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woman drinks tea made from the boiled root. Boiled 

 leaf serves as soap; bathers in sweat bath whip body 

 lightly with branches (MG). Root or small branches 

 cut in pieces and made into a tea ; given parturient fol- 

 lowing ejection of afterbirth (MdL). 



d. Otilia Villegas, MG, Manuel de la Luz. 



3. Unknown to informant. 



a. puluS. 



b. Solanum verbascifolium L. Volunteer in abandoned 

 maize fields ; not a monte plant. 



c. Leaves used to scour dishes. Chili seed, artificially 

 germinated prior to planting, wrapped in the leaves. 



d. AM. 



4. Unknown to informants. 



a. pisis. 



b. Araceae family, possibly Xanthosoma sp. Cultivated, 

 c. Edible corms a Lenten dish (p. 156). 



d. AM, Otilia Villegas. 



5. Unknown to informant. 



a. capawate. 



b. Porophyllum ruderale ( Jacq.) Cass. Determined by 



5. F. Blake. Volunteer in maize field. 



c. Edible (p. 161). 



d. AM, ML. 



6. Terba mora. 



a. mu^tututi. 



b. Solanum nigrum L. 



c. Edible (p. 161) (AM, RG) ; not edible, once seeds 

 have formed (ML). Also medicinal, as treatment for 

 disipela ( [sic] erysipelas? "Inflammation, skin turns red, 

 feverish"). Entire plant ground, salt and lime juice 

 added ; three times a day, mixture applied as a compress, 

 covered with castor leaf. In one case, effective when 

 compress of eskuptama 9 (No. 164) unsuccessful (ML). 



d. AM, Rosalino Gonzalez, ML. 



7. Unknown to informant. 



a. sinatuan. 



b. Schoepfia schreberi Gmel. Grows wild. 



c. As remedy, plant boiled, and pimples and boils 

 (granos) bathed four times with liquid (OV). Woman 

 3 months pregnant bathes, either in bouse or sweat bath, 

 with liquid in which leaf has been boiled ; this informant 

 not aware that plant is a remedy for pustules (MG). 



d. Otilia Villegas, MG. 



8. Algoddn. 



a. panAmak v (generic term) ; white lint cotton usually 

 called sasnapa-pa. 



6. Oossypium hirsutum L. Cultivated shrub, perennial, 

 white fiber. Seed removed easily (BH), with difficulty 

 (CPR). 



c. Fiber for textiles ; seed sometimes used in cooking. 



d. Specimens collected at houses of Basilio Hernandez, 

 Carmen Perez Reyes, Francisco Abundio Xochigua, 

 Paulino Xochigua. 



e. Same as Nos. 12, 36, 89. 



9. Algoddn. 



a. panAinak' (generic term) ; brown lint cotton called 

 esta nalt, or staPnat. 



6. Oossypium hirsutum L. var. punctatum (Schu- 

 macher) J. B. Hutchinson. Cultivated shrub, perennial; 

 narrow leaf, brown fiber. 



c. Same use as preceding. 



d. Specimens collected at houses of Paulino Xochigua, 

 Basilio Hernandez, Lazaro Santes. One specimen brought 

 from Papantla by Francisca Santes. 



e. Same as Nos. 11, 111, 118. 



10. Chote. 

 a. pusni?. 



6. Parmentiera edulis DC. Wild tree, found in monte 

 alto and in house clearings. 



c. Riding and pack animals eat the fruit. Children 

 may eat the ripe fruit, raw ; not a standard dish. Tree, 

 trimmed to shrublike proportions, used to dry laundry 

 (MM). Wood used for baseball bats (AB). 



d. Mercedes Morales, Antonio Bautista. 



11. See No. 9. 



12. See No. 8. 



13. Cordonzuelo; cuerno suelo (sic), 

 a. (iu'pin. 



6. Acacia cornigera (L.) Willd. Grows wild. 



c. "Spines" inhabited by insects whose eggs are ground 

 and applied to dental cavity. Treatment causes tooth 

 to break and facilitates extraction (RG). Useful only 

 as firewood (MG). 



d. Rosalino Gonzalez, MG. 



14. Ceiba. 



a. pucuti (sic) (pochote?). 



b. Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. Large tree, of monte 

 alto. 



c. Fiber not used (MG) ; wood seldom utilized since it 

 rots rapidly (DS). 



d. MG, Donato Santes. 



15. Orozuz: tabardillo. 



a. iglakastapu maStansiks. 



&. Lantana camara L. Volunteer, along trails and 

 in abandoned maize fields. 



c. Infants bathed in water in which a spray has been 

 boiled, as protection against magical malviento. One 

 of the seven plants boiled to prepare a bath which cures 

 either children or adults from "fright" occasioned by 

 the dead. Same bath also used to treat paleness and 

 lack of appetite. 



d. MG. 



e. On two different occasions, same informant gave dis- 

 tinct Spanish names ; on one, unable to remember Totonac 

 term. Same as No. 50. 



16. Unknown to informant. 



a. lukwati. 



b. Araceae family, possibly Philodendron, sp. A vine; 

 climbs monte trees. 



c. Leaf used to wrap meat. 



d. MG. 



17. Unknown to informant. 

 a. mojawa. 



6. Abutilon notolophium A. Gray. Grows wild in 

 monte. 



