filiformibus, spiculis 1-5 breviter pedicellatis; spiculae 
1.2-1.5 mm. longae; gluma prima minuta; gluma se- 
cunda et lemma sterile aequales, fructu paulo longiora, 
acuta, pilosa; fructus minute rugosus. 
Swallen states: ‘“This species is not closely related 
to any known species of the genus Panicum. It is un- 
usual in having few to several axillary inflorescences from 
the upper nodes, these long exserted on long filiform 
peduncles. ”’ 
Cotomsi1a: Comisaria del Caqueta, Cerro de El Castillo, Rio Apapo- 
ris. Damp sandstone ledge with mosses and Selaginellas. January 16, 
1942, Gabriel Gutiérrez & Richard Evans Schultes 616 (Tyrr in U.S. 
Nat. Herb.). 
CYPERACEAE 
Cephalocarpus Dracaenula Nees in Martius FI. 
Bras. 2, pt. 1 (1842) 162, t. 18. 
The collection which is cited below establishes the oc- 
currence of this curious epiphytic cyperaceous plant far 
to the north of its only other known locality, the Cerro 
de La Pedrera on the Rio Caquetaé at the Colombian- 
Brazilian boundary (Schultes in Bot. Mus. Leafl. Har- 
vard Univ. 18 (1949) 298). 
Additional material and more exact knowledge of this 
genus may indicate that Schultes & Lopez 10066 repre- 
sents a variety of Cephalocarpus Dracaenula, but it seems 
to match this species as delineated by Gilly (in Bull. 
Torr. Bot. Club 69 (1942) 290). 
Cotoms1a: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Guainia basin, Rio Naquieni, 
vicinity of Cerro Monachi. ““Common epiphyte on rocks amidst mosses 
and lichens and on trunks. Flowers very small, white. On summit 
of mountain.’’? June 1948, Richard Evans Schultes & Francisco Lépez 
10066. 
CYCLANTHACEAE 
Carludovica aurantiaca RP. 1’. Schultes sp. nov. 
Planta caulescens, terrestris, in rivulorum saxis colonice 
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