Cotomsia: Comisaria del Putumayo, Rio Putumayo, Puerto Ospina. 
“*Vine. Bark of stem rasped and used for arrow-poison. Kofin name: 
ee-ru-che.’’ April 25, 1942, Richard Evans Schultes 3682.—Same lo- 
cality and date. ‘*Vine. Root used in arrow-poison, Kofaén name: 
see-a-se-sep.’’ Richard Evans Schultes 3682.—Same locality and date. 
““Vine. Pieces of stem used in preparing Kofan arrow-poison. Kofan 
name: mun-tai-ri-chee.’’ Richard Evans Schultes 3685. 
Strychnos guianensis (4ub/.) Martius Syst. Mat. 
Med. Bras. (1848) 121. 
Known from Colombia previously from one collection 
made in the Rio Vaupés, Strychnos guianensis is now 
registered from the southwesternmost point of the Am- 
azon basin of Colombia where it serves the Kofin Indians 
as one of the lesser ingredients in arrow-poisons. 
Cotomsi1A: Comisaria del Putumayo, Rio Putumayo, Puerto Ospina. 
ee e . . 4 , 99 
Vine. Root used in preparing curare. Kofin name: ku-see-ye-hé-pa. 
April 25, 1942, Richard Evans Schultes 3688. 
Strychnos javariensis Avrukoff in Brittonia 4 
(1942) 279. 
The following collections are apparently the first to be 
recorded from Colombia. The species is one of the lesser 
ingredients of Kofan curare. 
Cotompra: Comisaria del Putumayo, Rio Putumayo, Puerto Ospina. 
‘*Vine. Root used in arrow-poison. Kofan name: tzu-se-hé-pa.’’ April 
25, 1942, Richard Evans Schultes 8690.—Same locality and date. 
**Vine. Root used in Kofan arrow-poison.’’ Richard Evans Schultes 
3691. 
Strychnos Jobertiana Bail/on in Adansonia 12 
(1879) 367. 
Although previously reported from two localities in 
the Colombian Amazonia, Strychnos Jobertiana is now 
known to be very abundant in the upper Putumayo 
basin and to be one of the preferred ingredients of curare 
amongst the Kofan Indians. 
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