LUNDELL: THE GENUS PARATHESIS 183 
Valley of Cordoba, Dec. 12, 1865-1866, M. Bourgeau 1580 (F, K, LL, P); same locality, Dec. 
14, 1865-1866, M. Bourgeau 2252 (GH, K, P); Cordoba, Jan. 1904, C. A. Purpus s.n. (UC, 
type); Cordoba, Jan. 25, 1906, J. M. Greenman 159 (F, GH); Ejido de Manzanares, 1—4 km. 
nw. of Campo Experimental de Hule, El Palmar, Zongolica, Feb. 1, 1944, Jose Vera Santos 
2763 (LL, MICH), 3 m. tall; vicinity of Rio Tonto, Ejido de Almilinga, 6 km. west of Campo 
Experimental de Hule, El Palmar, Zongolica, Jose Vera Santos 2829 (LL, MICH), shrub 3 m. 
tall, mature fruits red. InpEFrnrTE: Mesas de San Diego, Mar. 18, 1951, Helia Bravo H. 53 
(MEXU). 
71. PARATHESIS MELANOSTICTA (Schlecht.) Hemsl., Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 
2: 291. 1882. Fig. 68 and Plates 34, 35. 
Ardisia melanosticta Schlecht., Linnaea 8: 526. 1833, not Lauterbach & K. Schum., 1900. 
Parathesis Matudai Lundell, Am. Midland Nat. 19: 431. 1938. 
Branchlets rather stout, finely tomentose with very closely appressed stellate 
hairs; leaves with petioles up to 2 cm. long; leaf blades obovate, oblanceolate or 
elliptic, 6-20 cm. long, 2.5-7 cm. wide, apex subabruptly acuminate, base acute 
to acuminate, membranaceous, crenulate, often obscurely so, at first pubescent 
on lower surface with fine closely appressed stellate hairs, densest along petiole 
and costa, glabrescent, the costa elevated beneath, impressed above, the pri- 
mary lateral veins conspicuous beneath, impressed above; inflorescences axillary, 
up to 12.5 em. long, slender but rigid, paniculate, 1- or 2-branched, the branches 
rather rigid, at right angles, puberulent to minutely tomentulose; pedicels 
slender, 3-8, sometimes up to 10 mm. long, minutely puberulent; flowers sub- 
corymbose, finely puberulent, 3.5-5 mm. long at anthesis; sepals minute, tri- 
angular, 0.6-1 mm. long, acute or subulate, black-punctate, puberulent; petals 
linear-lanceolate, up to 5 mm. long, densely black-punctate in lines, finely 
papillose-tomentose on inner surface except at base; stamens about 2.5 mm. long; 
filaments slender, about 1 mm. long, usually black-punctate; anthers lanceolate 
1.5-2 mm. long, tapering to the acutish apex, dorsifixed about one-third above 
base, dorsally sparingly black-punctate with small glands; ovary minutely 
puberulent, the hairs usually longer apically, rather sparsely pubescent at base 
of style; style black-punctate in lines, 2.5—-3.5 mm. long; placenta globose, short 
stipitate, apiculate; ovules 7, uniseriate, enclosed. 
MEXICO.—Oaxaca: Inquila, H. Galeotti 1719 (G); Cuicatlan, camino entre Papalo y la 
Cumbre de Cheve, alt. 2500 m., June 16-22, 1898, V. Gonzalez & Cassiano Conzatti 772 (GH); 
Distrito de Cuicatlan, alt. 2000 m., April, 1901, V. Gonzalez & Cassiano Conzatti 1257 (GH); 
Distrito de Cuicatlan, De Cuyamecalcoa a Santa Ana, 1500 mts., June 23, 1909, Cassiano 
Conzatti 2486 (F). Purnia: D. de Huauchinango, Pahuatlan, April 6, 1914, F. Salazar s.n. 
(MEXU); Tehuacan area, above Teotitlan del Camino on the road to Huautla, in rain forest 
at top of range, alt. ca. 2000-3250 m., Aug. 3, 1961, C. E. Smith, Jr., F. A. Peterson, & Narcisso 
Tejeda 4149 (F), shrub to 2.5 m. tall, flowers pink, fruits dark red. Veracruz: in sylvis inter 
S. Salvador et Jalapam, C. J. W. Schiede 178 (BM, G, NY, P, isotypes); Orizaba, 1856, 
Mateo Botteri 475 (P), 482 (KX); Cerro Punta Coscomat, May 10, 1937, Eizi Matuda 1501 
(MICH, type of P. Matudai; A, MO, NY, isotypes). InpEFINrTE: without locality, 1865-1866, 
M. Hahn s.n. (K). 
The Oaxacan collections have larger weaker inflorescences. In Conzatti 2486 
and Hahn s.n., the leaf margin is conspicuously denticulate, but otherwise these 
collections agree rather closely with the type. 
P. melanosticta, so rarely collected and poorly represented in herbaria, has been 
misinterpreted almost as widely as P. serrulata (Sw.) Mez. 
