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described below, also from Cerro de la Neblina. These structures seen in both 

 genera recall also vaguely the flowers of Dicypellium. Both of the latter genera, 

 however, bear stamens with four-celled anthers. 



Endlicheria sprucei (Meissner) Mez, Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 125. 1889. 



Goeppcrtia sprucei Meissner in DC. Prodr. 15': 172. 1864. 



Type. Prope Panure ad Rio Uaupes, Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil, Spruce 

 2769 (isotype, J* fl. NY). 



Distribution. A tree, or shrub? described from the Rio Vaupes region of 

 Amazonian Brazil and reported from Loreto, Peru. BRAZIL. Amazonas: tereno 

 silicoso, bordade Caatinga, Jauarete, Vaupes, Rio Negro, Froes 21211 (2 fl. NY). 



The pistillate specimen was collected by Froes a few miles west of the type 

 locality at the outermost point along the Rio Negro penetrated by Spruce. Ap- 

 parently the latter did not find the species in that area, for we have no collection 

 made by him there. 



Endlicheria gracilis Kostermans. Meded. Bot. Mus. Utrecht 42: 528. 1937. 



Endlicheria grisea Kostermans. Keinwardtia 6: 285, fig. 3. 1962. (liolotype, $ fl. WB 454 

 (5864) K; isotype, NY). 



Type. Small tree, fruit black, vicinity of Barranca Bermeja, between 

 Sogamoso and Colorado Rivers, Magdalena Valley, Department of Santander, 

 < Jolombia, 100-500 m, 14 Nov 1934, Oscar Haught nil \ isotype, <j> fl. NY). 



Vernacular Names. Muneu-3 T ek (Steyermark) ; Iro, Silberballi (Br. G.) 



Distribution. Small tree widely occurring, besides in the type locality, in 

 Venezuela, east on the sandstone areas of the Rio Orinoco and its tributaries in 

 Amazonas, in the Kavanayen region in Bolivar; and in the rainforest of the 

 Kanuku Mountains in British Guiana. VENEZUELA. Amazonas: in dry wood- 

 land at edge of Culebra savanna, Rio Cunucunuma, Maguire, Cowan & Wurdack 

 29436 (J fl. NY) ; Bolivar: selva de Oparuma, Kavanayen, Lasser 1881 (J fl. F, 

 US) ; lower portion of Quebrada O-paru-ma, between Santa Teresita de Kavana- 

 yen and Rio Pacairao (tributary of Rio Mouak), Steyermark 60428 ($ fl. fr. F). 

 BRITISH GUIANA. Swamp forest remnant by Mission field, For. Dept. Brit. 

 Guiana, G 233 (7209) (fr. NY). 



This is one of several instances of a disjunct distribution Avhere a taxon is 

 common to the sandstone, the Amazon, and the cordilleran areas of northern 

 South America. Isotypes of both species described by Dr. Kostermans are before 

 me. Any visible difference between them seems to be well within the latitude of 

 variation frequently found in species of lauraceous genera. Examination of the 

 isotypes does not disclose the differences which a comparison of the original 

 descriptions would indicate. There remains the possibility, however, that there 

 has been an error in numbering the sheets. This species, by an odd coincidence, 

 superficially resembles very strongly Ocotea gracilis (Meissner) Mez, but on 

 examination of the flower is immediately placed in Endlicheria. The leaves of the 

 Ocotea have longer caudate tips than those of the above species. Endlicheria 

 gracilis apparently has no close relatives within the genus. 



Endlicheria bracteolata (Meissner) C. K. Allen, stat. nov. 



Goeppertia sericea Nees var. bracteolata Meissner in DC. Prodr. IS 1 : 174. 1864. 



Type. Prope San Carlos, ad Rio Negro, Amazonas, Venezuela, 1853-54, Spruce 

 3092 (isotype, ^ fl. NY). 



