Fruit ellipsoidal, 3.7 X 23 cm, ripening red. Monoecious", January 28- 



February 7, 1969. Plowman, Lockwood, Kennedy et Schultes 2369. 



Peru: Departamento del Amazonas, Rio Cenepa, Quebrada Huampami. May 



1973. Kayap 819. 



The local name of Cayaponia glandulosa is reported to be 

 yuwish in the Rio Cenepa region of Peru. The Tikunas of the 

 Rio Loretoyacu chop up the fruits and boil them into a tea 

 which is taken to relieve "liver complaints." They also dry and 

 powder the leaves and young stems of this vine to prepare an 

 insect renellent dust for use in hammocks and clothes. 



Cayaponia kathematophora R. E. Schultes in Bot. Mus. Leafl. 

 Harvard Univ. 20 (1964) 339. 



This extensive vine is cultivated by the Indians in the middle 

 course of the Rio Apaporis of Colombia for its unusually large, 

 shining, brown seeds which, when hollowed out, are employed 

 in the manufacture of anklets and necklaces. The Makunas 

 know the plant as ka'-moo-ka. The Taiwanos call it pa-moo'-pa. 

 In the Kabuyari language, it is wa'-cha; in Puinave way-yot'; and 



Matap 



phthalmica R. E. Schultes in Bot. Mus 



( 1 964) 



ophthalmica is em 



preparing a soothing wash for treating conjunctivitis, without a 

 doubt the most widespread disease amongst the Indians of the 

 northwest Amazon. The vine, a strong heliophile, is frequently 

 cultivated by Indians in the basin of the Rio Apaporis of 

 Colombia. Like so many cultivated plants of these Indians, it 



almost w 

 Manihot 



medicinal 



A spot test for alkaloids with Dragendorff reagent indicates 



m 



Cayaponia Ruizii Cogniaux in A. et C. DeCandolle, Monogr. 

 Phan. 3(1881)794. 



Colombia: Comisaria del Putumayo, Rio Guamues, Santa Rosa. November 

 28, 1966. Pinkley564. 



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