Cotomspia: Comisaria del Putumayo, Rio Putumayo, Puerto Ospina. 
**Vine. Stem employed as ingredient in arrow-poison. Kofaén name: 
u-su-se-é-pa.’” April 25, 1942, Richard Evans Schultes 3692.—Same 
locality and date. ““Vine. Root used to make arrow-poison. Kofan 
name: fee-see-pd-chu.’’ Richard Evans Schultes 3695. 
Strychnos Peckii B. L. Robinson in Proc. Am. 
Acad. 49 (1918) 504. 
This is the second collection of Strychnos Peckii from 
Colombian Amazonia. It is one of the preferred species 
amongst the Kofan Indians for preparing arrow-poison. 
Cotoms1a: Comisaria de] Putumayo, Rio Putumayo, Puerto Ospina. 
“Vine. Root used in arrow-poison. Kofan name: su-he-sé-pa.’’ April 
25, 1942, Richard Evans Schultes 3684. 
Strychnos subcordata Spruce ex Bentham in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. 1 (1856) 106. 
This species has never been reported from Colombia. 
It is considered one of the strongest of the curare ingre- 
dients by the Kofan Indians. 
Cotoms1A: Comisaria del Putumayo, Rio Putumayo, Puerto Ospina. 
“*Vine. Root used in arrow-poison formula. Kofaén name: su-sé-pe.”’ 
April 25, 1942, Richard Evans Schultes 3687. 
APOCYNACEAE 
Himatanthus articulata (Vah/) Woodson in Ann. 
Missouri Bot. Gard. 25 (19837) 196. 
The collection cited below is apparently the second 
from Colombia, the first being Cuatrecasas 9001 from 
Florencia, capital of the Comisaria del Caquetaé. The 
species is rather widespread in the Guianas, Amazonian 
Brazil, the Orinoco drainage-area of Venezuela and in 
Middle America. 
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CotompBia: Comisaria del Vaupés, Cerro Chiribiquete. Flowers 
white.’’? January, 1944, Richard Evans Schultes 5735, 
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