Micrandra siphonoides Benth.

Mlcrandra siphonioides Bentham, Hooker Bot.
Joura. 6 (1854) 371.
PLANTAE VENEZUELANAE
AMAZONAS
No 9460 Mlcrandra sl'Dhonloides
Buttressed tree 100 ft. tall, 2 l/2 ft. in dia-
meter, columnar, with spreading crown, ^ruit
small. Flowers yellow, faintly fragrant. I*atex
very thick, white, coagulating rapidly to a
fairly elastic gam, not abundant. Bark “below
near buttresses a reddish brown, above greyish,
relatively smooth, 1 in. thick, deep scarlet
inside.
Rio Negro, Piedra de Cocui.
Richard Evans Schultes et Francisco Lopez December
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