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es: corolla ovate-campanulate, 6 or 7 mm. long. — Cnrapas, 
in woods between San Cristébal Las Casas and Huitztan, March 10, 
O. & E. Seler, no. 2126). Growing with P. czliaris, Don, but 
related to P. coriacea, Klotzsch, from which it differs in its pale 
autely puberulent branchlets, paler leaves and glandless calyx. 
staphylos Conzattii. Shrub with smooth reddish bark easily 
from the branches: leaves oblong-oblanceolate, acute, 2 to 4 cm. 
75 to 1.5 cm. wide, entire and subcuneate below to a short petiole, 
ly serrate above the middle, smooth and sublucid above, sparingly 
pilose beneath: racemes terminal, panicled, 1 dm. or less long; 
his, pedicels and short ovate-lanceolate bracts puberulent ; pedicels 
cted, 1 cm. long: calyx puberulent, with ovate bluntish lobes : 
‘olla urceolate, glabrous, 5 or 6 mm. long. — Oaxaca, Sierra de San 
slipe, alt. 3,000 m., April 7 and 8, 1898 (C. Conzatti, no.691). In its 
inflorescence resembling A. rupestris, Robinson & Seaton, but differing 
in its much smaller but more coarsely toothed leaves. 
A. glabrata. Shrub with smoothish gray-brown bark; the young 
branches reddish-brown: leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, acute or blunt, 
to 4 em. long, about 1 cm. wide, tapering to short thick petioles 
3 or 4 mm. long, entire or sharply serrate with short mucronate teeth, 
bright green above, paler beneath, ferrugineous-tomentulose when 
young, becoming glabrate: racemes simple, terminal or axillary, 2 or 
3 cm. long; the rachis, the lance-acuminate bracts, and the short (3 to 
5 mm. long) pedicels ferrugineous-tomentose, rarely a little glandular: 
calyx slightly tomentulose, the lobes broadly deltoid: corolla urceolate, 
glabrate, 4 or 5 mm. long: berries dark, 6 or 7 mm, in diameter. — 
Oaxaca, ledges at the summit of Sierra de San Felipe, alt. 3,500 m., 
Sept. 25, 1894 (C. G. Pringle, no. 5712), Aug. 15,1897 (0. Conzatti & 
V. Gonzdlez in Exsice. Conzatti, no. 409) ; mountains about Yalalag, alt. 
1,850 m., Aug. 1. 1894 (2. W. Nelson, no. 973). Related to A. arguta, 
Zuce., but differing in its shorter leaves, and shorter simple essentially 
plandises raceme. 
Parathesis chiapensis. Branches stout, gray and cncethia, the 
younger parts closely tomentose with short stellate ferrugineous hairs: 
leaves elliptic, 1.5 to 2 dm. long, narrowed above to a short slender 
acumen and below to a thick cinereo-ferrugineous petiole 0.5 to 1 cm. 
long; margin closely and finely crenate-dentate ; upper surface smooth 
and dull, the lower ferrugineous-tomentose when young, becoming gla- 
brate: panicle terminal, leafy below, in anthesis 1.5 dm. high, pyram- 
idal, the spreading branches 3 to 6 cm. long, bearing many-flowered 
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