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LUNDELL: THE GENUS PARATHESIS 155 
appressed stellate hairs, glabrescent early, pellucid-punctate, midvein slender, 
elevated beneath, nearly plane above, primary lateral veins slender ; inflores- 
cences axillary, long-pedunculate, 5-17 em. long, lax, 1- or 2-branched, minutely 
tomentulose with appressed hairs; pedicels slender, 7-11 mm. long, puberulent ; 
flowers umbellate or subcorymbose, 5- or 6-parted, orange-punctate, up to 7 
mm. long at anthesis, the calyx puberulent, corolla minutely tomentulose; 
sepals up to 1.5 mm. long, obtusish; petals linear-lanceolate, up to 8 mm. long, 
orange-punctate in lines, papillose-tomentose within except at base, with ring 
of minute glands at base; stamens 3-4 mm. long; filaments stout, glabrous, 
1.5-2 mm. long, eglandular; anthers erect, dorsifixed two-fifths above base, 
ovate-lanceolate, 2.2-2.7 mm. long, sometimes with a few short red hairs dorsally 
at apex, grooved and rather sparingly orange-punctate dorsally, the glands 
extending into lobes; ovary ovoid, glabrous except for a few scattered hairs 
apically and at base of style; style 5-6 mm. long; placenta subglobose, apiculate; 
ovules 7-10, ellipsoid, exposed apically, uniseriate. 
EL SALVADOR.—CuataTENANco: cloud forest, east slope of Los Esesmiles, alt. ca. 2430 
m., Mar. 15, 1942, John M. Tucker 1058 (C, G, LL, NY, UC, US), shrub ca. 2.5 m. tall, corolla 
white, tinged with pink, red within at base; Los Esesmiles, highland area east of La Palma, 
fairly common at about 7500 ft. in association with Rapanea in pine forest, May 6-7, 1959, 
Paul H. Allen & Mario Lewy van Severen 7310 (LL, type; F, NY, isotypes), tree, to about 20 
ft.; flowers pink. 
A cloud forest endemic known only from the type locality, P. aurantiaca is 
notable for having all parts orange-punctate, never black-punctate. The flowers 
are 5- or 6-parted. 
59. PARATHESIS TARTAREA Lundell, Wrightia 3: 86, fig. 54. 1963. Fig. 57. 
Tree, up to 16 m. high, branchlets thick, scaly, with epidermis peeling trans- 
versely and irregularly, the terminal buds and apical internodes densely ferru- 
ginous-tomentose with minute appressed sessile stellate hairs; leaves with rather 
stout marginate petioles 2-5 cm. long; leaf blades lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 
10-20 em. long, 2.5—-7 cm. wide, apex acuminate or subabruptly acuminate, base 
rounded and acutish or acute, coriaceous, paler beneath, denticulate, the teeth 
usually conspicuous but small, rarely obscure, glabrescent above, persistently and 
minutely pubescent on lower surface with very fine small closely appressed 
stellate hairs, the midvein prominent beneath, slightly impressed above, the 
primary lateral veins very slender; inflorescences axillary, paniculate, 5-15 cm. 
long, 1- or 2-branched, the peduncle and branches thick and angled, minutely 
ferruginous-tomentose with minute appressed hairs; pedicels rather stout, 
drying wrinkled, 5-10 mm. long; flowers corymbose, minutely ferruginous- 
tomentose, 5-6 mm. long at anthesis; sepals thick, triangular, 1.2-1.6 mm. 
long, acute, inconspicuously and sparsely orange-punctate; petals thick, linear- 
lanceolate, about 6 mm. long, papillose-tomentose over entire inner surface, 
inconspicuously orange-punctate in lines; stamens up to 3.75 mm. long; filaments 
united at base, 1.4-2.4 mm. long, orange-punctate; anthers erect, lanceolate, up 
to 2.5 mm. long, inconspicuously punctate with small pale orange-colored glands; 
ovary ovoid, glabrous except for minute tomentum apically and at base of 
style, tapering into the thick style; style 5-6 mm. long; placenta obovoid, 
apiculate; ovules 9, uniseriate, enclosed; fruits subglobose. 
