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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br />
I would like to thank: Greg Shropshire for his unfailing love and dedication<br />
and for making the many days away from home possible; Crystal Ray<br />
Arvigo for her patience throughout and assistance <strong>with</strong> the Creole language;<br />
Mike Balick for his professional guidance and cherished friendship; Lucy,<br />
Mick, Bryony, and Piers Fleming for dinner parties, comforting talks, and<br />
family events over the years;<br />
Special appreciation must be given to the late Timothy Plowman, who<br />
first believed in us and who gave us our first taste of plant collecting.<br />
Thanks to Art and Ethel Arvigo and to Frank Arvigo for helping me to<br />
become the woman I am today. Thanks to Jenny Eshoo for the life she gave<br />
me. Thanks to Mosina Jordan, Barbara Fernandez, George Like, Steve<br />
Szadek, Paul Bisek, Mellen and Mohamed Tanomaly, Georgina Vernon, and<br />
Melissa Bevans of the United States Agency for International Development<br />
for their assistance and grants to conduct the Belize Ethnobotany Project<br />
<strong>with</strong> the New York Botanical Garden and the traditional healers of Belize;<br />
the New York Botanical Garden for their longtime support; the United<br />
Nations High Commission for Refugees for their funding of the village<br />
community health care workshops on traditional home remedies; Carolyn<br />
and Jerry Garcia of the Rex Foundation; Katy Moran of the Healing Forest<br />
Conservancy; Mickey Hart; Steve King and Lisa Conte of Shaman<br />
Pharmaceuticals; Lu Nicolait of the Belize Center for Environmental<br />
Studies; Dee Dee Runkle, Sean and Yvette Bailey, Rob and Jane Mackler of<br />
the United States Peace Corps; and the residents of La Gracia Village in<br />
Cayo District for their support.<br />
Over the years, the Belize Ethnobotany Project had been assisted by<br />
several foundations. We are grateful to the Rockefeller Foundation, the<br />
Metropolitan Life Insurance Foundation, the Overbrook Foundation, the<br />
Edward John Noble Foundation, the John and Catherine MacArthur<br />
Foundation, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the National Cancer<br />
Institute. Thanks to Patty Gildea and the Gildea Family Foundation for their