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47. Claytonia balonensis (Balonnensis), Z7vd/., (Syn. Calan- 
drinia Balonnensis, F.v.M.), N.O., Portulaceze, B.FI., i., 
172. 
Called ‘ Periculia” by the aboriginals. (Stuart). 
“This plant is eaten with bread by white people. The blacks 
also use it for food, mixed with baked bark.” (Annie F. Richards, 
in Proc. K.S.S.A., iv., 136.) 
“The seed is used for making a kind of bread, after the 
manner of that of Portulaca oleracea.” (Mueller, Fragm., x., 71.) 
South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland. 
48. Claytonia polyandra, F.v.M., (Syn. Talinum polyandrum, 
Hook.), N.O., Portulacez, B.FI., i., 172. 
“Coonda” of the aboriginals about Shark’s Bay. 
“Used as food by some Western Australian tribes.’’ (Mueller 
and Forrest, Plants Indigenous about Shark’s Bay, W.A., 1883.) 
North and Western Australia, South Australia, and New 
South Wales. 
49. Cocos nucifera, Z7zz., N.O., Palme, B.FI., vii., 143. 
“Cocoanut Palm.” 
This nut is so well known that the following few notes con- 
cerning it will be sufficient. As an article of food the kernel is of 
great importance to the inhabitants of the tropics. In the 
Laccadives it forms the chief food, each person consuming four 
nuts per day, and the fluid, commonly called milk, which it 
contains, affords them an agreeable beverage. While young they 
yield a delicious substance resembling blanc-mange. 
Among other products. of this palm may be mentioned 
“toddy,’’ which when fermented is intoxicating ; strong arrack is 
also distilled from it, besides which it yields vinegar and “‘ jaggery,” 
or sugar. 
50. Colocasia antiquorum, Scho/?, (Syn. Caladium acre, R.Br., 
Arum Colocasia, Linn.), N.O., Aroidez, B.F1: vii., 155. 
The ‘Taro”’ of the Fijians. 
““This plant is cultivated in most tropical countries, Egypt, 
India, etc., for the sake of its leaves, which when uncooked are 
acrid, but on boiling, the water being changed, they lose their 
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