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BOTANY OF THE GUAYANA HIGHLANDS PART V 



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suffused with dull wine color, immature fruit pale green ; wooded ridge, fila La 

 Danta, along provisional carretera from km 125 to 127, between Luepa and Cerro 

 Yenamo, Bolivar, Venezuela, 1200 m, 17 Apr 1960, J. A. Steyermark & S. Nilsson 

 255 (holotype, fr.NY). 



Distribution. Known only from the Guayana area of southeastern Venezuela. 



The yellowish-green of the leaves at first glance relates this species to the 

 genus Aiouea, so many of which display this distinctive leaf color. The general 

 structure and venation, however, place it as a probable representative of End- 

 licheria, not far removed from the more southern, widespread species E. panicu- 

 lata (Spr.) Macbride [E. hirsuta (Schott) Nees]. The fruit, even in the immature 

 stage, shows characteristics of those often found in Endlicheria. 



Endlicheria pyriformis (Nees) Mez, Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5: 116. 1889. 



Cryptocarya pyriformis Nees, Syst. Laurin. 220. 1836. 

 Type. Guiana galliea, Poiteau [58] (isotype, fr. NY). 



Distribution. Shrub or tree of varying height, occurring in forests along 

 streams in French and Dutch Guiana, and reported from the Amazon Basin as 

 far west as Peru. SURINAME. On ferrite-laterite, Line A, forested east slopes 

 of Plateau B, Nassau Mountains, Marowijne River, Maguire 40775 (fr. NY), 

 40790 (fr. NY). 



A species conspicuous for the usually yellowish-green branchlets and petioles, 

 and leaf-blades that are chartaceous and very nearly concolorous, with coarse, 

 yellowish venation. The black (in the dried state) fruit is ellipsoid, 25 X 14 mm, 

 enclosed one-fourth to one-third its length in a pateriform, subhemispherical, red 

 (according to the collector) cupule, with somewhat undulate margin, borne on 

 an expanded, obconical pedicel about 15 mm in length. 



Endlicheria wurdackiana C. K. Allen, sp. nov. Fig. 39. 



Arbor ad 8 m alt., gemmis parvis minute adpresseque fulvo- vel griseo- 

 pubescentibus, ramulis rubescentibus mox maculoso-griseis subteretibus glabris. 

 Folia alternata, petiolis satis tenuibus glabris rubescentibus ± teretibus, ad 20 

 mm longis et 2 mm latis, laminis utrinque glabris tenuiter membranaceis utrinque 

 viridibus ellipticis, (9-) 15-19 cm longis et (3.5-) 5-5.3 cm latis, ad basim 

 acutis, ad apicem longe acuminato-caudatis, acumine tenui, ad 3.5 cm longo, 

 penninerviis, costa ad basim rubescenti, supra leA T iter subtus conspicue elevata, 

 utrinque pallide lutescenti, nervis 6-9-paribus supra inconspicuis subtus con- 

 spicuis, tenuibus leviter elevatis, ad angulo 55-45° divergentibus, rete venularum 

 utrinque conspicuo tenui, subtus pallide lutescenti. Inflorescentia ignota. In- 

 fructescentia axillaris, satis crassa, glabra, ad 12 cm longa, ut videtur pendula, 

 rubescenti-brunnea. Fructus viridis fide coll., oblongus, apice rotundata, ad 

 basim ± subrotundatus, ± truncatus, ad 37 X 20 mm, cupula tenui latissime 

 vadeque campanulata undulata tenuiter lobata, ad 3.5 cm longa, 3 (-4) cm diam. 

 et 1.5-2 cm alt., stipite crasso 1.5-2 cm longo, pedicello ad 2 cm longo rubro. 



Type. Tree 8 m, cupule red, fruit green, along Rio Siapa between Raudal 

 Gallineta and Salto Gallineta (about 110-130 river km from mouth), Amazonas, 

 Venezuela, 130-150 m, 23 Jul 1959, J. J. Wurdack & L. S. Adderley 43592 

 (holotype, fr. NY). 



Distribution. Known only from the type locality in the Guayana area of 

 lower Venezuela. 



