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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



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Type collection: Kalbreyer 1413, "tufted habit, 2^-3'; leaf erect, thin; 

 spathe 5-6" L, green, nerved when old inside white ; spadix bent greenish or 

 yellowish; forest shady marshy spaces 3000'; Rastrojas," Colombia, 15 Feb 1880 

 (holotype K). 



COLOMBIA: Sur de Santander: Amarilla Creek, vie. of Barranca Bermeja. Magdalena 

 Valley between Sogamoso and Carare Rivers, Jul 1936, H aught 1894 (US). 



PANAMA: Darien: trial between Paya & Pucro, wet forested area, Jun 1959, Stern, 

 Chambers, Dwyer 4' Ebinger 404 (MO). 



8. kalbreyeri is limited to the Magdalena Valley of Colombia and adjacent 

 Darien, Panama. It is remarkably similar to 8. cuspidatum, but is probably 

 distinct, Each of these species has a very limited range, and is separated from 

 the other by all Guayana and the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes. 8. kalbreyeri 

 is distinct in its oblong spathe which is proportionally somewhat narrower than 

 in 8. cuspidatum. There is a tendency toward a small reduction in the number of 

 ovules per ovary in this species, and the blade of the leaf and the spathe are 

 coarser in texture than in 8. cuspidatum. 



9. S. lechlerianum Schott, Prodr. Syst. Aroid. 425. 1860. Figure 6. 



Leaf -blade oblique, narrowly lanceolate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 16-25 cm 

 long and 2.5-4 cm wide, the apex attenuate-acuminate, the base attenuate or 

 acute, the 5 or 6 pairs of primary lateral veins arising at an angle of 25-30° ; 

 petiole 15-25 cm long, prominently alate in the basal two-thirds or nearly to the 

 geniculum in reduced floral leaves; genieulum 1.3-1.8 cm long. Peduncle 27-42 

 cm long; spathe cucullate, broadly lanceolate, 7-12 cm long and 2.2-3 cm wide, 

 the apex acuminate to subcaudate, the base subacute and decurrent on the pedun- 

 cle to 1.4 cm (!), white within, medium green outside (fide Spruce) ; spadix 

 2-3.7 cm long, on a stipe 0.5-1 cm long; perianth segments separate or possibly 

 conglutinate below in age; pistil obpyramidal, apically truncate, the elevated 

 stigma scarcely exceeding the perianth ; ovary 3-locular, the ovules superposed, 

 varying from 5 to 3 in each of the 3 locules, totaling 14-10 ovules per ovary; 

 fruit unknown. 



Type collection: W. Lechler 2338, ''St. Gavan in umbros," Peru, Jul 1854 

 (holotype K). According to Weberbauer (El Mundo Vegetal de los Andes 

 Peruanos 14. 1945) this locality is San Gaban, in "el Oriente andino de la 

 provincia de Carabaya," which is northwest of Lake Titicaca and east or south- 

 east of Cuzeo. 



Distribution : Wooded slopes in southeastern and northeastern Peru, and 

 the Magdalena Valley of Colombia (possibly). 



PERU: prope Tarapoto, Feb 1856, Spruce 4496 (BR, K). 



COLOMBIA: Sur de Santander: camp on Margarita Creek, vie, of Barranca Bermeja, 

 Magdalena Valley, between Sogamoso R. & Colorado R., Sep 1934, Haught 1367 (US). 



CULT, (probably) : Davis 152, < f Hort. Veitch, Aug 1876, teste N. E. Brown," and on same 

 sheet an individual element labeled 1 ' with the Peruvian plants of Mr. Davis, coll. Mess. Veitch, ' ' 

 Jul 1884 (K). 



This species extends almost to 14° S latitude. Specimens collected in widely 

 disjunct localities have been identified as 8. lechlerianum. The Colombian collec- 

 tion (Haught 1367) must be referred to this species, despite the great distance 

 between its collection locality and that of other specimens. However, it was not 

 considered in the preparation of the description of 8. lechlerianum. 



