now be characterized as follows: petals narrowly obo- 
vate, white, conspicuously red at the base; staminodal 
dise or crown 2-4 mm. high, bearing one to several series 
of apparently circular or tangentially compressed sterile 
anthers or antheral depressions; in savanna forms, the 
corona may be obsolete; ovary 5- (6) celled; stigmas 
ovate, 2-8 mm. long, basifixed and subsessile, connivent, 
borne on a stylar column ca. 1-8 (4) mm. long; fruit 
obovate, oblong, ca. 3 cm. long, the endocarp becoming 
cartilaginous and transversely corrugate (in the manner 
of C. purpurea). 
Brazit: ‘‘Ad Sao Gabriel do Cachoeira, in fissuris rupium, Alto 
Amazonas, Brasiliae borealis,’’ Spruce 1980 (Tyrr).—Estado do Am- 
azonas, Rio Cauabury, Holt & Blake 443.—Rio Icana, Pires 695, 696.— 
Serra de Tunui, Black 48-2696.—Rio Uaupés, Schultes & Pires 9052, 
9082.—Rio Negro, Black 22305. 
Co.tomsia: Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Caqueté, Schultes 5865. 
VenezurLa: Territorio del Amazonas, Rio Negro, Schultes & Lépez 
9435,—Rio Cuao, Maguire & Politi 27452, 29037.—Cerro Sipapo, Ma- 
guire & Politi 28705, 28718.—Cerro Marahuaca, Maguire & Maguire 
29138, 29142, 29220.—Cerro Yapacana, Holt & Blake 701. 
Clusia Gaudichaudii Choisy ex Planchon & Triana 
in Ann. Sci. Nat. sér. 4, 13 (1860) 881, sect. Phloi- 
anthera Planchon & Triana. 
Pistillate material of this species has apparently not 
yet been collected. 
Brazit: ‘‘Ad oram meridionalem flum. Amazonum, ad ostium flum. 
Solimoes,’’ Spruce 1581 (Tyrer) (Dupticate Tyre in Herb. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard.).—Estado do Amazonas, Tapurucuara, middle Rio Negro be- 
tween mouth of Rio Curicuriari and Barcellos. “‘Flowers red,’’ Septem- 
ber 26—October 14, 1947, R. FE. Schultes & F. Lopez 8910.—Estado do 
Amazonas, Tupurucuara, middle Rio Negro, between mouth of Rios 
Curicuriari and Barcellos. ““Strangler epiphyte; flowers dark red.’’ 
September 26—-October 14, 1947, R. FE. Schultes & F. Lopez 8926.— 
Estado do Amazonas, Paranagua, Teffé, basin of Rio Jurud. “‘Shrub 
18 feet high, on varzea land.’’ Krukoff 4532. 
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