Some 25 species of Pernettya are known from Tasmania, New 
Zealand, the highlands from Mexico to Chile, the Galapagos 
and the Falkland Islands. 
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Gomortegaceae 
Gomortega R. & P. 
Gomortega Keule (Mol.) I. M. Johnst., an endemic of Chile, 
where it has the Mapuche Indian names keule or hualhual, may 
once have been employed as a narcotic (Schultes 1970c). Its 
fruits are intoxicating, especially when fresh, due possibly to an 
essential oil. There is only this single species in the whole family 
Gomortegaceae. 
Himantandraceae 
Galbulimima F. M. Bailey 
In Papua, the leaves and bark of agara, Galbulimima Belgrav- 
eana (F. Muell.) Sprague, are taken with the leaves of a species 
of Homalomena to induce a violent intoxication that progresses 
into a sleep in which visions and dreams are experienced (Barrau 
1958). Several uncharacterized isoquinoline alkaloids have been 
isolated from this plant, but the specific pharmacology of the 
constituents is not clear. (Willaman and Schubert 1961). 
Two or three species of Ga/bulimima occur in eastern Malay- 
sia and northeastern Australia. 
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