scapo elongato gracillimo, scapi bracteis fulgide purpur- 
eis, bracteis florigeris secundis tenuioribus differt. 
Known only from fragments, but almost certainly 
stemless, 85 cm. high; leaves to 58 cm. long, obscurely 
punctulate-lepidote, sheaths broadly elliptic, 7 cm. long, 
pale, blades ligulate, acuminate, 25 mm. wide, flat, pur- 
ple toward the base; scape straight, very slender; scape- 
bracts strict, closely enfolding the scape, lanceolate, char- 
taceous, glabrous, purple when dry; inflorescence simple, 
the single incomplete specimen laxly 4-flowered but 
probably not much larger, glabrous; floral bracts secund 
with the flowers broadly elliptic, apiculate, to 85 mm. 
long, less than twice as long as the internodes, thin, 
nerved, ecarinate; pedicels slender, 5 mm. long; sepals 
elliptic, obtuse, 25 mm. long, exserted, thin, nerved, 
castaneous; petals slightly exceeding the sepals, pale 
yellow when dry; stamens included; capsule slenderly 
ellipsoid, slightly exceeding the sepals, long-beaked. 
Cotomsta : Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Papuri, Teresita. ‘“‘Epiphytic. 
Caatinga forest.’’ May 27, 1953, Richard Evans Schultes & Isidoro 
Cabrera 19443 (Type in U.S. Nat. Herb. No. 2087661). 
Araeococcus flagellifolius Harms in Notizbl. 10 
(1929) 784. 
The collection noted below constitutes the first record 
of the genus Araeococcus for Colombia. The species was 
described originally from the state of Amazonas, Brazil, 
and has been found since in Venezuela. 
Cotoms1a: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Kubiyd (tributary of Rio 
Vaupés), Cerro Kafiendé. Savannahs about 15 miles upstream from 
mouth. Quartzite base. Alt. 240-270 m. Lat. 1°0/ N, Long. 70°15/ 
W. November 10, 1952, Richard Evans Schultes & Isidoro Cabrera 
IS348, 
Streptocalyx subnuda L. B. Smith sp. nov. 
A S. Poeppigu Beer, cui affinis, bracteis primariis su- 
perioribus valde reductis quam eis florigeris vix majori- 
bus differt. 
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