ABSTRACT
Jones (1941) defined Ethnobotany as “the study of the interrelations of…man and plants,” urging that this study not be limited solely to human use of plants, but instead expanded to include all aspects of contact between plants and humans. He characterized the discipline as bridging the plant sciences and anthropology, drawing upon both for its approach, methods, and data. He then identified the task of the ethnobotanist as that of correlating the data on problems of interest to researchers in these disciplines and then presenting the results in a form that is useful to the plant scientist, the anthropologist, or both.
