Concerning this list we now point out certain discrep- 
ancies that one of us (Heim) noted in the course of his 
inquiries in the village of Kondambi. 
To begin with, No. 6—miru nonda—seems to be not 
one but two species, neither of which appears to answer 
to the description made above: the term muiru refers to 
fleshy and woody agarics: a Mlammula and an Armil- 
lariella (the latter bearing a synonym berraip nonda). 
The term seems to be a collective. We are not certain 
of having collected nonda obolyei, whose scientific iden- 
tity escapes us, although we can say that it is a Boletus 
near to B. nigerrimus Heim. The nonda tuburam, ex- 
ceedingly common, is the ‘‘cépe’’ that is most eaten, both 
raw and cooked, and it plays no role in the madness. 
Similarly, the ronda to/hangi is an excellent Caesar’s 
amanita (in French: oronge), a choice dish among the 
Kkuma, without psychotropic action, real or pretended, 
according to our own experience. As for the nonda 
mbogl rongal, it might be the nonda mbopukhl tongahl or 
tongark, which is none other than the Psalliota aurantio- 
violacea Heim, an African and New Guinea species, con- 
sidered very toxic, even lethal. On the other hand we 
add without hesitation to Miss Reay’s new list the name 
of a Heimiella that is of fairly frequent occurrence in the 
Wahgi, known as nonda mbolbe, No. 8 in Danga’s list, 
whose testimony we confirmed at Kondambi. We should 
add that it is not a question of Heimiella retispora, which 
the investigators of Kew suspected among the specimens 
sent to them, but of a very different species already de- 
scribed by Heim. 
In conclusion here is the list of the seven species linked 
to the ‘madness’ that Heim noted and described at Kon- 
dambi and later examined and definitively characterized 
in Paris." 
10 mr . . . . . . 
hese lines were written when there arrived in Paris a shipment 
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