Table 1. The number of plant species per cultural bound syndrome per population.

	Saramaccans	Aucans	Creoles	Ghana	Bénin	Gabon
Walk early	60	37	1	20	38	29
Evil eye	35	20	15	11	0	1
Atita	33	32	11	2	39	30
Fontanels	0	7	2	4	35	28
Total nr. of plant species *	104	70	26	35	98	76
	Suriname			Africa
	146			193

*Summed single values surpass the total number of plant species, because species are often used for more than one CBS and may also overlap between populations. This is especially the case for Suriname.