Telitoxicum peruvianum Moldenke in Britt. 3 (1938) 45. 
COLOMBIA: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Piraparana, Cano Teemeena (Lobo 
Igarapé). ‘‘Small tree. Fruit dark green, Barasana name = bo-de’-mee-see.”’ 
September 10, 1952. R. E. Schultes et I. Cabrera 17340. 
The bark of this treelet is the main ingredient in one of the 
Barasana curares. 
This species was described from Amazonian Peru. 
ANNONACEAE 
Guatteria calva R. E. Fried in Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., ser. 3, 
24, No. 10 (1948) 9. 
COLOMBIA: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Vaupes, Mitu and vicinity, Urania. 
On granite slope. ‘‘Small tree, 20 feet. Flowers green, petals leathery. 
Leaves, bark, flowers very alkaloid-positive. Fruit slightly positive.’’ Sep- 
tember 27—October 20, 1966. R. E. Schultes, R. F. Raffauf et D. Soejarto 
24323. 
The Kubeo Indians indicate that the bark of the stem or trunk 
of this small tree is an ingredient of a type of curare which they 
prepared in former years. There were three ingredients, accord- 
ing to informants, but the identity of the other two plants have 
not yet been established beyond the statement that they are 
‘‘leaves of trees.” 
Unonopsis veneficiorum (Mart.) R. E. Fries in Acta Hort. Berg. 
12 (1937) 238. 
COLOMBIA: Comisaria del Vaupeés, Rio Apaporis basin, Rio Pacoa. **Puinave 
name = choon.’’ February 7-12, 1952. R. E. Schultes et I. Cabrera 15269. 
The Barasana Indians, native to the lower Apaporis basin, 
employ the root and the bark of the lower stem of this tree in the 
preparation of an arrow poison. This report represents appar- 
ently the third concerning the role of this plant in curare. The 
Puinave Indians, some of whom have migrated recently into the 
Apaporis basin, are not aware of this use of Unonopsis ve- 
neficiorum, although they know the plant and recognize it as 
‘“‘dangerous.”’ 
This annonaceous species is apparently rather widely utilized. 
in the Colombian Amazonia as the basis of an arrow poison. The 
first report was published by von Martius (Spix, J. B. and K. F. 
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