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Rick Walker (walker@hpl-cutt.hpl.hp.com)
Wed, 31 Mar 93 10:39:23 PST

> Any sign of a plant on your list from maybe estado Sonora or Chihuahua
> of Mexico, or any listings really, of the plant Martynia lutea? It may
> be listed as Proboscidea lutea or Ibiscella lutea.

No, not by any of those names. I could check in a stack of other catalogs
at home, though. Isn't Martynia one of the "ant-plants"?

> What do the Zapotecs use Pings for?

Doesn't say, but I'd assume the usual: Curdling milk and soothing skin
abrasions (on the udders of cows). And maybe inducing cataleptic trances and
other altered states of consciousness :-).

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Rick