ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE ERIOCAULACEAE . XCVI Harold N, Moldenke PAFPALANTHUS SCOPVLIFER Alv, Silv. Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 33: 148, 1976; Moldo, Phytol. Mem. 2: 158 & 618. 1980. Citations: MOUNTED CLIPPINGS: Alv. Silv., Fl. Mont. 1: 98—99. 19?8 (I-d, N, W). PAEPALANTHUS SCOPULORUM Mold. Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 33: 1A8— 1A9 (1976) and 35: 120. 1977; Mold., Phytol. Mem. 2: 118 & 618. 1980; Mold., Phytologia 50: 2A5 & 2A6. 1982, Recent collectors have found this plant growing on open rocky plateaus, in marshes, and "along moist ledges at base of sal to ", at 6A0 — 2A20 m, altitude, often "locally frequent", flowering and fruiting in February, August, and October. Tillett and his associates describe it as an herb, the leaves thin, slightly brittle, dark-or mid-green, the "bracts at base of and scapes light-green", the inflorescence bracts brovmish or blackish, the flowers white, and have found it "locally abundant in grass on hillsides of sandstone talus in mist from falls covered with dense 1 m. growth of grass, herbs and some low shrubs" and "local-ly frequent in wet areas, scrub and low (8 — 10 m.) forest: in Guy-ana. Material of this species has been mlsidentifled and distribu-ted in some herbaria as the very similar P. tatei Mold, and the Steyermark 75491 collection, cited below, was erroneously so reported by me in a previous publication. Steyermark and his associates say of their nos. 115578 & 115718 "cf. also P. per-plexans and P. roraimensis" which are likewise obviously closely related taxa. The Maguire & al, 31718, cited below, v/as also previously erroneously regarded by me as P. tatei. Additional citations: VENEZUELA: Amazonas: Maguire, Phelps, Hitchcock, & Budowski 31718 (F, Gl, K, W, Ve, W~204654A) ; Steyermark, Espinosa, McDiarmid, s Brewer -Car las 115718 (Ld) , 115578 (Ld). Bolivar: S. Maguire 33045 (W — 2168895); Steyermark 59914 (W~1901801~lsotype), 75491 (Ss, W~ 2407755). GUYANA: Tillett S Tillett 45751 (N) ; Tillett, Tillett, S Boyan 45071 (N). PAEPALANTHUS SCOPULORUM var. AUYANTEPUIENSIS Mold. Additional bibliography: Mold,, Phytologia 33: 149, 1976; Mold., Phytolc Mem. 2: 118 & 618. 1980. Recent collectors describe this plant as having elongated stems, flaccid grass-green leaves, and black involucres, and re-fer to it as locally frequent at 1895 — 1910 m, altitude, in flower in February. The Steyermark & Wurdack collection, cited 57
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