BURMANNIACEAE 
Dictyostega orobanchioides (Hook.) Miers var. 
parviflora (Benth.) Jonker ex Pulle in Kon. Ver. 
Kolon. Inst. Amsterdam Med. 80 (1988) 185. 
This interesting saprophytic plant is widespread, 
and is known from ‘Trinidad, Amazonian Brazil, Vene- 
zuela, British Guiana, Surinam and Colombia. Schu/tes 
5672 1s the third collection from Colombia and the second 
from Colombia’s Amazon drainage-area. Jonker cites a 
collection from Sur de Santander; Cuatrecasas 7177 from 
Cerro de Circasia on the Rio Vaupés above Mitt is also 
referable to this variety. 
Cotoms1A: Comisaria del Caqueta, Cerro del Castillo, Rio Apaporis, 
alt. 850-1000 ft. July 27, 1943, Richard Evans Schultes 5672. 
ORCHIDACEAE 
Epidendrum imatophyllum Lindley Gen. et Sp. 
Orch. Pl. (1831) 106. 
Epidendrum imatophyllum is a very common tropical 
American orchid. It has apparently been collected twice 
in Colombia: Haught 1419 from Santander and Schultes 
6729, the first from the Colombian Amazonia. 
Cotomsra: Intendencia del Amazonas, Rio Loretoyacu. ‘‘Flowers 
purple.’’ October 20-30, 1945, Richard Evans Schultes 6729. 
Epidendrum nocturnum Jacquin var. minus 
Cogniaux in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 48 (1907) 823. 
Epidendrum nocturnum var. minus was described from 
material collected by Ule in Loreto, Peru. It is exceed- 
ingly common in the adjacent Amazonian areas of Co- 
lombia. 
CoLomBia: Intendencia del Amazonas, Rio Karaparana, entre las 
’ ’ Oba, : . 
bocas y El Encanto. “Epiphyte. Flowers cream-yellow. Lip white. 
Fragrant.’> May 22-28, 1942, Richard Evans Schultes 3845. 
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