1. The Distinguished economic botanist award 1985

   • Jack R. Harlan

   Announcement Pages: 2 - 2

2. Lettuce and the Sycomore: sex and romance in ancient Egypt

   • Jack R. Harlan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 4 - 15

3. Essays Commemorating 40th Volume ofEconomic Botany

   Announcement Pages: 16 - 16

4. Reminiscences about Dr. Fulling

   • Arthur Cronquist

   Announcement Pages: 16 - 18

5. Edmund H. Fulling

   • William C. Steere

   OriginalPaper Pages: 18 - 20

6. Reminiscences of Seventeen Years of a

   • Richard Evans Schultes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 20 - 23

7. Recollections of an Associate Editor

   • Robert F. Raffauf

   OriginalPaper Pages: 24 - 24

8. My Life as a book review editor: A review

   • John W. Thieret

   ReviewPaper Pages: 24 - 26

9. Collection and evaluation of pearl millet (Pennisetum) germplasm from Malawi

   • S. Appa Rao
   • M. H. Mengesha
   • Rajagopal Reddy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 37

10. Notes

    Announcement Pages: 37 - 37

11. Ethnobotany of hill tribes of northern Thailand. I. Medicinal plants of Akha

    • Edward F. Anderson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 38 - 53

12. Of plants and people

    • James A. Duke

    Book Review Pages: 53 - 53

13. Vernonia galamensis, Potential new crop source of epoxy acid

    • Robert E. Perdue
    • Kenneth D. Carlson
    • Michael G. Gilbert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 54 - 68

14. Accurate documentation of Germplasm: The lost guatemalan teosintes (Zea, Gramineae)

    • Hugh H. Iltis
    • Duane A. Kolterman
    • Bruce F. Benz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 77

15. Archaeological manioc (Manihot) from Coastal Peru

    • Donald Ugent
    • Shelia Pozorski
    • Thomas Pozorski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 78 - 102

16. Plant fiber for papermaking

    • Julia F. Morton

    Book Review Pages: 102 - 102

17. Medicinal plants of the sierra madre: Comparative study of tarahumara and Mexican market plants

    • Robert A. Bye

    OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 124

18. Lawrence Memorial Award

    Announcement Pages: 124 - 124

19. Society for Economic Botany

    • H.Garrison Wilkes

    Announcement Pages: 125 - 128

20. Book Reviews

    • Walter H. Lewis
    • Robert J. Knight
    • Walter H. Lewis

    BookReview Pages: 129 - 135

21. Notes

    Announcement Pages: 136 - 136