This species of Clibadiwm is abundantly cultivated in 
the vicinity of La Pedrera and in the Rio Miritiparana 
for use as a fish-poison. It is known locally as guaco by 
the Spanish-speaking inhabitants and as /v-na-pe by the 
Mirafia Indians. Several other species of Clibadium are 
widely cultivated in the Amazon regions as fish-poisons. 
CoLtompia: Comisaria del Caqueté, Rio Caquetdé, vicinity of La 
Pedrera, April, 1944, Richard Evans Schultes 5879. 
Gongylolepis maroana Badillo in Bot. Soc. Venez. 
Ciéne. Nat. 8 (19438) 287. 
Recently, two stations for this species were reported 
for Colombia, both in the Comisaria del Vaupés (in Bot. 
Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ. 13 (1949) 810). The collec- 
tion cited below is the third from Colombia and extends 
the known range of the plant to the west on the same 
interrupted sandstone hills on which previously reported 
collections were made. 
Cotomsp1a: Comisaria del Vaupés, Ajaju River, Cerro de La Cam- 
pana, quartzite base, summit about 800-1200 feet above forest floor, 
1700-2100 feet above sea-level. ‘‘Composite shrub. Common on top 
of mountain,’’ June 1-6, 1943, Richard Evans Schultes 5568. 
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