cultivated door\ard plants, a number of which were commonly 

 introduced species that the Waorani do not grow(Pickle\, 1973). 

 The Waorani specimens include no fewer than 44 regularly eaten 

 wild foods and only 19 cultivated or semi-cultivated plants. 



In the following compilation, the families of \ascular plants are 

 arranged according to the Engler and Prantl system; and the 

 genera are arranged alphabetically under the families. The lower 

 plants are in alphabetical order by family. Complete sets of 

 \ oucher specimens have been deposited at the Economic Herba- 

 rium of Oakes Ames of Harvard University and the herbarium of 

 the Universidad Catolica, Quito, Ecuadoi". All collections were 

 made by Davis and Yost in the environs of the clearing of 

 Quiwdo, near the confluence of the Rios Quawado and liwaeno 

 (Ty'M'W, P50'S) in eastern Ecuador. The collection numbers 

 are those of E.W. Davis. 



To aid future investigators, our collecting assistants ha\e been 

 identified byname, sex and sub-dialect. In some instances, once a 

 plant was collected, a variety of informants, representing all of the 

 three major subdialects, were interviewed to \erlf\ the plant's use. 

 As an aid to approximating pronunciation of the vernacular 

 names, we have used a modified phonemic orthography easily 

 followed by the non-linguist. Consonants are pronounced as in 

 Spanish. Vowels are pronounced as follows: "a"pronounced as in 

 English f^fther, 'Y"^s iti cat,'M"as in m^*^t,''e"as in p/n or h/t, ''o'" 

 as in hope, sho^^or pwt, and ''ng"as in si/;^^or ha/7ger. If a vowel be 

 written twice in succession, it is held fora longer duration. Vowels 

 contiguous to nasal consonants are nasalized. Other vowels may 

 be nasalized as well, but they are not so marked here. For a 

 complete description sec Peeke ( 1973). 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



The work of E. Wade Davis was generously supported by the 

 Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 

 (Doctoral Fellowship) and the Interamerican Foundation (Mas- 

 ter's Fellowship); and James Yost's work was conducted under 

 the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. In addition to 

 determinations by E. Wade Davis, we received extensive coopera- 



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