ABSTRACT

 1. With the background of this general terminology of plants, we can pass to the listing of words which refer to the growth and build of those plants in which the main interest of the natives lies, and with regard to which they have developed their most detailed terminology ; I refer to their cultivated crops. Let me start with the small yam, taytu, bearing in mind that whatever is said about this plant refers also to kuvi, ‘large yams’.