Malouetia. Malouetia nitida, Gauchamaca.

Botanical name: 

Malouetia. Malouetia nitida Spruce. Gauchamaca. (Fam. Apocynaceae.)—This plant, of Venezuela, contains an alkaloid, guachamacine, which Kobert believes to be identical with curarine. (A. J. P., 1885, 560.)


The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.