In addition to the specimens cited above, we may refer 
to several collections from the Rio Caqueta drainage area 
in eastern Colombia. These collections— Schultes 5869 
and 5989 from the slopes of Cerro de La Pedrera and 
Schultes 5895 and 5932 from the Rio Miritiparana—were 
studied in the field, and critical notes, written in the 
field, were published (Schultes in Caldasia 8, no. 13 
(1945) 247-249). Although the specimens, together with 
several hundred others from the same region, were un- 
fortunately lost in shipment, there is no question about 
the identity of these four collections. The fruit was very 
large, 6 em. long or longer, and was, in all specimens, a 
perfect match for the fruit of Baldwin 3689. A photo- 
graph of the typical enormous buttressed roots was like- 
wise published (doc. cit. fig. p. 248). Along the lower 
Caqueté and Miritiparana rivers, especially in the vicinity 
of the town of La Pedrera (an important Martius type 
locality formerly known and cited as ‘‘Cupati’’), Cunu- 
ria Spruceana is one of the dominant trees on high land, 
especially where there are rock outcrops. The Miranha 
Indians know the tree as ko-nd-ko; the Yukunas as yé- 
cha. Schultes (loc. cit.) reported: ‘‘Where it occurs in 
the lower Caqueta, Colombia, it is abundant, in some 
places. . .. crowding out other common forest trees and 
forming pockets of almost pure stands. It does not occur 
over wide extensions, but seems to be localized in swampy 
or well-watered areas where rock outcrops (sandstone as 
well as granite) are frequent.”’ 
Martius apparently did not collect this species in the 
Cupati locality, where it is so well represented, because 
he happened to pass in the interim between the flowering 
and the fruiting season—in January and February (see 
Dugand in Rev. Acad. Colomb, Ciéne. Exact. Fisie. 
Nat. 5, no. 18 (1942) 212 ff.). Ducke, who collected 
rather extensively in this same locality in late 1922, ap- 
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