nearly a century later at the same locality by Ducke 
who reported (in La Géogr. 80 (1914-15) 865-872) that 
among the strange plants on the rocks at the summit 
of the Cerro de La Pedrera ‘‘on remarque. ... une trés 
curieuse Cypéracée inconnue ailleurs, le Cephalocarpus 
Dracaenula Nees.”’ 
CotomsBia: Intendencia del Amazonas, Rio Caqueta, La Pedrera. 
April 1944, Richard Evans Schultes 5858. 
BROMELIACEAE 
Aechmea corymbosa (Mart.) Mez in Martius FI. 
Bras. 8, pt. 8 (1892) 316. 
The type of this species was collected by Martius on 
the Rio Caqueta of Colombia near the Brazilian bound- 
ary. Schultes 5377 greatly extends to the northwest the 
known range of this species. 
CotomB1A: Comisaria del Vaupés, forest between Apaporis and 
Vaupés Rivers, path from Puerto Naré to Victoria. Alt. about 300 
m. ‘‘Epiphyte. Flowers white. Bracts scarlet. Very fragrant.’’ April 
10-17, 1943, Richard Evans Schultes 5377. 
Aechmea Schultesiana (Mart.) Mez in Martius 
FI. Bras. 3, pt. 3 (1892) 334. 
In 1942, Smith indicated (in Caldasia no. 1 (1942) 13) 
that Cuatrecasas 7250 from Mitt in the Comisaria del 
Vaupés was the first collection of Aechmea Schultesiana 
from Colombia. 
Since that date, three additional collections from very 
far distant points in Colombia have been made, indicat- 
ing that the species is to be found in nearly all sectors 
of the Republic. 
Aechmea Schultesiana is known from Colombia, Peru, 
Venezuela and Costa Rica. Schultes 3610 was collected 
on the Colombian-Ecuadorean border, so the species 
must be also assigned to Ecuador. 
Cotompra: Comisaria del Putumayo, Rio Sucumbios, Santa Rosa y 
alrededores, Alt. 380 m.? ‘‘Bracts red. Epiphyte.’’ April 7-8, 1942, 
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