Brazit: Estado do Amazonas— Foz do Uaupés. ‘*Cunuri da terra 
Jirme, 60 ft. bole above 6 ft. buttress to crown rising 30 ft. and with 
30 ft. spread. Wood fairly soft; sample of this tree in Harvard wood 
collection. Seeds eaten by natives; see Spruce for preparation. With 
Hevea and Monopteryx in unflooded forest. Chromosomes: 2 n= 36.’ 
J. T. Baldwin Jr. 3683, March 13, 1944. (Herb. Gray; Herb. Instit. 
Agron. Norte; U.S. Nat. Herb.; Herb. Kew.)—Serra Comande, 
Umarituba (above Santa Isabel). ““Cunuré da terra firme.”’ J. T. Bald- 
win Jr. 83689, March 22, 1944. (Spec. cum fructu unico: Herb. Arn. 
Arb.; Herb. Instit. Agron. Norte; U.S. Nat. Herb.)—Sao Paulo de 
Olivenca. ‘‘Mata. Arvore grande. Cunuri.’’ Ricardo de Lemos Frées 
20752, April 1945 (U.S. Nat. Arb. Herb. 182190, 182204),—Porto 
Curucui, Sao Gabriel, Rio Negro. ‘‘Terreno silicoso, beira rio nao 
inundavel.’’ Ricardo de Lemos Frées 21129, Oct. 9, 1945. (U.S. Nat. 
Arb. Herb. 182193, 182205). 
Cotompia: Comisaria del Vaupés— Rio Papuri, vicinity of Santa 
Teresita. ‘Tall trees averaging 35 m. in height, and 80 cm. in di- 
ameter above the conspicuously developed and unique stilt buttresses 
which are produced to a height of 3-4 m. as laterally compressed 
board-like flanges which act as flying buttresses, the bases widely de- 
tached from the trunk, the arch often high enough for a man to walk 
upright beneath. Leaves simple, with two basal disk-like glands. In- 
florescence of small green flowers from axillary growth. Large trisper- 
mate capsule typical of Hevea. Bark very thin, 6-8 mm., with scanty 
latex which coagulates with difficulty, producing a non-elastic gum. 
Seeds collected by the local Indians for food. Known as “‘ wah-puh’’ 
(Tukano).’? Paul H. Allen 3063, August 15, 1943. (Herb. Gray). 
Peru: Departamento de Loreto— Mishuyacu, near Iquitos, alt. 100 
m., forest. “‘Tree 15 m. high, fl. light yellow.”’ G. Klug 1312, May- 
June 1930. (Herb. Field Mus. 627499).—‘‘Tree 20 m. high; fl. 
yellow.’ G. Klug 1325, May-June 1930. (Herb. Field Mus. 627508). 
—‘**Tree 18 m. high; fl. white.’’ G. Klug 340, October-November 
1929. (Herb. Field Mus. 624153). 
Venezueta: ‘“Cunuri, ling Barré. Arbor vasta, 100-140 pedalis lac- 
tescens, in radicibus exsertis late arcuatis suffulta. Pericarpium exter- 
num subcarnosum, Ad Casiquiarem, in sylvis. Jan. 1853. Per partes 
superiores fluviorum Nigri et Pacimonis ut etiam per totum fluv. Uaupés 
vulgata.’’ Spruce 3299 (Herb. Kew (two specimens); Herb. Brit. 
Mus. ; Herb. Univ. Cambr.)—‘‘ Ad flumina Casiquiari, Vasiva et Paci- 
moni. Cunuri.’’ Richard Spruce 3299, 1853-54. (Typus) (Herb. Gray ; 
Herb. N.Y. Bot. Gard. Photo spec. Herb. Geneva). 
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