LUNDELL: THE GENUS PARATHESIS 121 
El General, bank of river, alt. 640 m., Jan. 1939, Alexander F. Skutch 3857 (A, MO, NY, S, 
US), shrub 5 m., fls. pinkish; basin of El] General, bank of river, alt. 675-900 m., Feb. 1940, 
Alexander F. Skutch 4696 (F, MO, US), shrub 4 m., fls. pinkish. INDEFrNrTE: in Monte Irasu, 
Jan. 1947, A. S. Oersted 37 (C, type; LL, isotype). 
PANAMA.—Panama: Rio Tecumen, moist forest, Jan. 3, 1924, Paul C. Standley 29349 
(US), 29365 (US), shrub, 8-10 ft., fruit black-purple; near Jenine along Pan-Am Highway, 
by stream, Rio Caneta, Sept. 24, 1961, J. A. Duke 3880 (LL), shrub, fruits pinkish, turning 
black. INDEFINITE: B. C. Seemann 1611 (BM). 
COLOMBIA.—Ez Va.tte: Rio de la Teta, upper Cauca Valley, alt. 1000-1300 m., F. C. 
Lehmann 5800 (F); Cauca Valley, Quebrada Nueva to Cuchilla, East of Zarzal, alt. 1100— 
1300 m., July 21-22, 1922, Francis W. Pennell, Ellsworth P. Killip & Tracy E, Hazen 8501 
(GH, NY. US), tree, fruit black; El Negro, Cordillera Central, alt. 1400 m., Mar. 1939, E. 
Dryander 2326 (US), 2341 (US), 2348 (US), tree 4-5 m., fls. rose, yellow within, fruit blue. 
INDEFINITE: Flora Neogranadina-Caucana, La Paila, April 11, 1853, J. F. Holton 615 (G); 
prov. de Cauca, 1853, J. J. Triana 4222 (BM), fl. in July. 
VENEZUELA.—InNpeFInITE: Montafia de Loco, near La Victoria, May, 1898, Alfredo 
Jahn 210 (LL, US). 
The Molina collection from Honduras and the two Standley collections from 
Rio Tecumen in Panama are atypical, and possibly not of this species. 
In P. fusca the attenuate-acuminate sepals, usually cuspidate and slightly 
recurved apically after anthesis, are distinctive. The flowers are punctate, but 
usually orange-punctate, especially the sepals. The rays of the stellate hairs on 
the undersurface of leaf are suberect or sometimes erect in costal zone, rarely 
appressed. 
In some South American collections of P. fusca there are slightly larger sta- 
mens, about 0.5 mm. longer, and the sepals are black-punctate rather than 
orange-punctate as in Central American collections. In Jahn 210 (US) from 
Venezuela, there are a few scattered hairs at apex of ovary and base of style, 
but in all other collections the ovary and style are glabrous. 
Oersted 37 A, collected ‘In monte Pantasmo,” which was cited by Mez (l.c.) 
in his description of P. fusca, has base of style and apex of ovary with scattered 
stiff erect hairs as described for P. Rothschuhiana Mez, and shown by Mez in 
his sketch of the flower of the type (LL, type photo). P. Rothschuhiana is very 
close to P. fusca, but in the absence of the type, the question of its recognition 
remains unsolved. As represented by Oersted 37A (C, LL), and Molina 2449 
(F), the hairs of style and apex of ovary, shorter pedicels, smaller sepals, and 
somewhat finer silkier appressed stellate pubescence of undersurface of leaves 
serve to distinguish P. Rothschuhiana from P. fusca. 
44. PARATHESIS OBLANCEOLATA Lundell, Wrightia 3: 67. 1963. Fig. 43. 
Shrub, branchlets slender and short to rather stout and elongated, ferruginous- 
tomentose with fine sessile subappressed stellate hairs; leaves with rather 
slender petioles 5-15 mm. long; leaf blades oblanceolate, 7.520 cm. long, 2-5.5 
cm. wide, apex caudate-acuminate or acuminate, base acuminate and decurrent, 
entire, or inconspicuously crenulate, chartaceous, punctate with small black 
glands, at first uniformly pubescent beneath with fine sessile stellate ferruginous 
hairs, the rays spreading and subappressed, glabrescent, midvein prominent 
beneath, slightly impressed above, primary lateral veins elevated beneath, 
obscurely impressed above; inflorescences terminal, tripinnately paniculate, 
the branches slender, sparsely pubescent, the stellate spreading hairs with 
