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STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 



C. tridens Linn. 



Cosmopolitan tropics. It is used as a potherb in Egypt.* 



C. tiilocularis Linn. 



Old World tropics. In Arabia this plant is used as a potherb.' It is used as a pot- 

 herb in Sennaar and Cordova, where it is native.* 



Cordia collococca Linn. Boragineae. clammy cherry. 



Jamaica. The fruit is red, with a sweetish pulp and is edible. 



C. loureiri Roem. et Schiilt. 



China. The drupe is red, small, acid and edible.* 



C. myza Linn. Assyrian plum. selu. 



Tropical Asia and Australia. The tender, young fruit is eaten as a vegetable and 

 is pickled in India. The ripe fruit is also eaten. The kernel tastes somewhat like a filbert 

 and that of the cultivated tree is better.^ 



C. obUqua Willd. 



Tropical India. The yotmg fruit is pickled and is also eaten as a vegetable.' 



C. rothii Roem. et Schult. 



Western India. The fruit is eaten.' 



C. sebestena Linn. 



Tropical America. The plant bears a mucilaginous, edible fruit. Nuttall ' says it 

 has been observed growing at Key West, Florida. 



C. vestita Hook. f. & Thoms. 



Himalayan region. The fruit is filled with a gelatinous pulp, which is eaten and is 

 preferred to that of C. myxa.^ 



CordyUne indivisa Steud. Liliaceae. dracaena. ti. 



New Zealand. The berries are eaten by the New Zealanders.*" 



C. terminalis Kvmth. dracaena. ti. 



Tropical Asia and Australia. This plant, common in the islands of the Papuan 

 Archipelago, is there cultivated. In the Samoan Islands, some 20 varieties, mostly edible, 

 are distinguished by name." The thick, fleshy roots contain large quantities of saccharine 



' Unger, F. U. S.- Pat. Off. Rpt. 355. 1859. 

 'Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:542. 1831. 

 ' Unger, F. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 356. 1859. 



* Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 4:376. 1838. 

 ' Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 336. 1874. 



Drury, H. Useful Pis. Ind. 158. 1873. 



' Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 594. 1879. 

 Nuttall, T. No. Amer. Sylva 2:147. 

 Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 338. 1874. 

 > Unger, P. U. <?. Pat. Off. Rpt. 347. 

 " Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 438. 



1865. 



1859. 

 1879. 



(C. angustiiolia) 



(Dracaena indivisa) 

 {Dracaena terminalis) 



