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ECONOMIC BOTANY Devoted to Past, Present, and Future Uses of Plants by People Founded by Edmund H. Fulling Publication of The Society for Economic Botany VOLUME 56 2002 Published for The Society THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN PRESS Printed by Allen Press, Inc. Lawrence, Kansas Contents cacao) among the Mopan Maya. Mi- Collections Corner chael K. Steinberg Out of the Museum Darkness: A Mid- A New Approach to Consider the Pol- 19th Century Bark Drawing from Vic- len Variable in Forecasting Yield Mod- toria, Australia. Caroline D. Servaes els. Marco Fornaciari, Luca Pieroni, and Hew D.V. Prendergast Fabio Orlandi, and Bruno Romano Research Local Knowledge of Biotic Diversity and its Conservation in Rural Hausa- Cover Article: The Use, Construction, land, Northern Nigeria. Nina L. Etkin and Importance of Canoes Among the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon. Mi- Notes on Economic Plants chael P. Gilmore, W. Hardy Eshbaugh, and Adolph M. Greenberg 89 Capoche-Rediscovery of a Forgotten Making and Marketing Chambira Febrifuge (Ocotea veraguensis [Meisn.} Hammocks and Bags in the Village of Mez) from Belize, Central America, Including a New Floristic Record. Mi- Brillo Nuevo, Northeastern Peru. Jaa- chael J. Balick, Daniel E. Atha, Sarah na Vormisto Canham, and Leopoldo Romero Variation in Hypericins from Wild Populations of Hypericum perforatum The History of /xtle in Mexico. Tamara L. in the Pacific Northwest of the Ticktin U.S.A. Tara M. Sirvent, Loren Walker, Nan Vance, and Donna M. Gibson Departments Why “Bitter”? Cassava? Productivity From the Editor of “Bitter”? and “‘Sweet’’ Cassava in a Tukanoan Indian Settlement in the Book Reviews Northwest Amazon. Warren M. Wilson 2001 DEB Award Presentation, ‘“Jn- and D. L. Dufour terpreting pre-western Hawaiian culture The Globalization of a Ceremonial as an Ethnobotanist,” by Isabella Aiona Tree: the Case of Cacao (Theobroma Abbott Contents Collections Corner taua, Arecaceae) in an Indigenous Managed Reserve. Christopher Miller Useful Marine Monocots—More Col- Chinanteco Management of Aechmea lections Than Data? Hew D.V. Pren- magdalenae: Implications for the Use dergast of TEK and TRM in Management Plans. Tamara Ticktin and Timothy Research Johns Genetic Resources of Primitive Up- Cover Article: Botanical Determina- land Rice in Laos. R. Ishikawa, S. Ya- tion of the Middle Eastern Tree of manaka, K. Kanyavong, Y. Fukuta, Y- Life. J. Andrew McDonald I. Sato, L. Tang, and T. Sato Use Patterns and Value of Savanna Resources in Three Rural Villages in Notes on Economic Plants South Africa. S. E. Shackleton, C. M. Shackleton, T. R. Netshiluvhi, B. S. 198 The Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.), a Geach, A. Ballance, and D. H. K. Fair- Multipurpose Plant. William H. Out- banks law Jr., Shuqiu Zhang, Kimberly A. Riddle, Arthur K. Womble, Loran C. The Adoption of Rattan Cultivation Anderson, William M. Outlaw, Nedra for Edible Shoot Production in Lao N. Outlaw, Elizabeth C. Outlaw, and PDR and Thailand—From Non Tim- Anne B. Thistle ber Forest Product to Cash Crop. Tom D. Evans and Khamphone Seng- Ritual Botanicals Against the Evil- dala Eye in Tuscany, Italy. Andrea Pieroni and Maria Elena Giusti Using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLP) to Identify Presence of Diosgenin in Dioscorea Black Cohosh (Actaea racemosa). Ny- batatas (Dioscoreaceae). Adam L. Ed- ree J. C. Zerega, Scott Mori, Charlotte wards, Ronald L. Jenkins, L. J. Dav- Lindqvist, Qunyi Zheng, and Timothy enport, and James A. Duke J. Motley Departments Fruit Production of the Ungurahua Palm (Oenocarpus bataua subsp. ba- Book Reviews Contents Collections Corner 260 The Identification of Xanthorrhoea Resins by Starch Morphology: Pros- Changes with Willow in North Atlan- pects for Archaeological and Taxo- tic Ana- and Catadromous Fish nomic Applications. J. F. Parr Traps. Hew D.V. Prendergast and Ju- The Gaharu Trade in Indonesia: Is It lia Steele Sustainable? Tonny Soehartono and Adrian C. Newton Research Cover Article: A Paradise for Eco- Notes on Economic Plants nomic Botanists: The Eden Project. Ghillean T. Prance 285 Bioactive Constituents of Alaskan Devil’s Root (Oplopanax horridus, Plant Use Knowledge of the Winikina Araliaceae). James D. Bloxton II, Ara Warao: The Case for Questionnaires Der Marderosian, and Ron Gibbs in Ethnobotany. Alfredo Gomez-Beloz Plant Products in Some Tribal Mar- The Use of Glycine tomentella Hayata kets of Central India. Vivek Kumar on the Islet of Kinmen (Quemoy). and Sudhanshu K. Jain Theodore Hymowitz, and Jaw Shu Hsieh The Palm Wine Trade in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Production, Income, Departments and Social Construction. Aiah R. Lebbie and Raymond P. Guries Book Reviews Ethnobotanical Studies on Some Pte- ridophytes of Southern Nigeria. Ma- Ghillean T. Prance, 2002 Distin- ria O. Nwosu guished Economic Botanist Contents Collections Corner table. Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Alvaro Molina-Cruz Betula Makes Music in Europe: 366 Germination Ecology of Cassava Three Birch Horns from Kew’s Eco- (Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphor- nomic Botany Collections. Jenny biaceae) in Traditional Agroecosys- McCune and Hew D. V. Prendergast tems: Seed and Seedling Biology of a Vegetatively Propagated Domesticat- Research ed Plant. Benoit Pujol, Guillaume Gi- got, Gérard Laurent, Marina Pinheiro- FEATURE ARTICLE: Acclimatiza- Kluppel, Marianne Elias, Martine tion Trials of Some Solanum Species Hossaert-McKey, and Doyle McKey from Amazonas Venezuela at the Bo- tanical Garden of Padova. N. Rascio, Ethnobotany of the Wild Mexican A. Camani, L. Sacchetti, I. Moro, G. Cucurbitaceae. Rafael Lira and Ja- Cassina, F. Torres, E. M. Cappelletti, vier Caballero and M. G. Paoletti Why Are Rags Tied to Sacred Trees Notes on Economic Plants of the Holy Land? Amots Dafni 399 Is Allium kurrat the Leek of the Bi- The Doctrine of Signatures in Pres- ble? Lytton John Musselman ent-Day Israel. Amots Dafni and E. Lev Departments Starch Granule Size and the Domes- Book Reviews tication of Manioc (Manihot esculen- Books Received ta) and Sweet Potato (Ipomoea bata- Index to Volume 56: Book Reviewers tas). Linda Perry Index to Book Reviews The Ethnobotany of Chaya (Cnidos- Index to Volume 56: Authors and Ti- colus aconitifolius ssp. aconitifolius tles of Papers Breckon): A Nutritious Maya Vege- Index to Volume 56: Subjects