COLOMBIA: Comisaria del Amazonas. Rio Apaporis, Soratama. **Large 
tree. Flowers white. High land.’’ September 28, 1951. R.E. 
Schultes et 1. Cabrera 14146. 
Xylopia amazonica is valued by the Indians of the Rio 
Apaporis in the form of a tea to induce sleep. The leaves and 
stems are employed. Alkaloids, polyphenols, and essential oils 
have been reported from Xy/opia (Hegnauer, R.: Chemotaxo- 
nomie der Pflanzen 3(1964)118, 120). 
Xylopia Benthamii R.E. Fries in Kgl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 
34, No. 5(1900)35. 
COLOMBIA: Comisaria del Vaupes, Rio Kananari, Cerro Isibukuri. Alt. 2500 
feet. ““Small tree. Pods white and red. Forest on slope near 
summit. December 4, 1951. R.E. Schultes etl. Cabrera 14751. 
According to the Taiwanos of the Rio Kananar1, a tea of this 
plant is administered as a tranquilizer to people who have 
experienced a great fright. 
MyYRISTICACEAE 
Osteophloem platyspermum (Poepp.) Warburg in Nova Acta 
Acad. C. L. C. G. Nat. Cur. 68(1897) 162. 
BRAZIL: Estado do Amazonas, basin of Rio Negro, Rio Uniciuxi, Maku 
Indian village 300 km. above mouth. **Forest on terra firma. Tree. 
25m. x 40cm. diameter. Flowers green. Sap drunk by Maku as cure 
for coughs and colds. Maku = tugnebanpe. October 23, 1971. 
G.T. Prance, R.J.M. Maas, D.B. Woolcott et al. 15571. — Rio 
Negro, vicinity of Manaos, Reserva Ducke. April 11 - 14, 1972. R.E. 
Schultes et W. Rodrigues 26126a. 
The Maku drink the sap as a “‘cure for coughs and colds.”” 
Labourers in the Reserva Ducke near Manaos burn the leaves 
and inhale the smoke to relieve asthmatic conditions. 
Chemical studies of Osteophloem apparently have not been 
effected. 
LEGUMINOSAE 
Acosmium nitens (Voe.) Yakovlev in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. 
Edinb. 29(1969)353. 
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