CoLomMBIA: Comisaria del Putumayo, Rio Sucumbios, Quebrada Conejo. 
April 2-5, 1942. R.E. Schultes 3538. 
Justicia ideogenes is one of the Kofan Indian remedies for a 
condition leading to a palsy-like trembling, usually associated 
with age. The whole plant is boiled in water, and the drink is 
poured warm with friction over the lower arms and the feet. 
The Kofan name of J. ideogenes is mee-ré-kd-sé-pa and chu- 
ru-ko-pu. 
Justicia pectoralis Jacquin, Enum. Pl. Carib. (1760) 11. 
BRAZIL: Territorio do Roraima, Posto Mucajai, Rio Mucajat. “Secondary 
forest by airstrip. Herb. Petals blue, stamens white.’’ March 21, 1971. G.T. 
Prance, W.C. Steward, J.F. Ramos et O.P. Monteiro 111 74. 
According to the collectors, this plant is ‘used by Indians for 
hallucinogenic & snuff’. It is called by the Uaicd-Mucajai 
paxararok, 
Justicia pectoralis Jacquin var. stenophylla Leonard in Contrib. 
U.S. Nat. Herb. 31(1951)615. 
BRAZIL: Estado do Amazonas, Rio Cauaburi, Maturaca. Waika=mashihiri. 
July 5- August 12, 1967. R.E. Schultes 24573 (Alpha-Helix Amazon Expendi- 
tion, 1967) 
Territorio do Roraima, Rio Tototobi, Waika village of Wayhana-oo-thle, 
August 6, 1967. R.E. Schultes 24627 (Alpha-Helix Amazon Expedition, 
1967). 
Justicia pectoralis var. stenophylla is extensively cultivated 
in Waika villages. The leaves are dried, pulverized and added 
to the powdered “resin” of Virola theiodora (Spr. ex Benth.) 
Warb. in the preparation of the hallucinogenic snuff known in 
the region as epena ornyakwana (Schultes, R.E. and B. Holm- 
stedt: Rhodora 70( 1968) 113-160). 
It is possible, even probable, that this plant — as well as 
other species of Justica — may be used alone, without admix- 
ture, by various groups of the Waika in Brazil and Venezuela as 
the source of an hallucinogenic snuff (Schultes, R.E. in Efron, 
D. [Ed.] Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs 
(1967) 303; Chagnon, N., P. Le Quesne and J. Cook: Acta 
Cient. Venez. 21(1970)186-193). 
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