to say, some notes overlap more than one category. 
Fifty families of flowering plants are represented 
among these notes. Thirty of these families have yielded 
one note each, which suggests a scattered distribution 
of ethnogynecological uses among the flowering plants. 
‘Twelve families produced two notes each. The Borag- 
inaceae and Labiatae are represented each by three notes, 
the Gramineae by four, the Liliaceae five notes. The 
Leguminosae had six, Huphorbiaceae eight, Compositae 
12 and Rubiaceae 18. 
At least 35% of the plants are said to be eaten or, in 
some form, drunk. Sixteen per cent are made into de- 
coctions or infusions, most of which probably are also 
orally administered. Fourteen per cent are employed 
externally, including in baths. Two per cent are inserted 
vaginally. Thirty-three per cent of the notes do not re- 
veal the modes of employment. 
Seventy per cent of the ethnogynecological notes indi- 
cate the parts of plants used. Roots are said to be used 
in nearly half of these notes. Leaves are designated in 
almost a third. The rest of the notes cite, in order of 
decreasing importance, barks, the entire plant, fruits, 
flowers and latex. 
Of the 87 genera represented among these ethnogyn- 
ecological notes, 33 are virtually unknown economically. 
Three quarters of the species are similarly unknown for 
economic purposes of any sort. 
I should like to cite some of the field notes associated 
with species of economically obscure genera. As already 
stated, the largest group of ethnogynecological notes 
concerns the puerperium. In this category, sundry spe- 
cies can be cited from the Philippine Islands. For ex- 
ample, Schizostachyum Lumampao (C. O. Frake 567, 
Gramineae) and Nadsura scandens (C. O. Frake 578, 
Schisandraccae) are used as postpartem medicines. The 
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