In trying to identify a number of plants from Cauca 
(cf. Agric. Trop. 11 (1955) 471) which the late Colom- 
bian poet, Dr. Guillermo Valencia, mentioned in a letter 
by their vernacular names, we were unable to determine 
‘*verba de venado.”” A letter to Dr. Alvaro Ferndndez of 
the Instituto de Ciéncias Naturales of Bogota, a student 
of the flora of Cauca, led to his discovery that the natives 
of the Hacienda de Paletaré refer to Halenia Weddel- 
liana as cacho devenado (‘deer horn’’) and that they value 
the plant for treating venereal diseases. This interesting 
use must be of long standing and widespread in Cauca, 
forasynonym of Halenia Weddelliana is H. antigonor- 
rhoiea Gilg. 
Halenia Weddelliana is not uncommon in southern 
Colombia (Cauca and Narino), Ecuador and Pert. 
Cotompia: Departamento del Cauca, Hacienda de Paletara. Alt. 
about 3000 m. “‘Hierba en potreros. Flores verde-amarillento. Usada 
por los nativos para tratar enfermedades venéreas. Cacho de venado.”’ 
January 3, 1954, 4. Fernandez 2653. 
SOLANACEAE 
Solanum apaporanum FP. EF. Schultes in Bot. 
Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ. 18 (1949) 292. 
The type of this unusual species was collected in the 
upper course of the Rio Apaporis. ‘The second and third 
collections, Schultes & Cabrera 12717 and 19828, estab- 
lish its occurrence likewise in the lower course of the 
same river, some 1,000 kilometers downstream. 
CotomBiA: Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Apaporis, entre el Rio 
Pacoa y el Rio Kananari, Soratama. Alt. ca. 250m. “Vine. Flowers 
white; anthers yellow. Flood-bank.*’ June 21, 1951, Richard Evans 
Schultes & Isidoro Cabrera 12717.—Comisarias del Amazonas-Vaupés, 
Rio Apaporis, Jingojé (at mouth of Rio Piraparand) and vicinity. Alt. 
about 700 feet. General location: Lat. 0°15’ S, Long. 70°30! W. 
March 1952, Schultes & Cabrera 19828. 
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