164 sturtevant's notes on edisle plants 



Florida.' Browne * says in Jamaica the fruit is perfectly insipid but contains a large nut 

 inclosing a kernel of very delicious flavor. The fruits in the West Indies, prepared with 

 sugar, form a favorite conserve with the Spanish colonists, and large quantities are annually 

 exported from Cuba. On the African coast it occurs from the Senegal to the Congo. 

 The fruit is eaten by the natives of Angola and, according to Montiero,* is like a roimd, 

 black-purple plum, tasteless and astringent. Sabine* says: " the fruit is about the size 

 of an Orleans plum but is rounder, of a yellow color, with a flesh soft and juicy, the flavor 

 having much resemblance to that of noyau." 



Chiysophyllum africaniun A. DC. Sapotaceae. 



African tropics.. This is a tall tree of Sierra Leone, whose fruit is in request.' 



C. argenteum Jacq. 



Martinique. The fruit, the size of a plimi, contains a soft, bluish, edible pulp.* 



C. cainito Linn, star apple. 



West Indies. This tree has been cultivated from time immemorial in the West Indies 

 but nowhere is found wild.' It seems to have been observed by Cieza de Leon ' in his 

 travels in Peru, 1532-50, and is called caymitos. Lunan ' says some trees bear fruit with 

 a purple and some with a white skin and pulp, which when soft is like jelly, with milky 

 veins and has a sweet and pleasant taste. 



C. glabrum Jacq. 



Martinique. The fruit is blue, of the form and size of a small olive and is seldom 

 eaten except by children.'" 



C. michino H. B. & K. 



New Granada. The fruit is yellow outside, whitish and clammy inside and is very 

 grateful." 



C. microcarpum Sw. 



Haiti. The fruit is the size of a gooseberry, of a very sweet, delicious taste." 



C. monopyrenum Sw. damson plum of Jamaica. 



West Indies. The fruit is oval and about the size of a Bergamot pear. It contains 

 a white, clammy jviice when fresh, which, after being kept a few days, becomes sweet, 



Unger, F. U. S. Pal. Off. Rpl. 349. 1859. 



Lunan, J. Hort. Jam. 1:211. 1814. 



Montiero, J. J. Angola, River Congo 2:298. 1875. 



'Sabine, J. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. $-.453. 1824. (C.luUus) 



Sabine, J. Trans. Hort. Sac. Lond. 5:458. 1 824. 



Don, G. Hist. DicM. Pis. 4:32. 1838. 



' De CandoUe, A. Orig. Pis. Cult. 285. 1885. 



Markham, C. R. Trav. Cieza de Leon. Hakl. Soc. Ed. 33:234- 1864. 



Lunan, J. Hort. Jam. 2:202. 1814. 



" Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 4:32. 1838. 



" Ibid. 



" Ibid. 



