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pedicels 4-8 mm. long; flowers corymbose, 5 mm. long at anthesis, finely to- 
mentulose; sepals about 1.5 mm. long, acuminate, black-punctate; petals 
linear-lanceolate, 5-6 mm. long, black-punctate in lines, papillose-tomentose on 
inner surface except for area above base; stamens 3-3.4 mm. long; filaments 
glabrous, up to 2 mm. long, punctate; anthers erect, ovate-lanceolate, up to 2.7 
mm. long, dorsifixed one-third above base, black-punctate dorsally, the glands 
extending into lobes; ovary ovoid, black-punctate, glabrous below, short villous- 
pubescent apically and at base of style, glabrescent; style about 5 mm. long; 
placenta obovoid, acicular-apiculate; ovules 8, obovoid or ellipsoid, uniseriate, 
enclosed. 
GUATEMALA.—QuicuE: 1942, Jose Ignacio Aguilar 793 (F, type). 
This species is unlike any other in its narrow crenulate-denticulate leaves up 
to a foot in length. The material is inadequate, but the persistent closely ap- 
pressed fine rusty stellate indument of branchlets, ovary short villous apically 
and at base of style, and the long lax remotely branched axillary inflorescences 
appear to distinguish it. 
54. PARATHESIS VENEZUELANA Mez, Pflanzenreich IV. 236: 179. 1902. Fig. 52. 
Tree, branchlets rather stout, minutely ferruginous-tomentulose apically 
with closely appressed indument, glabrescent; leaves with slender petioles 1—2.5 
em. long; leaf blades elliptic, oblanceolate-oblong or obovate-elliptic, up to 20 
em. long, 9 em. wide, apex subabruptly acuminate, base acute or subacuminate, 
submembranaceous, entire or irregularly sinuate, at first sparingly pubescent 
on lower surface with small closely appressed stellate hairs, glabrescent, costa 
elevated and prominent beneath, nearly plane above, primary lateral veins 
slender, numerous, ascending almost at right angles; inflorescences axillary, 
multiflowered, large, lax, long pedunculate, broadly paniculate, the panicles 
10-20 em. long, 2- or 3-branched, minutely puberulent; pedicels slender, 8-15 
mm. long, minutely puberulent; flowers subcorymbose, puberulent-tomentulose, 
6-7 mm. long at anthesis; sepals 1-1.4 mm. long, acuminate, black-punctate; 
petals lanceolate, up to 7 mm. long, papillose-tomentose on inner surface to 
base, sometimes rather sparsely at base and appearing glabrous, black-punctate 
in lines; stamens 3-4 mm. long; filaments up to 2 mm. long, rather stout, glab- 
rous, punctate; anthers ovate-lanceolate, up to 2.5 mm. long, apex acuminate, 
with conspicuous black-punctate dorsal area, the glands extending to base of 
lobes, dorsifixed about one-third above base; ovary ovoid, ridged, tapering into 
style, puberulent-tomentulose almost to base, short villous-tomentose apically 
and at base of style; style up to 5.5 mm. long, with a few hairs to middle; placenta 
depressed-globose, minutely apiculate; ovules 8, small, uniseriate, enclosed; 
fruit depressed-globose, black, shining, up to 1 cm. in diam. when ripe. 
COLOMBIA.—Inperinite: without locality or date, Jose Celestine Mutis 180 (US), 3445 
(US), 4972 (US); Mountain of Ocafia, June, 1845, Wm. Purdie s.n. (GH, K); Dept. Norte de 
Santander, Loso and vicinity (north of Toledo), woods along stream, alt. 2200-2400 m., Mar. 
6-7, 1927, E. P. Killip & Albert C. Smith 20421 (A, GH, NY, US), tree 15-20 ft., with droop- 
ing branches, calyx tube white, corolla rich pink. 
VENEZUELA.—Menrtpa: hautes Andes de Truxillo et de Merida, alt. 14,000—14,500 pieds., 
1842, J. J. Linden 282 (K, lectotype; BM, F, G, LL, P, isotypes); along Rio Albarregas, Monte 
Serpa, 5-10 kilometers northeast of Merida, alt. 1675-2135 m., Apr. 18, 1944, Julian A. 
