euphorbiaceous Pedilanthus tithymaloides Poit. as well as the 

 campanulaceous Hippobroma longiflora (L.) G. Don. (= Iso- 

 toma longiflora L.). Since I was unable to collect voucher speci- 

 mens of the latter two species, the complete meaning of the term 

 cimora still remains somewhat unrertni'n «lr>iiiiit^c /iqa-?. -iq\ :„ 



cimora 



"Here is one of the most challenging problems in the ethnobotany 

 of hallucmogenic plants, and one which would not be difficult to 

 investigate thoroughly." 



Today, nearly fifteen years later, and despite the attention that 

 numerous ethnobotanists and anthropologists have given the 

 Huancabamba cults, this fundamental clarification remains to 



mad 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The field work reported here was funded in part by the Social 



umanities 



Fellowship) and in part by the Inter-American Foundation and 

 the Atkins Fund of Harvard University. I would like to thank 

 Dr. Michael Dillon, Dr. Timothy Plowman, Ms. Penny 

 Matekaitis, Dr. Allan Zimmerman, and Mr. Steven Clements 

 for identifying specimens and Prof. Richard Evans Schultes for 

 reviewing the manuscript. During the fieldwork, I was ably 



M 



to don 



who received and sheltered me in Huancabamba and at Las 

 Huaringas and who shared with me their remarkable spiritual 

 insight. Voucher specimens are deposited in the Economic 

 Botany Herbarium of Oakes Ames at the Botanical Museum 



Chicago. 



Museum 



LITERATURE CITED 



Cobo, B. 1956. Historia del Nuevo Mundo. Obras del P. Bernabe Cobo 

 vols. 1, 2. Edited by P. Francisco Mateo. Biblioteca de Autores 

 Espanoles, vols. 91 92. Madrid: Ediciones Atlas 



Cruz-S^nchez. G. 1948. "Informe sobre las aplicaciones de la Cimora en el 

 norte del Peru." Rev. Farmacol. Med. Exper. 1(2): 253-258. 



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