2. Stenandrium radicosum Nees Stenandrium radicosum Nees, DC. Prodr. 11: 283. 1847. Type locality: "Prope S. Martha et Maracaybo in Colombia in silvis montanis humidis (h. Hooker), Moritz n. 1273 in h. gen. berol." A photograph of the type material from the Berlin Herbarium is in the U. S. National Herbarium (Field Mus. photograph No. 8686). Radicosum alludes to the numerous roots supposedly produced by the plant. Stems rooting at base, leafy toward tip; leaf blades elliptic-oblong, up to 16 cm. long and 6 cm. wide, acutish at apex, narrowed at base and decurrent on the petiole; petioles slender, up to 4 cm. long; peduncles up to 8 cm. long, simple or forked; spikes lax, up to 5 cm. long, the bracts lanceolate, spreading, acuminate, bearing a pair of small marginal teeth near the apex, ciliate. Specimen not seen. Description compiled from the original and the dimensions computed from the photograph. The type locality as given by Nees is confusing. As Moritz is not known to have collected in Colombia his No. 1273 most likely came from the Venezuela side in the general vicinity of Maracaibo, Zulia. Since the species however may actually occur in the adjacent Santa Marta Mountains of Colombia, it has been included in the present treatment.