352 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



cana, Fagus ferruginea, Ostrya Virginica, Betula leuta, B. nigra, 

 Salix lucida, 8. discolor, Juniperus Virginiana and Pinus mitis. 

 There still exists in the southern part of Indiana (especially 

 in Pike, Dubois and Crawford counties) considerable actually 

 " virgin " forest, in which probably the largest trees now grow- 

 ing in the State are to be found. During a recent trip through 

 this country, over the line of the Louisville & St. Louis Air Line 

 R. R., I was much impressed with the magnificent growth of 

 beech and other trees, growing densely as possible, and appar- 

 ently untouched by the ax for miles along the railroad. Saw 

 mills were already established in places, so the work of destruc- 

 tion has begun, and will doubtless continue as long as the 

 material lasts. 



Notes on Edible Plants. III. 



BY E. LEWIS STUKTEVANT. 



ANONACEvE. 



This order contains a number of edible and often aromatic 

 plants, and some are in esteem in their native countries, even to 

 the European palate. In tropical Asia the perfumed fruit of 

 TJvaria Burahol, Bl., U. dulois, Dun., and U. heterophylla, Bl., 

 are eaten (Baillon), in Burma, the fruit of U. grandiflora, which 

 has the taste and the appearance of the North American Papaw 

 (Pickering), and in Ceylon that of U. Zeylanica, of a vinous- 

 taste, and resembling that of an apricot (Don). In Jamaica U. 

 alba is said by Lunan to have a fruit eaten when roasted, and in 

 Jamaica U. dulois is grown in the public gardens as a fruit tree 

 (Morris); U. cor data is also enumerated amongst the edible spe- 

 cies (Masters). 



Guatteria cerasoides, Dun., of Western Hindustan, has dark 

 red, cherry size, astringent fruit, eaten by the natives ; and the 

 black, fleshy, smooth, acid-sweet berries of G. sempervirens, Dun., 

 are also eaten (Don). 



The Unonias have aromatic properties. U. carminativa, 

 Arrud. affords in the capsules of its seeds a spice relished as a 

 pepper in Brazil (Arruda); U. discreta, L. fil. of Surinam, Z7, 

 dumetorum, Dun., of Cochin China, U. esculenta,Dun. of India 

 about Madras, have fruits said to be edible and of good taste 

 (Don); those of U. Corinthi are also classed as edible (Baillon), 

 and those of U. undulata, Dun., are used as a condiment in 

 Guinea. 



