lb 



India (6-30060; [see also "'Ghick Pea, Cicer arietinum], also 

 cultivated in Tropical Africa, Venezuela, Madagascar, Philip- 

 pines, Mauritius, West Indies, Guiana, Australia, and other 

 hot countries. Used as food — the tender green pods, the young 

 green peas, and the ripe ones whole, split or ground into ineal. 

 The young shoots and the leaves stripped off at the time the peas 

 are harvested, make good fodder for cattle. The plant is 

 specially grown in Bengal and Assam for feeding the lac insect, 

 and in Madagascar and the Antilles for feeding silkworms. 



la. ix. 2 (1911) pp. 236-237. 



Ceratonia Siliqua, Linn. ; Locust Bean, Carob Bean, Algaroba 



(Spain). 



A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high. Native of S. Europe and the 

 Mediterranean region; wild and cultivated in N. Africa; 

 naturalized in certain parts of India and cultivated in the West 

 Indies, &c. Principal trade sources of the pods are Cyprus 



(459131), Portugal (152452), Turkey in Asia (58336), Algeria 

 (21470), Italy (2174). The beans are an important food for 

 -tock, including cattle, horses, and pigs. Trees begin to bear 

 fruit after about 3 years from grafting on stocks about 2 years 



old. 



la. ix. 2 (1911) pp. 261-263. 



Prosopis juliflora, DC. ; Mesquit Bean, Algaroba, Honey 



Locust. 



A deciduous tree up to 50 ft. high. Native of the West 



Indies and Central America ; introduced to many British Posses- 

 sions, including Australia, South Africa, India, West Indies. 

 &c. Seeds obtained from the Mohave "Desert, California, by the 

 Foreign Office, were distributed from Kew in 1875. The best 

 reports of success in establishing trees came from India — Punjab 

 and South Australia (see Kew Rep. 1879). The pods are a good 

 food for cattle, horses and pigs, though death has resulted on 

 occasion after eating damp or undried pods, owing, it has been 

 suggested, to the germination or swelling of the seed in the 

 stomach. They are an important article of food with the Indians 

 and Mexicans, who grind them into flour for baking purposes. 

 In Hawaii, where the plant has been introduced, it appears to 

 have become thoroughly naturalized, growing wild along the 

 sea coast, and it has been the means of enabling this island to 

 develop^ an important trade in "Algaroba Honey" (See 

 "Hawaiian Honeys," by Van Dine and Thompson, Hawaii Exp. 

 St. Bull. No. 17, 1908, pp. 8-9), doing, it would seem, what 

 "Logwood" (Haematoxylon cavrpechianum) has done for 

 Jamaica in producing its famous "Logwood Honey." 



la. ix. 2 (1011) p. 285. * . 



Enterolobium Saman, Prain (Pithecolobium Soman, Benth.); 

 Guango, Rain Tree. 



A large deciduous 'tree up to 60 ft. high. Native of Tropical 

 America, introduced to the West Indies, India, West Africa, 

 Queensland, &c. In Jamaica it was introduced from the main- 

 land and was reported in 1878 to have then become naturalized 



