the Brugmansias in southern Colombia. Brugmansia vulcani- 
cola, moreover, is endemic to the highlands of southern Co- 
lombia, being especially abundant and possibly having origi- 
nated in the region of the Volcan de Puracé, not far from the 
location of Silvia in the Departamento del Cauca. 
We believed at first that the drawing might possibly repre- 
sent another solanaceous hallucinogen of southern Colombia: 
lochroma fuchsioides (HBK.) Miers. Careful study, however, 
indicates that, even though this species is likewise called bor- 
rachero, such an identification would be extremely tenuous 
and open to grave doubt. The flowers, for example, are drawn 
as though borne singly, while in Jochroma fuchsioides they 
occur in multiflorous clusters. Furthermore, the shape and 
texture of the fruits are so far from the condition of the bacca of 
Tochroma fuchsioides with its enlarged, persistent calyx as to 
present serious problems in attributing the differences to artis- 
tic license. 
Brugmansia vulcanicola was described in 1959 on the basis 
of material collected on the northern slopes of the Volcan de 
Puracé in Cauca, Colombia, between 7000 and 8400 feet. This 
locality is not far from Silvia. In this region, the plant is ex- 
tremely abundant. Natives of the region indicated that it was 
used ‘‘in olden times’’ as an hallucinogenic narcotic by In- 
dians, but the acculturated peasants now living in the type 
locality do not utilize it. Ten or twelve years later, however, 
when additional botanical collections were made in the type 
locality, botanists found that local residents were assiduously 
destroying the population because of the initiation of a new 
industry, bee-keeping, and the fear that the presence of these 
toxic flowers could damage the honey produced in the region. 
It has been thought that Brugmansia vulcanicola might rep- 
resent an endemic of the region of Purace, but collections have 
also been made near the Laguna La Cocha, above El Encanto, 
between 9000 and 11,000 feet, in the Departamento de Narino, 
east of the city of Pasto in southern Colombia. Whether or not 
the plants growing in this more southern locality, which is a 
tourist centre, are the result of introductions from the localities 
near Puracé cannot be ascertained. It is our suspicion that 
perhaps they may have been introduced because of their hor- 
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