Brazit: Estado do Amazonas, Rio Solimoes, near Kea [now called 
Teffé| [fide Mueller in Prodr. 717, no. 2] 1834, Poeppig 2595. 
Consisting of several leaves and flowering inflorescen- 
ces, this specimen ts labelled **Perou/ MW. Poeppig 1884." 
In a small envelope containing flowers, there is a label 
"2595.° For our information that the specimen was col- 
lected “*prope Ega,” we are indebted to Mueller, for 
there is no indication on the sheet that this was its local- 
itv. In fact, it is very probable that the concept repre- 
sented by Poeppig 2595 does not occur in Peru, tor it 
has apparently never been found in that country (ef. 
Seibert in Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 84 (1947) 261). Teffé 
(or Nga) represents almost the westernmost extent of 
Hevea Spruceana. 
Brazi: Estado do Amazonas, Rio Negro, ““de vicinibus Barra | now 
called Mansos|, Prov. Rio Negro. Coll. R. Spruce. Dec.-Mart. 1850— 
51.” 
Originally determined as “*Siphonia elastica Pers. (°° 
this collection represents that expression of HZevea 
Spruceana which is most abundant near the mouth of 
the Rio Negro. It is in fruit and has several beautiful 
seeds very typical of the ALevea Sprucecana of the Mandos 
area: long, considerably flattened, with two very con- 
spicuous flat surfaces ventrally, almost diamond-shaped 
in cross section, measuring 35 mm. long, 12 mm. thick, 
17 18 mm. wide. There are also a number of valves of 
the capsule. 
Brazi: Estado do Amazonas, Rio Amazonas, *‘ad oram septentrio- 
nalem flum. Amazonum, ad ostium Rio Negro. Coll. R. Spruce 1/77. 
Aug. 1851.7" 
Spruce 117 11s the type collection of Stphonia discolor 
(cf. Schultes in Bot. Mus. Leafl). Harvard Univ. 15 (1952) 
253. It represents the same expression of Hevea Spruce- 
ana aus the collection previously discussed. 
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