Selaginella subarborescens should also be included in an 
enumeration of Colombian species. 
Brazit: Estado do Amazonas, Rio Negro basin, Rio Uaupés, moun- 
tain near Taracud, at mouth of Rio Tikié. November 9, 1947, Richard 
Evans Schultes & Joao Murga Pires 9056. 
ALISMACEAE 
Sagittaria Sprucei Micheli in de Candolle Monogr. 
Phan. 8 (1881) 80. 
Spruce collected the type of this aquatic plant near 
Maniaos in 1855. It has been collected also from Belém 
do Parad at the mouth of the Amazon. Black & Schultes 
46-249 represents, apparently, the first collection from 
Colombia. It is a widespread element along the Amazon 
River. 
CotomsBiA: Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Loretoyacu, October 30, 
1946, G. A. Black & R. E. Schultes 46-249. 
PALMAE 
Ammandra decasperma Cook in Journ. Wash. 
Acad. Sci. 17 (1927) 218, 220. 
The type and apparently only other reported collection 
of this palm was from Buenaventura. Schultes 7353 is 
from a locality rather near Buenaventura. 
Cotoms1A: Departamento de El Valle, Rio Calima, Quebrada La 
Brea, 30-40 m. above sea-level. ‘‘In clumps. Leaves 3 m. long. 
Whole plant 4 m. tall. Flowers white.’’ May 19, 1946, Richard 
Evans Schultes 7353. 
Astrocaryum Munbaca Martius Hist. Nat. Palm. 
2 (1824) 74. 
Astrocaryum Munbaca, a palm of the Guianas and 
Brazil, has apparently not hitherto been reported from 
Colombia. 
Cotompr1a: Comisaria del Amazonas, path from E] Encanto (Rio 
Caraparand) to La Chorrera (Rio Igaraparand). ‘*20 feet tall. Fruit 
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