style are much more carnose and longer than in either 
Symphonia globulifera or S. utilissima. 
The resinous pitch obtained from Symphonia micro- 
phyllais employed by the Taiwano and Kabuyari Indians 
of the Rio Kananari for the same purposes as that of JS. 
globulifera. 
Cotomsia : Comisarias del Vaupés and Amazonas, Rio Apaporis, Rau- 
dal de Jirijirimo. ‘“Flowers red. Tree, 45 feet tall. Latex yellow, used 
as brea. Puinave = kd; Yukuna= main; Kuripako=mai-ne.’’ November 
27, 1951, Richard Evans Schultes & Isidoro Cabrera 14662 (Tyre in 
Herb. Gray). 
Symphonia utilissima PR. EF. Schultes sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, usque ad quadraginta quinque pedes alta, 
nune gracilis et inter vicinas subscandens vel eis suffulta, 
nunc robustior et erecta, copiose resiniflua, latice flavo. 
Rami late strato-patentes. Ramuli teretes, cortice cin- 
ereo, apice dense foliati, internodiis 15-17 cm. longis. 
Petiolus leviter canaliculatus, 4-5 mm. longus. Folia 
subcoriacea, supra nitida et atroviridia, infra pallidiora, 
elliptica, longe acuminata, basi cuneata, 6-7 cm. longa, 
»—-2.3 em. lata, nervis lateralibus numerosis, inter se plus- 
minusve 1 mm. distantibus, utrinque aequaliter promi- 
nulis. Inflorescentiae abbreviatae, in ramulis lateralibus 
sessiles, umbelliformes, ramulis floriferis dense foliatis, 
internodiis brevibus, 4-5 em. longis. Pedicelli in quoque 
fasciculo saepissime 8-12, flavo-virides, 8-10 mm. longi, 
basi bibracteolati bracteolis sanguineis, minutissimis. 
Alabastrum globosum, 4-6 mm. in diametro. Sepala 
subcoriacea, roseo-violacea, suborbicularia, plusminusve 
3 mm. longa, 4 mm. lata. Petala aliquid crassa, san- 
guinea, aestivatione contorta, valde cucullata, orbicu- 
laria, 6-8 mm. longa et lata, margine integerrima, extus 
parte inclusa levi, exposita crassiore atque rugulosa. Dis- 
cus extrastaminalis 0.8-1 mm. altus. Synandrium san- 
guineum, tubo lageniformi quam petala breviore, 4 mm. 
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