142 STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 



Cardiopteris lobata Wall. Olacineae. 



East Indies. It has oleraceous leaves, edible but almost insipid.' 



Cardiospennum halicacabum Linn. Sapindaceae. balloon vine, heart pea. winter 



CHERRY. 



Tropics. This climbing vine, ornamental on account of its inflated pods, is said 

 by Pickering ' to be native of subtropical North America and by Black ' to occur in all 

 tropical countries. In Burma, according to Mason,* it is grown in great quantities as 

 a vegetable. In the Moluccas, as Drury * states, the leaves are cooked. In equatorial 

 Africa, it is common and the leaves are made into spinach by the natives as Grant * 

 observed. ^ 



Careya arborea Roxb. Myrtaceae. slow-match tree. 

 East India. The fruit is eaten.' 



Carica citriformis Jacq. f. Passifloreae. 



African Tropics. This plant bears a fruit the size of an orange, eatable but insipid.* 



C. microcarpa Jacq. 



South America. The plant bears fruit the size of a cherry.' 



C. papaya Linn, melon tree, papaya, papaw. 



American tropics. The papaw tree is indigenous in Brazil, Surinam and the West 

 Indies and from these places has been taken to the Congo. Its transfer to the East Indies 

 may have occurred soon after the discovery of America, for, as early as 1626, seeds were 

 brought from the East Indies to Nepal. Its further distribution to China, Japan and the 

 islands of the Pacific Ocean took place only in the last century.^" Linschoten " says, it 

 came from the East Indies to the Philippines and was taken thence to Goa. In east 

 Florida, it grows well. Of the fruit, Wm. S. Allen of Florida, writes that it is often 

 as large as a melon, yet the best varieties for eating those having the best flavor are 

 no larger than a very large pear. The fruit is used extensively in south Florida and Cuba 

 for making tough meat tender. The toughest meat is made tender by putting a few of 

 the leaves or the green fruit of the pawpaw tree into the pot with the meat and boiling. 

 In a few minutes, the meat will cleave from the bones and be as tender as one could wish. 



Dr. Morris read before the Maryland Academy of Science a paper by Mr. Lugger in 



iBaillon, H. Hist. Pis. 5:207. 1878. {C. rumphii) 

 Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 567. 1879. 

 ' Black, A. A. Treas. Bot. 1:222. 1870. 

 * Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 567. 1879. 

 'Drury, H. Useful Pis. Ind. 112. 1873. 

 Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. z^y. 1879. 

 'Lindley, J. 7eg. Xiwg. 755. 1846. 

 Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 3:44. 1834. 

 Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 3:45. 1834. 

 " Unger, F. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 331. 1859. 

 " Nuttall, T. No. Amer. Sylva 2:115, "fi- 1865. 



