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Steyermark 55950 (F, NY), tree 40 feet tall, leaves deep green above, with sulcate transverse 
nerves, dull green below, flowers drooping, petals recurved, rose, anthers pale yellow, filaments 
pale green, calyx pale green, pedicel greenish white; above Canagua, along Rio Canagua be- 
tween Rio Arriba and hacienda of Vicente Garcia, alt. 1615-1925 m., May 7, 1944, Julian A. 
Steyermark 56361 (F), tree 30 ft. tall, fruit depressed-globose, black, shining, previously wine- 
red; entre Los Granates y El Carrizal, climax de selva nublada, June 22, 1954, A. L. Bernardi 
1269 (VEN), arbolito, 5 m. de alto, 10 ent. de diam., de flores rosadas, “‘manteco.”’ INDEFINITE: 
Prov. Truxillo, 1846, N. Funck & L. J. Schlim 801 (G). 
Although Killip & Smith 20421 is in flower bud, the anthers are conspicuously 
black-punctate to base of lobes and the connective at apex is prolonged. Also, 
in this collection the ovary is short villous-tomentulose at apex and at base 
of style. 
P. venezuelana is well-marked by its ovate-lanceolate conspicuously black- 
punctate acuminate anthers, minute indument, ovary puberulent-tomentulose, 
and large tripinnate panicles. The sepals are scarcely 1 mm. long in some col- 
lections, notably in those of Mutis from Colombia. 
55. PARATHESIS vuLGATA Lundell, Wrightia 3:88. 1963. Fig. 53 and Plate 26. 
Shrub or small tree up to 8 m. high, branchlets rather stout, closely appressed 
tomentose with fine sessile stellate hairs; leaves with petioles mostly less than 1 
cm. long, sometimes up to 1.5 cm. long; leaf blades oblanceolate, oblanceolate- 
elliptic or oblong, 7-19 em. long, 3-6.5 em. wide, apex subabruptly acuminate, 
base acuminate and decurrent, membranaceous, subentire or crenulate, at first 
pubescent on lower surface with fine closely appressed stellate hairs, glabrescent 
early, appearing glabrous, densely black-punctate, costa nearly plane above, 
elevated beneath, the primary lateral veins slender; inflorescences axillary, 
long pedunculate, paniculate, the panicles 1- or 2-branched, 6-18 cm. long, 
minutely papillose-puberulent with some longer hairs intermixed; pedicels 
usually 5-8, rarely 10 mm. long; flowers corymbose or subumbellate, densely 
papillose-puberulent, 5-6 mm. long at anthesis; sepals ovate-triangular, 1.4-2 
mm. long, acuminate, red-black punctate; petals narrowly lanceolate, 5-7 mm. 
long, punctate with red-black lines, papillose-tomentose on inner surface along 
edges and above middle, with a papillose ring at base; stamens 3-3.5 ¢hh. long; 
filaments stout, up to 1.5 mm. long, punctate; anthers thick, ovate-lanceolate, 
2-2.5 mm. long, apiculate, with conspicuous black-punctate area dorsally, the 
glands often extending almost to apex, dorsifixed one-third above base ; ovary 
ovoid, short villous apically to villous-tomentose, short villous at base of style; 
style 5-7 mm. long, punctate in lines ; Placenta subglobose, apiculate; ovules 
6-9, erect, uniseriate, enclosed; fruits red, depressed-globose, about 1 em. in 
diam. when ripe. 
GUATEMALA:—Basa Verapaz: mountain side north of divide north of Santa Rosa, alt. 
about 1650 m., Mar. 30, 1939, Paul C. Standley 69897 (F), tree 15 ft., flowers greenish-white. 
CHIMALTENANGO: in deep barranco west of Patzun, alt. 2100 m., Jan. 26, 1947, Louis O. 
Williams & Antonio Molina R. 11849 (F), shrub, 3 m. Curquimuta: upper slopes of Montafia 
Tajuran, in vicinity of El Barriol, alt. 1200-1700 m., Oct. 28, 1939, Julian A. Steyermark 
30793 (F), tree 20-30 ft. tall, common in cloud forest; middle slopes of Montafia Norte to El 
Jutal, on Cerro Brujo southeast of Concepcion de las Minas, mixed forest below cloud forest, 
alt. 1700-2000 m., Nov. 2, 1939, Julian A. Steyermark 31073 (F), berries edible, reddish wine 
color, “sirasil de montafia”; Volean Quezaltepeque, 3-4 miles northeast of Quezaltepeque, 
