CoLoBIA: Departamento de Cundinamarca. Macizo de Bogota, Quebrada 
Chicé, near Bogota, 2700-2750 m. May 3, 1946. R. E. Schultes et M. Villarreal 
7096. —Siberia. Paramo de Palacios, 9,000—10,000 feet. July 13, 1960. R. E. 
Schultes 22477. 
The burning wood of this low shrub is said to give off a smoke 
that is extremely irritating to the membranes, causing painful 
swelling of the nasal passages. 
Cephaelis barcellana (Muell.- Arg.) Standley in Publ. Field Mus. 
Nat. Hist. Bot. 8 (1930) 184. 
CoLomBIA: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Vaupés, Cerro Mitu. “Bracts red. 
Flowers yellow. Height 8 feet. In white sand.” September 27—October 30, 1966. 
R. E. Schultes, R. F. Raffauf et D. Soejarto 24222. 
All parts of this plant are alkaloid-positive with a Dragendorff 
spot test. 
Duroia sp. 
Amongst the Kofans, who refer to the plant as kayhi-chu- 
sehe ’-pa, a cold-water infusion of the stems is drunk as a cough 
remedy (H. V. Pinkley 249, cited in Pinkley: loc. cit.). 
Pentagonia sp. 
The Kofans are accustomed to place the pulp around the seeds 
into fresh cuts to keep the flesh from becoming infected. The 
Kofan name is mankuyahet-chu-sehe ‘-pa (H. V. Pinkley 248, 
cited in Pinkley: loc. cit.). 
S AMBUCACEAE 
Sambucus sp. 
The Kofans boil the young leaves and inflorescences to prepare 
a drink which is taken while hot for pains in the sides from 
coughing (H. V. Pinkley 40/, cited in Pinkley: loc. cit.). The 
Kofan name is sa-oco-sehe ‘-pa. 
Leucoanthocyanins (Gibbs: loc. cit. 2 (1974) 1266) and an 
alkaloid (Raffauf: loc. cit. (1970) ) have been reported from the 
genus. 
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