ABSTRACT
The Rio Hondo Project collected botanical material to provide comparative specimens of seeds, pollen, and other plant remains for the purpose of studying both past and present plant populations on Albion Island. Ethnobotanical data on uses that modern–day residents make of plants were also gathered. Philip Leino made three plant collecting trips to northern Belize in July 1973, June to August 1974, and November to December 1976. The plant collections Leino made in 1976 were mostly in open areas, notably along the roads leading out of San Antonio to various locations on Albion Island and in an abandoned lot on the outskirts of Orange Walk Town. Plant collectors obtained information on common names and uses from various residents of San Antonio. Dennis E. Puleston covered his platform with soil under a swamp forest in the area and muck from the canals and experimentally planted corn, other vegetables, and cotton.
