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1.5-2.5 em. long; leaf blades oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 12-25 em. long, 
3.5-7 em. wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate and decurrent, thinly chartaceous, 
finely crenulate to subentire, thinly stellate pubescent beneath or glabrous, 
papillose above at base and along petiole, costa slightly impressed above, prom- 
inent beneath, the primary lateral veins up to 25 on each side, slender; inflores- 
cences axillary, paniculate, up to 20 em. long, angled, short pedunculate, di- 
varicately 2- or 3-branched, compact, the secondary branches reduced, the 
indument minute, very closely appressed ; pedicels minutely papillose, appearing 
pruinose, 3-5 mm. long; flowers umbellate to short racemose-corymbose, mi- 
nutely papillose-puberulent, about 3 mm. long at anthesis, the buds conspic- 
uously angled; sepals minute, triangular, 0.5-0.75 mm. long, obtuse, punctate; 
petals lanceolate, 3-4 mm. long, densely papillose-tomentose over entire inner 
surface, punctate in lines; stamens 2—2.5 mm. long; filaments stout, up to 1.4 
mm. long, epunctate; anthers erect, lanceolate, up to 1.75 mm. long, dorsifixed 
about one-third above base, acute, concolorous or with one to several small 
black glands dorsally; ovary depressed-ovoid, minutely white tomentose over 
entire surface, apically the hairs slightly longer, basal third of style minutely 
tomentose; style short, about 2.5 mm. long, punctate in lines; placenta sub- 
globose or strongly depressed-globose, small, minutely apiculate; ovules 7-11, 
rather small, crowded, uniseriate, enclosed. 
GUATEMALA.—Atta Verapaz: Chicoyonito, alt. 4300 pp., Apr. 1889, John Donnell 
Smith 1706 (GH, US). HuEHUETENANGO: above San Juan Ixcoy, Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, 
alt. 2400 m., Aug. 4, 1942, Julian A. Steyermark 49994 (F, US), tree 30 ft. tall, leaves deep 
green above, paler green beneath. QuicHE: Nebaj, in a remnant of the cloud forest, alt. 7700 
ft., Nov. 16, 1934, Alexander F. Skutch 1681 (F, type; A, US, isotypes), shrub, 20 ft. high, 
fis. white, berries red; El Boqueron, near Nebaj, in mossy wet ravine, alt. 8000-8200 ft., Aug. 
15, 1964, George R. Proctor 25532 (LL), shrub, 5 m. 
The angled and compressed peduncles and branches of the inflorescences, 
the reduced peduncles of the umbels, sometimes scarcely 1 mm. long, petals 
less than 4 mm. long, angled buds, and the minute smooth indument of terminal 
buds and branchlets, serve to characterize this very distinctive species. 
The Steyermark collection, in young fruit, has pedicels up to 6 mm. long. 
They may be accrescent as in some other members of the genus. 
62. PARATHESIS LATIFOLIA Lundell, Wrightia 3: 83, fig. 51. 1963. Fig. 60. 
Shrub, branchlets stout, the indument of terminal buds and apical internodes 
smooth and tightly appressed, tan in color; leaves with short thick petioles up 
to 1.5 em. long, at first sparsely papillose above at base and along petiole, other- 
wise glabrous; leaf blades obovate-elliptic, 14-25 em. long, 7.5-9 em. wide, apex 
abruptly short acuminate, the acumen obtuse, base cuneate, decurrent, char- 
taceous, irregularly crenate, costa plane above, prominent beneath, primary 
lateral veins very slender; inflorescences axillary, paniculate, up to 10 cm. long, 
including peduncle 3 cm. long, angled, 1- or 2-branched, compact, the secondary 
branches reduced, sometimes only 1 mm. long, the indument minute, very 
closely appressed; pedicels papillose-puberulent, 4-6 mm. long; flowers sub- 
corymbose, 5 mm. long at anthesis, finely papillose-tomentulose; sepals 1—1.5 
mm. long, acute, red-punctate; petals lanceolate, about 6 mm. long, papillose- 
tomentose on inner surface except for glabrous area above base, papillose at 
