margins hyaline and glandular-ciliolate, red-punctate, 
narrowly ovate-oblong, about 2 mm. long, obtusish. 
Corolla 5—5.5 mm. long, glabrous outside, shortly glan- 
dular-pilose within at base; petals five, united at base, 
ovate, strongly reflexed at anthesis, red-punctate. An- 
thers about 2.3 mm. long, lanceolate, attenuate to a short 
subulate apex, red-punctate dorsally. Filaments glandu- 
lar-pilose, stout, subequaling the anthers. Ovary punc- 
tate, ovoid, glabrous. Style 3.5 mm. long, slender. 
Mexico: Oaxaca, District of ‘Teotitlan, barranca Nin-du-da-gé, San 
Antonio Eloxochitlin, a small tree, long. 96°45’, lat. 18°21, alt. 
1100 m., July 24, 1938, Richard Evans Schultes & Blas Pablo Reko 273 
(Type in Herb. Univ. Michigan); District of Teotitlin, Cerro de los 
Frailes, a small shrub, 2 m. tall, in dense rain forest, alt. 1800 m., 
August 2, 1938, Schultes & Reko 888 (Econ. Herb. Oakes Ames No. 
7121); District of Teotitlin, barranca Nin-du-da-gé, San Antonio EI- 
oxochitlin, a small tree 12-15 feet tall, in forest near arroyo, July 6, 
1939, Schultes 792 (Tovoryrr in Econ. Herb. Oakes Ames No. 8445). 
Dr. Lundell writes: ‘‘Ardisia Rekow is a remarkably 
distinct species clearly allied to A. nigrescens Oerst. of 
the subgenus JIcacorea.”’ 
The Mazatee Indians of San Antonio Eloxochitlan 
report that the small fruits of Ardista Rehkow are edible. 
The plant is referred to by the Spanish name capulin 
and by the Mazatee name sh/a-na-tau. 
Parathesis Schultesii Lundell sp. nov. 
Frutex, ramulis ferrugineo-tomentosis. Folia integra, 
membranacea vel subchartacea, oblanceolata, 7.5—-18 em. 
longa, 2—3.5 em. lata, apice attenuata, obtusa, basi acuta, 
utrinque ferrugineo-pubescentia; petiolis usque ad 7 mm. 
longis. Inflorescentiae paniculatae, pauciflorae, axillares, 
ferrugineo-tomentosae. Pedicelli 7-12 mm. longi. Sepala 
lanceolato-subulata, cirea 2 mm. longa. Fructus pubes- 
centes. 
A tall shrub, branchlets slender, ferruginous-tomentose 
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