is one of several kinds of fish poison: the most common 
of these is timbdé (Lonchocarpus sp.).. Nimuendajti, in a 
brief discussion of contraceptives and abortifacients used 
by Apinayé women, mentioned the successful use of 
“the root of a plant called feb-gande (fish medicine), ”” 
but only for abortion (1989: 98). 
Yet a fourth name given to this Simaba is tehuru- 
tchuru. It is also the Cayapo name fora very large green 
grasshopper. | have no translation for fehuru-tehuru, 
which may simply be imitative of the grasshopper’s song, 
nor can | offer any reason why both plant and insect 
share the same name unless, as is sometimes true of 
Cayapo terminology, the particular species of grasshop- 
per is known to preter a diet of the Simaba. 
I wish to thank Dr. Richard Evans Schultes and Dr. 
Arthur Cronquist for assistance in botanical aspects of 
this work. A voucher specimen of the Simaba is pre- 
served in the Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames in 
the Botanical Museum of Harvard University. 
Field work was supported by a National Institute of 
Mental Health Research Grant No. MH-6087 awarded 
to my husband, ‘Terence S. ‘Turner, whose help and ad- 
vice | gratefully acknowledge. 
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