LEGUMINOSAE 
Hymenaea oblongifolia Huber in Bol. Mus. Para. 
5 (1909) 386. 
Cynometra Zamorana R. E. Schultes in Bot. Mus. 
Leafl. Harvard Univ. 18 (1949) 801, t. 84. 
The collection Philipson 1647 has very appreciably 
extended the known range of this beautiful tree which 
is known at present from the State of Para in Brazil 
(Ducke 9137, 14982, 16570) west to the eastern rim of 
the Macarena Mountains near the Andean Cordillera in 
Colombia. 
Philipson 1647 is apparently the fourth collection from 
Colombia. In 1912, Ducke collected it at the rapids of 
Cupati (now called La Pedrera) on the Rio Caqueta, at 
the Colombia- Brazilian boundary. The two other Colom- 
bian collections—Schultes 5424 and 5429—were made in 
the upper reaches of the Apaporis basin, half way be- 
tween the Macarena and the Cupati localities. 
Schultes 5424 and 5429 are in fruit and were described 
recently as Cynometra Zamorana R. EK. Schultes. Study 
of the flowering Philipson and Ducke collections has 
indicated the identity of the Schultes material with 
Huber’s Hymenaea oblongifolia. 
It is obvious that Hymenaea oblongifola in eastern 
Colombia is associated with the ancient cretaceous out- 
liers of the Venezuela-Guiana land mass. <As such, it can 
not be expected to be an abundant element of the gen- 
eral Amazonian forest, although it may be rather com- 
mon, as in the upper Apaporis basin, in the localized 
areas where it does occur. 
The common name of Hymenaea oblongifolia in the 
State of Para is jutat. In the Comisaria del Vaupés in 
Colombia, it is called coca. 
Cotompia: Intendencia del Meta, Rio Guapaya, dense humid forest 
> . 4s ee 
at foot of eastern slopes of Sierra Macarena; alt. 450m. — Large tree 
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