LUNDELL: THE GENUS PARATHESIS 175 
Hinton 10402 (UC, type of P. Hintonii; K, LL, US, isotypes) tree 5 m.; District Montes de 
Oca, Banco, Oct. 14, 1937, Geo. B. Hinton 10803 (K, type; BM, F, G, GH, LL, MICH, MO, 
S, US, isotypes), shrub 4 m., fl. pinkish white; District Galeana, Sierrita, edge of stream, alt. 
800 m., Apr. 13, 1939, Geo. B. Hinton 14150 (F, GH, LL, MICH, MO, US), tree 3 m. high, 
flowers white, fruits red. 
P. macronema and P. Rekoi Standl. are remarkable for their comparatively 
long filaments, which are bright purple in color contrasting with the small 
very slender bright yellow anthers. 
The Chiapas specimens vary considerably. Usually they have much smaller 
and narrower leaves, and mostly smaller flowers. Purpus 10023 and 10310 are 
atypical, with extremes of these features. 
68. PARATHESIS CANDOLLEANA Mez, Pflanzenreich IV. 236: 179. 1902. Fig. 65. 
Branchlets thick, the terminal bud and apical internodes minutely and 
appressed puberulent; leaves with slender petioles 1-2 em. long; leaf blades 
elliptic or obovate-elliptic, up to 20 cm. long, 8 em. wide, apex rather abruptly 
acuminate, base acute or subacuminate, membranaceous, sparsely and minutely 
pubescent at first on lower surface with stellate appressed hairs, glabrous at 
maturity, entire or obscurely and irregularly crenulate, costa elevated beneath, 
the primary lateral veins slender; inflorescences axillary, multiflowered, laxly 
paniculate, up to 20 cm. long, long pedunculate, the primary and secondary 
branches slender, minutely puberulent; pedicels slender, densely puberulent, up 
to 8 mm. long; flowers umbellate, minutely puberulent, up to 6 mm. long at 
anthesis; sepals narrowly triangular, 1—1.3 mm. long, acuminate, densely punc- 
tate with reddish glands; petals 6 mm. long, reddish-punctate in lines, papillose- 
tomentose over entire inner surface; stamens up to 3.75 mm. long; filaments 
slender, up to 2.5 mm. long, sparsely short pilose below with gland-tipped hairs; 
anthers erect, linear-lanceolate, up to 2 mm. long, shorter than filaments, dorsi- 
fixed one-third above base, reddish-black punctate dorsally with small glands 
extending down into lobes; ovary ovoid, short villous-tomentulose above middle 
and at base of style; style up to 5 mm. long, with scattered hairs to above middle; 
placenta obovoid, minutely apiculate; ovules 7, uniseriate, enclosed. 
COLOMBIA.—Bocora: Susumuso et Villa-vicencio, alt. 400-1000 m., 1851-1857, evs 
Triana 2581 (P, lectotype; G, K, isotypes). 
Specimens at Kew of two other collections cited by Mez in the original 
description of P. Candolleana (Hartweg, Goudot) are referable to P. adenanthera 
(Miq.) Hook.f. Another, L. J. Schlim 146, is P. venezuelana Mez! Mez’s drawing 
of the flower, attached to Lehmann 7515 at Berlin, corresponds in all details to 
the flower of Triana 2581 (K, P), and I suspect that it was made from this 
collection, rather than the Lehmann specimen, which appears to be past anthesis 
in the photograph (type negative 4873 at Chicago). My interpretation of the 
species is based on Triana 2581 (K, P), and I designate the specimen at Paris as 
the lectotype. The branchlets, puberulent apically, the very slender anthers, 
2 mm. long and shorter than the filaments, and filaments short pilose with gland- 
tipped hairs, are features to be noted. P. Candolleana superficially resembles 
P. venezuelana Mez, but has affinity to P. adenanthera (Miq.) Hook.f. 
The Hartweg specimen at Kew is the type of Ardisia ferruginea H.B.K. var.? 
macrophylla Benth.! 
