intoxicating blend of plants that included, in addition to San 

 Pedro {Trichocereus Pachanoi), "el Pedillanthus titmahides sp. 

 [sic] {cimora misha or 'planta magica'), la Isotoma longiflorum 

 [sic] {cimora toro or misha veneno), la Datura stramonium {el 

 chamico)". In addition to these, he referred to a number of 

 unidentified plant additives by their vernacular names, including 

 "la cimora misha blanca, la cimora misha curandera, la cimora 

 misha rastrera, la cimora misha galga, la cimora misha 

 huaquera, la cimora misha adivadora, la cimora misha amarilla, 

 la cimora misha morada". Friedberg (1960: 25) disagreed with 

 Cruz-Sanchez and stated that cimora "is not a drink composed 

 with a cactus but is a plant of the Amaranthaceae in the genus 

 Iresine". She also identified the vernacular name misha as 

 specifically applying to the solanaceous Datura arhorea. In the 

 same paper, however, she stated that San Pedro or Huachuma, 

 as it is known in the northern sierra, had three locally recognised 

 varieties: "/o curandera, la huachuma misha and la huachuma 

 rastrera". When Schultes (1967) reviewed the problem, he cited 

 an earlier paper of Friedberg (1959) in which Iresine is referred 

 to as timora, a "magic and dangerous herb" (Friedberg 1959: 

 443). Friedberg (1959: 448) also reported that a number of 

 varieties of Datura arborea — misha — are identified by 

 various animal names which she did not specify. She did 

 mention three locally recognized forms oi timora — timora lanza, 

 sehoY\\.di, and sanguracha. Schultes (1967: 39), not surprisingly, 

 questioned whether cimora and timora might not be two forms 

 of the same word. The anthropologists Sharon (1972, 1978) and 

 Dobkin de Rios (1968, 1969, 1977) simply repeated Friedberg's 

 earlier determinations without reference to new voucher speci- 

 mens. Schultes and Hofmann (1980) consider cimora a beverage 

 made up of a number of plants (sensu Cruz-Sanchez 1948); but 

 as authorities they cited Dobkin de Rios (1977) and Friedberg 

 (1959). Dobkin de Rios (1977) made no mention of cimora and 

 Friedberg (1959) used the term timora, not cimora. This minor 

 oversight on the part of Schultes is understandable because 

 Friedberg (1980: 38) used the two terms interchangeably, both 

 again in reference to the amaranthaceous genus Iresine. ' 



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