1. The Society for Economic Botany 1994 Distinguished economic botanist

   • Walton C. Galinat

   Announcement Pages: 1 - 2

2. El origen del maiz: El grano de la humanidad

   • Walton C. Galinat

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 12

3. Velvetbean: A “new” plant with a history

   • Daniel Buckles

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 25

4. In the society of bature. A native ecology in Amazonia

   • Bradley C. Bennett

   Book Review Pages: 25 - 25

5. Pistic, traditional food from Western Friuli, N.E. Italy

   • Maurizio G. Paoletti
   • A. L. Dreon
   • G. G. Lorenzoni

   OriginalPaper Pages: 26 - 30

6. Integral processing of babassu palm (orbignya phalerata, arecaceae) fruits: Village level production in maranhāo, Brazil

   • Claudio Urbano B. Pinheiro
   • José Mário Ferro Frazão

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 39

7. A systematic treatment of fruit types

   • Daniel F. Austin

   Book Review Pages: 39 - 39

8. A review of caryocar brasiliense (caryocaraceae)—an economically valuable species of the central brazilian cerrados

   • Fernando Dantas De Araujo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 40 - 48

9. Factors affecting germination and stand establishment ofphyllanthus Amarus (Euphorbiaceae)

   • David W. Unander
   • Herbert H. Bryan
   • Robert T. Mcmillan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 55

10. Morphological and phenological comparisons of two Hopi maize varieties conserved in situ and ex situ

    • Daniela Soleri
    • Steven E. Smith

    OriginalPaper Pages: 56 - 77

11. Plants, genes and agriculture

    • Aristotel Pappelis
    • Donald Ugent
    • Pradeep K. Bhattacharya

    Book Review Pages: 77 - 77

12. Variability in Andeannuña common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris, Fabaceae)

    • Joseph Tohme
    • Orlando Ch. Toro
    • Daniel G. Debouck

    OriginalPaper Pages: 78 - 95

13. Three lichens used in popular medicine in Eastern Andalucia (Spain)

    • M. R. González-Tejero
    • M. J. Martínez-Lirola
    • J. Molero-Mesa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 96 - 98

14. Technologies for sustainable agriculture in the tropics

    • John Rashford

    Book Review Pages: 98 - 98

15. Notes on economic plants (araliaceae)

    • P. M. Catling
    • K. W. Spicer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 102

16. Society for Economic Botany

    • Jean H. Langenheim

    Announcement Pages: 103 - 105

17. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: 106 - 106

18. Book reviews

    • John C. Semple
    • Thomas E. Hemmerly
    • Alina Freire-Fierro

    BookReview Pages: 107 - 111