Abstract
A report in an Ecuadorian anthropological monograph that Petunia violacea was used as a hallucinogen by some native South American people under the name Shanin. (Alvear, 1971) stimulated interest in the ethnobotanical literature (Schultes, 1975). This was particularly interesting because the species is a member of the alkaloid-rich Solanaceae family. No reports of its containing alkaloids have been published to date (Raffauf, 1970). We have unsuccessfully attempted to isolate an alkaloid from this plant grown in the greenhouse, and recently interviewed the author of the original report. This communication will summarize the results of the laboratory work and the interview.
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