COLOMBIA: Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Amazonas, Puerto Narifio. 
“Espina.” October 14, 1972. L. L. Glenboski C-91. 
According to Glenboski, the inhabitants of the Rio Loretoyacu 
area of the Trapécio Amazonico make a decoction of the pith of 
the stem to treat earaches. 
Solanum straminifolium Jacquin, Misc. 2 (1781) 298. 
CoLomBIA: Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Caqueta, La Pedrera. April 1944. 
R. E. Schultes 5883. Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Apaporis, mouth of Rio Pacoa. 
June 17, 1951. R. E. Schultes et I. Cabrera 12586.— Rio Vaupés, Paracuara. 
November 27, 1952. R. Romero-Castanieda 3777. 
The Kuripako name of this edible-fruited shrub is mai-ya ’-vee. 
The Tukanos of the Rio Vaupés know it as efo-paa. 
The Mirafia Indians who live near La Pedrera crush the leaves 
of Solanum straminifolium and apply them as a poultice to 
severe burns. 
Solanum subinerme Jacquin, Enum. PI. Carib. (1760) 15. 
COLOMBIA: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Vaupés, Mitu. “Height 4-5 feet. 
Flowers blue-purple. Weedy.” September 27—October 30, 1966. R. E. Schultes, 
R. F. Raffauf et D. Soejarto 24244. 
Dragendorff test of the leaves of Solanum subinerme was 
positive for alkaloids. 
Solanum Topiro Humboldt et Bonpland ex Dunal, Solan. Syn 
(1816) 10. 
CoLomBIA: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Apaporis, mouth of Rio Pacoa. June 
17, 1951. R. E. Schultes et I. Cabrera 12602. 
The Kuripako Indian name of this widely cultivated edible- 
fruited species of Solanum is ma-re ‘-da. 
Solanum verbascifolium Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. (1753) 184. 
CoLomBIA: Comisaria del Putumayo, Mocoa. December 3-7, 1942. R. E. 
Schultes et C. E. Smith 2035.— Comisaria del Amazonas, Rio Caqueta, La 
Pedrera. April 1944. R. E. Schultes 5878. — Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Vaupés, 
Cerro Mitu. “Herb up to 3 feet. Flowers white. Leaves used for washing; 
asperous.” September 27—-October 30, 1966. R. E. Schultes, R. F. Raffauf et D. 
Soejarto 24228. 
