Neo Tropica

Interestingly, however, Hartwell s compendium contains spedes from 30 of the 65 plant families so far studied in Flora Neotropica. (Hartwell s hstings comprise a total of 214 plant families.) 

Also in the same monograph is a description for the cancer tree, Jacaranda caerulea. Hartwell lists this species also imder Bignoniaceae, as well as a couple of others, J. brasiliana and J. procera. All are designated antitumor agents. 

Another useful volume encompassing the territory is the Amazonian Ethnobo-tanical Dictionary, by James Alan Duke and Rudolfo Vasquez, published in 1994. This is the same Jim Duke, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Beltsville, Maryland, who wrote the Foreword to Jonathan Hartwell (1982). Many of the medicinal properties of select spedes are provided, hsting both common and scientific names, and annotated with descriptors POISON and TOXIC wherever they apply. The medicinal uses are as based on folklore. 

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A region of the New World, and therefore closer to home, is that area called Neo Tropica, lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, which... 

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