NATIVE NAMES AND USES OF SOME PLANTS OF EASTERN 

 GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS. 



By S. F. Blake. 



INTRODUCTION. 



In the spring of 1919 an Economic Survey Mission of the United 

 States State Department, headed by the late Ma j. Percy H. Ashmead, 

 made a brief examination of the natural products and resources of 

 the region lying between the Chamelecon Valley in Honduras and 

 the Motagua Valley in Guatemala. Work was also done by the 

 botanists of the expedition in the vicinity of Izabal on Lake Izabal. 

 Descriptions of the new species collected by the expedition, with 

 a short account of its itinerary, have already been published by the 

 writer, 1 and a number of the new forms have been illustrated. The 

 present list is based wholly on the data and specimens collected 

 by the botanists and foresters of this expedition — H. Pittier, S. F. 

 Blake, G. B. Gilbert, L. K. Stadtmiller, and H. N. Whitford— and 

 no attempt has been made to incorporate data from other regions 

 of Central America. Such information will be found chiefly in 

 various papers published by Henry Pittier, 2 J. N. Hose, 3 and P. C. 

 Standley. 4 



LIST OF NATIVE NAMES AND USES. 



Acacia sp. Cachito. Cornizuelo. Iscanal. Fabaceae. 



Acacia sp. Lagarto. Sanpedrano. Fabaceae. 



A tree up to 25 meters high and 45 cm. in diameter. The wood is used for 

 building. 



Acalypha sp. Costilla de danta. Etjphokbiaceae. 



1 Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 24: 1-32. pis. 1-10, f. 1-4- 1922. 



2 Ensayo sobre las plantas usuales de Costa Rica. Pp. 176, pis. 81. Washing- 

 ton, D. C, 1908. 



'Notes on useful plants of Mexico. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5:209-259, pis. 

 28-6J h 1899. 



* Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 23: 1-169. 1920. This 

 first part includes Gleicheniaceae to Betulaceae. The second part (Fagaceae 

 to Fabaceae) is in press. 



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