242 STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 



D. spicata Roth. 



East Indies. It has edible roots.* 



D. tomentosa Koen. doyala yam. 



East Indies. This is the Doyala yam of India.* 



D. trifida Linn. Indian yam. 



Guiana and Central America. This species is cultivated as an edible yam.' 



D. triloba Lam. yam. 



Guiana. This is the smallest and most delicate of the yams grown in Jamaica. It 

 seldom exceeds eight or nine inches in length and two or three in diameter and is generally 

 smaller. The roots have a pleasant, sweetish taste, very agreeable to most palates.^ 



Diospjrros chloroxylon Roxb. Ebenaceae. 



East Indies. This Indian tree has a cherry-like fruit which is very palatable.' The 

 fruit is sweetish, clammy and subastringent but edible.' 



D. decandra Lour. 



Cochin China. The berry is large, nearly globular, pulpy, yellowish when ripe; its 

 taste is sweet and austere, combined with a disagreeable smell. It is, however, sold in 

 the markets and eaten.'' 



D. discolor Willd. mangosteen. 



Philippine Islands. This species is commonly oiltivated in many islands of the 

 East and has also been introduced into the West Indies. The fruit is like a large quince 

 and in some places is called mangosteen. Its flavor is agreeable. The fruit of this tree 

 is brown, with a pink-colored, fleshy rind, the pulp firm and white and the flavor agreeable. 

 It is cultivated in the Isle of France for its fruit.' 



D. dodecandra Lour. 



Cochin China. The berry is pale, with a sweetish, astringent, edible and pleasant 

 pulp." 



D. ebenum Koen. east indian ebony. 

 This plant bears an edible fruit." 



D. embryopteris Pers. 



East Indies. The fruit of this tree of India is not imlike a russet apple, pulpy, of 



Mueller, F. Sd. Ph. i^S- 1891. 



'Mueller, P. Sel. Ph. !=,(>. 1891. 



'Ibid 



* Lunan, J. Hort. Jam. 2:309. 1814. 



'Roxburgh, W. Pis. Coram. 1:2,^. 1795. 



' Royle, J. F. Illustr. Bot. Himal. 1:262. 1839. 



' Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 4:39. 1838. 



Smith, J. Diet. Econ. Pis. 2^^. 1882. (D. mabola) 



"Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 4:40. 1838. (D. mabola) 

 ' Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 4:41. 1838. 

 "Unger, F. U.S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 339. 1859. (D. ebanaster) 



