell Smith 4883 (GH, US); flood plains of 
Rio Reventazon, near Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, 3 km. SE of Turrialba, 
in tropical rain forest, alt. 500-600 m., June 20, 1949, Richard W. Holm ¢& Hugh H. Iitis 20 
(F), tree 2.5 m. high, petals whitish, buds and pedicels reddish-purple. San Jose: vicinity of 
