Studying material grown at Bogota, Theilkuhl tound 
62.7 per cent of the flowers to be bilocular, the remainder 
being trilocular, a rare condition in the Solanaceae. With 
regard to the possible failure to form fruit, it is interest- 
ing to note that, in Bogota, the styles *‘usually begin to 
wilt before the opening of the anthers’’, thus eliminating 
the possibility of self fertilization (85). 
Schultes recalled his lost collections of fruit as fusiform 
and about six inches in length, “‘very like the fruit of 
DD). suaveolens” (29). This description, and the observa- 
tions of both 2- and 3-locular ovaries suggest the fruits 
of D. candida * Biangan’. 
The possibility ofa hybrid origin cannot be eliminated, 
but it is clear that ‘Culebra’ is not morphologically in- 
termediate between JD. candida and either 1. suaveolens 
or D. sanguinea. 
Common names: Jlutscuat borrachera, culebra borra- 
chera. 
Mutscuai (IKKamsi) and euvlebra (Spanish) mean ‘snake’, 
in reference to the long slender leaves. 
Reports (29) of other names applicable to this cultivar 
arise either from uninformed natives (to many, the trees 
are little known though a subject of curiosity), or from 
misunderstandings in widely ranging conversation (in- 
formed individuals may discuss much more than the in- 
formation solicited, perhaps without the interrogator’s 
awareness). 
Cotompia: Comisaria del Putumayo, Valle de Sibundoy, alt. 2200 
m.—Los alrededores de Sibundoy. ** Nombre kamsa :kinde-borrachera. 
Nombre castellano: culebra borrachera. Used in Sibundoy by Kamsa 
Indians as a divinatory narcotic and poison.’’ 16-I1-1942, Schultes 
3200 (COL, ECON, US). Cotype Methysticodendron Amesianum R.E, 
Schultes. )--Sibundoy. ** “Culebra borrachero’. In garden near house 
of an Indian herb doctor. Erect shrub 3-4 m. tall, fls. white, some- 
what irregular. Plant apparently sterile, as old fls. seem to drop off, 
and the people say it never sets fruit. Planted here, not seen wild.’’ 
30-11-1943, Fosberg 20406 (US).—**Tree 20 ft. tall. Cult. in Indian 
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