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tomentulose, up to 5 mm. long at anthesis; sepals triangular, up to 1.5 mm. 
long, acuminate, densely punctate, papillose-puberulent; petals lanceolate, 
5 mm. long, papillose-tomentose over entire inner surface, black-punctate in 
lines; stamens 2.75-3 mm. long; filaments glabrous, sometimes black-punctate, 
1.5-2 mm. long; anthers erect, slender, lanceolate, about 2 mm. long, dorsifixed 
one-third above base, inconspicuously punctate dorsally with minute orange- 
black glands, these usually dispersed, occasionally in lobes; ovary ovoid, tomen- 
tose over entire surface to base, the hairs above and at base of style multi- 
branched or simple; style about 4.5 mm. long; placenta subglobose, apiculate ; 
ovules small, 8-10, uniseriate, enclosed; fruits subglobose, up to | cm. in diam. 
when ripe. 
MEXICO.—Cutapas: near Chicharras, alt. 6000 ft., Feb. 12-15, 1896, E. W. Nelson 3800 
(GH, US); Barranca near Finca Irlanda, damp forests, June, 1914, C. A. Purpus 7334 (UC, 
type; BM, F, GH, LL, MO, NY, US, isotypes); Boqueron, near Motozintla, in advanced forest, 
alt. 2540 m., May 3, 1945, Eizi Matuda 5355 (LL), 15355 (F), a tree, 7-8 m. high; Carelas, 
near Motozintla, alt. 2176 m., April, 1945, EHizi Matuda 5520 (LL), a shrub, 3-5 m. high; 
same locality and date, Matuda 15520 (F), a tree, 6-7 m. 
GUATEMALA.—CurmaLTenanco: San Martin, Oct. 9, 1938, J. R. Johnston 1353 (F); 
above Las Calderas in damp forest, alt. 1800-2100 m., Dec. 15, 1938, Paul C. Standley 60058 
(F, LL), shrub or tree, 10-20 ft.; slopes of Volcan de Acatenango, above Las Calderas, in dense 
wet Chiranthodendron forest, alt. 2400-2700 m., Jan. 3, 1939, Paul C. Standley 61972 (F), 
shrub, 15 ft., fruit edible, “Uichui’”?; Matorrales del barranco cerca de San Bartolo, alt. 1700 
m., May 18, 1963, Antonio Molina R. & Albertina R. Molina 12435 (F), fls. rosadas, arbol 
5 m. San Marcos: between Todos Santos and Finca El Porvenir, lower to middle slopes of 
Volean Tajumulco, alt. 1300-3000 m., March 1, 1940, Julian A. Steyermark 37023 (F), shrub, 
20-25 ft. tall, petals pink, rose or white. Sanra Rosa: Zamorora, alt. 5500 pp., April, 1893, 
Enrico Teophilo Heyde & Ernesto Lux 4535A (F, GH, US). 
P. reflexa is notable for its floccose indument consisting of sordid dendroid 
hairs. 
50. PARATHESIS CALOPHYLLA Donn. Sm., Bot. Gaz. 18: 205. 1893. 
Fig. 48 and Plate 24. 
Tree, up to 15 m. high; branchlets stout, densely and persistently ferruginous- 
tomentose, the hairs multibranched to base; leaves with rather stout to slender 
petioles up to 3.5 cm. long; leaf blades lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, up to 
18 cm. long, 7 em. wide, apex acuminate or subabruptly acuminate, base acute 
or acuminate, subcoriaceous, entire or obscurely crenulate, glabrous above 
except along midvein and petiole, shiny, persistently ferruginous-tomentose 
beneath with fine matted multibranched hairs, costa stout and elevated beneath, 
impressed above, the primary lateral veins slightly impressed above, the surface 
sometimes slightly bullate; inflorescences axillary, the terminal leaves usually 
reduced, ferruginous-tomentose with multibranched hairs, paniculate, 1- or 
2-branched, 6-15 em. long, multiflowered; pedicels 3-6 mm. long; flowers um- 
bellate or subcorymbose, tomentose, 6-7 mm. long at anthesis; sepals triangular, 
2-2.5 mm. long, acuminate, orange-punctate in lines; petals linear-lanceolate, 
up to 7 mm. long, papillose-tomentulose on outer surface and on inner surface 
except at base, punctate in lines; stamens 3.75-5.5 mm. long; filaments slender, 
2.54 mm. long, glabrous, punctate; anthers narrowly lanceolate, 2-3 mm. long, 
apiculate, dorsifixed one-fourth above base, with several small glands dorsally 
