Swartzia bracteosa Martius ew Bentham in Mar- 
tius Fl. Bras. 15, pt. 2 (1870) 20. 
A species of the western half of the Amazonia, Swart- 
zia bracteosa is now known, through the collection cited 
below, well within Colombian territory. It is possible 
that the type was from Colombia, for it was collected 
by Martius ‘‘in sylva Yapurensibus. ”’ 
Cotompia: Intendencia del Amazonas, Rio Igaraparand, los alrede- 
dores de La Chorrera, alt. ca. 180 m. ‘Small tree. Fruit red.”’ 
June 4-10, 1942, Richard Evans Schultes 3939. 
VOCHYSIACEAE 
Vochysia lomatophylla Standley in Field Mus. 
Publ. Bot. 22 (1940) 150. 
Vochysia lomatophylla was described from material 
collected on the Rio Mazin in Loreto, Peru; it has also 
been known from the Rio Solimdées in Brazil (Stafleu in 
Rec. Trav. Bot. Néerl. 41, bk. 2 (1948) 505). The col- 
lections cited below are the first recorded from Colombia 
and greatly extend the known distribution of the species 
to the headwaters of the Rio Negro basin. 
Cotompta: Comisaria del Vaupés, Upper Vaupés River, alt. about 
300 m. (?) January, 1944, Gabriel Gutiérrez & Richard Evans Schultes 
504.—Comisaria del Vaupés, Upper Vaupés River, near Miraflores, 
alt. about 300 m. (?) ‘‘Enormous tree on floodland along banks.’’ 
January, 1944, Gabriel Gutiérrez & Richard Evans Schultes 701. 
Vochysia obscura Warming in Martius FI. Bras. 
18, pt. 2 (1875) 73, t. 13. 
Widely distributed in the Amazon basin of Brazil and 
Peru and in southern Venezuela, this species of savannas 
and caatinga-forests has not hitherto been reported from 
Colombia. The collection cited below extends the known 
range very far to the northwest. 
Cotompia: Comisaria del Vaupés, Cerro Chiribiquete, January, 
1944, Gabriel Gutiérrez & Richard Evans Schultes 688, 
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