mon at this high, damp altitude, the witch-doctor will 
sometimes first bathe the whole body of a patient with 
a warm decoction of the leaves and flowers, then smear 
lamb-fat on the chest, back and abdomen. 
The Kamsa name of Methysticodendron, mets-kwai 
borrachero or mits-kway borrachero, means ‘‘intoxicant of 
the jaguar.’’ The term borrachero is a loan-word from 
Spanish, for in southern Colombia and Ecuador a large 
number of solanaceous narcotics are referred to popularly 
as borrachero (borracho = drunken). Notwithstanding the 
meaning of the Kamsa mets-Awai, these Indians refer to 
the plant in Spanish as culebra-borrachero (‘‘intoxicant 
of the snake’’) and not as tigre-borrachero. Another name 
which the Kamsa people apply to the plant is goon’- 
ssi-an borrachero, the meaning of which I could never 
ascertain. The Inga Indians of the Valley of Sibundoy 
call the plant Avn-de-borrachero. 
I wish to acknowledge gratefully the helpful sugges- 
tions of many of my colleagues at Harvard University 
and elsewhere during my study of the material of Methys- 
ticodendron Amesianum. My special appreciation to 
Professor Irving W. Bailey and to Professor Ivan M. 
Johnston is here expressed. The plates which Mr. Elmer 
W. Smith has so painstakingly prepared were made pos- 
sible by a grant from the American Academy of Arts 
and Sciences. 
CoLomsia: Comisaria del Putumayo, Valle de Sibundoy, Sibundoy, 
alt, 2225 m. “‘Treelet 25 feet tall. Cultivated in Indian garden. Used 
as divinatory narcotic. Flowers white, anthers yellow. Culebra borra- 
chera. Kamsa=mits-kway borrachera.”’’? June 30, 1958, Richard Evans 
Schultes & Isidoro Cabrera 20079 (Tyre in Herb. Gray ).—Comisaria 
del Putumayo, Sibundoy, alt. about 6700 feet. ““Treelet 25 feet tall. 
Flowers pendulous, white. Leaves used to prepare a narcotic drink 
for use of witch-doctors in divination. Spanish: culebra borrachera. 
Ingano = kin-de borrachero. Kamsaé= goon-ssi-an borrachero.’’ February 
16, 1942, Richard Evans Schultes 3256.—Comisaria del Putumayo, 
Sibundoy, Valle de Sibundoy. ‘“‘In garden near house of an Indian 
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