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mm. long, acuminate, dorsifixed one-third above base, with several small orange 
glands dorsally; ovary ovoid, tapering into style, sparsely puberulent at apex; 
style slender, 4—4.5 mm. long, puberulent at base, sparingly short pilose above to 
middle; placenta strongly depressed-globose, apiculate; ovules minute, 8, 
tardily exposed apically, uniseriate. 
MEXICO.—Oaxaca: from Juguila to Cututepeque, S. W. by South from Oaxaca, March 1, 
1845, C. Juergensen 73 (G); locality indefinite, H. Galeotti 1719 (P); Cerro Espino, Cafetal 
Soledad, alt. 800 m., Aug. 1917, Blas Pablo Reko 3335 (US, type). 
P. Rekot and P. macronema Bullock are scarcely separable on the basis of 
material available, but additional collections from Oaxaca may show that there 
are two species. P. macronema has ligulate sepals, 0.6—1 mm. long, while the 
sepals of P. Rekoi are subulate and up to 1.4 mm. long. In P. Rekoi the flowers 
are smaller, the style is sparsely short pilose to middle, and the leaves are obovate 
or obovate-elliptic. 
67. PARATHESIS MACRONEMA Bullock, Hooker’s Ic. Plant. 34, pl. 3397. 1939. 
Ardisia chiapensis Brandeg., Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 10: 413. 1924, not Parathesis chiapensis 
Fernald, 1901. 
Parathesis Hintonii Lundell, Wrightia 3: 82. 1963. 
Shrub or small tree, up to 4 m. tall, branchlets rather slender, at first ferru- 
ginous-tomentose with closely appressed stellate hairs, glabrescent; leaves very 
variable in size and shape, with slender petioles 5-20 mm. long; leaf blades ob- 
long-elliptic, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 5-20 em. long, 1.2-5 em. wide, apex 
obtuse to obtusely acuminate, base cuneate, subentire to finely crenulate- 
serrulate, membranaceous to subchartaceous, at first rather sparsely pubescent 
on lower surface with small appressed stellate hairs, glabrous at maturity, costa 
elevated beneath, the primary lateral veins very slender, 14-16 on each side; 
inflorescences axillary, slender, lax, paniculate, 5-18 em. long, 1- or 2-branched, 
bracteate, with long slender tomentulose peduncles, the branches sparsely 
puberulent; pedicels filiform, 5-17 mm. long, accrescent; flowers corymbose or 
racemose-corymbose, minutely granular-puberulent, 4-6 mm. long at anthesis; 
sepals ligulate, 0.6-1 mm. long, orange-punctate; petals triangular-linear, 
4-6.5 mm. long, densely papillose-tomentose over entire inner surface, promi- 
nently orange-punctate in lines; stamens 3.75—4.5 mm. long; filaments rather 
slender, 2.75-3.5 mm. long, papillose-puberulent below middle; anthers erect, 
linear-lanceolate, 1-1.3 mm. long, base sagittate, apex acuminate to cuspidate, 
usually with several orange-colored glands dorsally, sometimes eglandular; 
ovary ovoid, sparsely puberulent apically; style slender, 3.5-5 mm. long, rather 
sparsely puberulent basally; placenta subglobose, apiculate; ovules (6) 7 or 8 
(10), uniseriate, enclosed or tardily exposed apically ; fruits globose or depressed- 
globose, drying up to 7 mm. in diam. 
MEXICO.—Cutapas: Hacienda Monserrate, Sept. 1923, C. A. Purpus 9273 (US, type of 
Ardisia chiapensis Brandeg.; F, GH, LL, NY, isotypes); gulches near Fenia, May, 1925, 
C. A. Purpus 154 (US); along brook, Fenia, May, 1925, C. A. Purpus 310 (LL, US); Fenix, 
along mountain brooks, May-June, 1925, C. A. Purpus 10310 (NY); Rancho Phoenix, wet 
ground, May, 1926, C. A. Purpus 10023 (GH, LL, 5, UC). Guerrero: El Porvenir, alt. 950 m., 
Mar. 26, 1899, E. Langlasse 967 (GH); District Mina, Aguazarca, arroyo, May 1, 1937, Geo. B. 
