are guarded from other potential owners. A medicine- 
man once stated that he could not afford to be seen near 
an unusual Datura in another man’s garden (6). [If such 
a prohibition is general among the Sibundoy, the tree 
Daturas, however useful, may be increasing at an ex- 
tremely slow rate. The two cultivars thought by the 
Sibundoy to be the most toxic, J. candida *Munchira’ 
and ‘Salaman’, are among the least abundant. 
Common names 
The three linguistic groups of people in the Valley of 
Sibundoy agree in grouping all the Datura cultivars in 
the Spanish term borrachera (‘inebriant’).” However, 
the Sibundoy believe this to be a Kamsa morpheme, not 
a loan word. Ten of the twelve cultivars are discrimi- 
nated verbally, but because of the rarity of several, very 
few Sibundoy can name all ten. To name all ten, one 
must draw words from three languages, but because of 
generalized borrowing among these three, a speaker may 
not be aware of this. Kamsa lacks names for three cul- 
tivars, Inga for two. Table VI gives the common names 
recorded in 1962-63. A full account of the vernacular 
names is given with the taxonomic treatment of the cul- 
tivars. My capabilities did not permit the most precise 
form of phonetic records. Accurate pronunciation will 
be approximated most frequently within the Spanish, 
not the English, phonetic framework. An exception is 
bui-ish which | have written here buyés, conforming with 
the notation of Juajibioy (19). 
gconomue importance 
Both my own investigations and the reports of others 
indicate that the Daturas are used about equally for 
’ Several non-solanaceous, non-psychotropic plants are also called 
borrachera, e.g., lresine celosia L., I. herbstii Hook.f., and other un- 
identified plants. 
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