STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 



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A. ehrenbergiana Hayne 



Desert regions of Libya, Nubia, Dongola. It yields a gum arabic.^ 



A. famesiana Willd. cassie-oil plant, huisache. opopanax. popinac. sponge 



TftEE. WEST INDIAN BLACKTHORN. 



Tropics. This species is cultivated all over India and is indigenous in America from 

 New Orleans, Texas and Mexico, to Buenos Aires and Chile, and is sometimes cultivated. 

 It exudes a gam which is collected in Sind.* The flowers distil a delicious perfume. 



A. ferruginea DC. 



India. The bark steeped in " jaggery water " fresh, sweet sap from any of several 

 palms is distilled as an intoxicating liquor. It is very astringent.' 



A. flexicaulis Benth. 



Texas. The thick, woody pods contain roimd seeds the size of peas which, when 

 boiled, are palatable and nutritious.* 



A. glaucophylla Steud. 



Tropical Africa. This species fiunishes gum arable^ 



A. gummifera Willd. barbary-gum. morocco-gum. 



North Africa. It yields gum arable in northern Africa.' 



A. homalophylla A. Cunn. myall-wood, violet- wood. 

 This species yields gum in Australia.' 



A. horrida Willd. cape-gum tree, dornboom. 



South Africa. This is the dornboom plant which exudes a good kind of gum.' 



A. leucophloea Willd. kuteera-gum. 



Southern India. The bark is largely used in the preparation of spirit from sugar 

 and palm-juice, and it is also used in times of scarcity, ground and mixed with flour. 

 The pods are used as a vegetable, and the seeds are ground and mixed with flotu".' 



A. longifolia Willd. Sydney golden wattle. 



Australia. The Tasmanians roast the pods and eat the starchy seeds.^" 



A. pallida F. Muell. 



Australia. The roots of the yotmg trees are roasted and eaten." 



' U. S. Disp. 6. 1865. 



' Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 180. 1876. 



Drury, H. Useful Pis. Ind. 8. 1858 



<Havard,V. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 499 1885. 



Flfickiger and Hanbury Pharm. 234. 1879. 



Mueller, F. Sel. Pis. 3. 1876. 

 'Baillon, H. Hisl. Pis. 2:51. 1872. 

 Mueller, F. Sel. Pis. 7. 1891. 



Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 184. 1874. 



"Baillon. H. Hist. Pis. 2:52. 1872. (A. sophorae) 



" Palmer, E. Journ. Roy. Soc. New So. Wales 17:94- 1884. 



