Spruce at Ipanoré, a point on the Rio Uaupés not far 
from the Colombia-Brazilian frontier. 
Cotomsia: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Negro, at confluence of Rios 
Guainia and Casiquiare, Cafio Ducuruapo (Igarapé Rana). ‘‘Small 
bush along bank of river. Fruit scarlet.’’ December 13-17, 1947, 
Richard Evans Schultes & Francisco Lépez 9398. 
Sapium Aubletianum (Miiell.-Arg.) Huber in 
Bull. Herb. Boiss., sér. 2, 6 (1906) 362. 
Schultes & Lopez 8798C represents a topotypical col- 
lection of this rare species of Sapiwm. The type was col- 
lected a century ago by Spruce at Sfio Gabriel on the 
Rio Negro. 
Brazit: Estado do Amazonas, Rio Negro, Sao Gabriel (Uaupés) 
‘“Bush.’? September 19, 1947, Richard Evans Schultes & Francisco 
Lépez 8798C. 
ANACARDIACEAE 
Anacardium negrense Pires & F'rées in Bol. Téen. 
Instit. Agron. Norte, no. 15 (1948) 20, t. 
The type tree of Anacardium negrense is a landmark, 
an enormous and magnificent tree along the bank of the 
Rio Negro at the tiny hamlet of Sao Felipe, below the 
mouth of the Rio Issana. It is obviously cultivated. The 
collection from the neighboring locality of SAo Marcelino 
(Schultes & Lépez 9564) is likewise an isolated tree ob- 
viously planted at the site of a hamlet by man. No 
other trees of this species, so far as I am aware, are en- 
countered along the banks of the Rio Negro, although 
inhabitants of Sio Gabriel (Uaupés) state that a very 
ancient tree of cajuti, growing near the present church, 
was felled twenty or more years ago. In this connection, 
it is of interest perhaps to point out that this tree may 
be the one represented by Richard Spruce in his pencil 
sketch made at Sao Gabriel in July, 1852, and repro- 
duced in his ‘‘Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and 
Andes”’ (ed. A. R. Wallace] 1 (1908) fig. 15, although 
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