1'oUTLAM) iSAGU. 



The roots are larger in those countries than with us. Lindley 

 says it is the 8. sinensis that is cultivated in China. 



Pandanaccce, Screw-pine order. Pandanus odoratissimus, 

 the screw-pine. The seeds of the screw-pines are edible. The 

 flower of P. odoratissimus is fragrant and eatable. 



Typhacece, Bulrush order. Typha, the young shoots of 

 Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia, both native, are sometimes 

 used like asparagus. Their large amylaceous tubers are also 

 used for food. The pollen of Typha elephantina, or elephant- 

 grass, is made into a kind of bread in Scinde and Western 

 Australia, called boor or booree. The pollen of T. utilis, in 

 New Zealand, is used to make a kind of bread called hunga- 

 hunga. Such pollen contains both azotised and starchy 

 matter. 



Aracece, Arum order. Arum maculatum, cuckoo-pint, 

 or wake-robin, has an amylaceous corm. The starch used 

 to be separated in large quantities at Weymouth, and in the 

 island of Portland, and sold under the name of Portland sago, 

 A. campanulatum is cultivated in some parts of India on 

 account of its edible conns. Caladium bicolor, and other 

 species, have corms which, when roasted or boiled, are used 

 as food. Colocasia esculenta, and other species, have edible 

 corms, which, in the West Indies, are called cocoes and eddoes. 

 C. macrorhiza has a corm which is the edible tara of the South 

 Sea Islanders. C. Himalensis has corrns that afford food in 

 the Himalayas. 



Orontiacece, or Acoracece, Orontium or Sweet-flag order. 

 Calla palustris has acrid amylaceous rhizomes which, after 

 washing, are used as food. This Calla extends to Lapland. 



Pisteacece or Lemnacece, Duck- weed order. Such plants 

 are not only the food of ducks, but of the fresh-water polype, 

 &c. 



Sub-class, Glumiferce. Cypcracece, Sedge order. Cyperus 



