TABLE I. 



Parcira Brava Commercial Samples in the Har\ard Wood Col- 

 lection, sent by E. R. Squibb, M.I)., in 1877. 



Pr. .St/////'/' \ Hen yard W'oolI 

 Panel .\unihcr Co/la fii>n h 'I'lrxcfnoniii Atlhiilv luicl C'oninicnl.s* 



**N(). I Aw 33441 Ahum hrc\ili>lia Kiuk(>IT& Moldciikc oi /I. 



i)lH)\'a}a Dicls. froni the Amazon I^clla ami 

 ctKistal regions o{ noilhcrn South Anici ica: oi 

 A. pafiurcnsis Fichlcr. from ncai Maiiaiis. 

 Brazil. 



No. 2 Aw 33442 could he Cisscniipclos Parcira \ . 



No. 3 Au 33443 most prohahls Ahuia rujcscens Auhlct. 



No. 4 Au 33444 Sciailoicnia sp.; might be Si iac/ownla 



caycnncnsls Hcnth., Sc. paraciisis (l-ichl.) 

 Dicls or Sc. sai^ofiaua (Ijchl.) Dicls. all 

 growing in the coastal areas, and much alike 

 in their anatonn . 



*Ta\onomic aflinities aiid comments courtes\ o\ Dr. A. M. W. Mennega, 

 Rijksuniversileil. Utrecht. The Netherlands. 



**Commercial sample from Sqtnbb to whicii the cerlilicate a\ aulhenticit\' 

 applies {.sec Folate 2 and Transcription #2). 



well-founded, since this sample consists entirely of stem pieces 

 derived from a species of Ahuia (Plate 3). 



Squibb's Specimen parcel No. 3 is "the Parcira Brava of the 

 N.Y. market about 1865 to 1869", and he noted that "when 

 black pieces appeared among these about 1 869, they were at first 

 supposed to be a different substance''; however, he soon realized 

 that this earlier lot had been a mixture of "stem and root'\ 

 whereas the more recent, parcel No. 3 contained only pieces of 

 the stem (cf. Squibb, 1872). In his note which accompanied this 

 individual parcel, Squibb accurateh referred to the material as 

 what he "supposed to be the woody stem of true Pareira Brava'\ 

 Dr. Mennega noted that this is probably Ahuta rufe.scens, a 

 liana often referred to as ** Pareira brava roui^c*'. This species 

 also had been described by Hanbury (1873) as a third "sort" of 

 pareira brava, but one which he had never seen in commerce. It 

 appears as though Squibb, similarly, had never encountered this 

 species in the market, since he made no mention of it as one 



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