sturtevant's notes on edible plants 247 



are several varieties of this plant under culture; some of them are pole beans, others 

 dwarf.i 



Doryanthes excelsa Correa. Amaryllideae. giant lily. 



Australia. A liliaceous plant 24 feet high of which the stem is roasted and eaten 



by the Australians.^ 



Dovyalis zizyphoides E. Mey. Bixineae. 



South Africa. The red berries are edible.' 



Dracaena draco Linn. Liliaceae. dragon-tree. 



Canary Islands. The dragon tree furnished dragons-blood once considerably exported 

 from the Canaries. At Porto Santo, one of the Madeira Islands, Cada Mosto in 1454 

 found the tree yielding " a kind of fruit, like to our cherries but yellow, which grows ripe 

 in March and is of a most exquisite taste." * 



Dracontium pol3T)hyllum Linn. Aroideae. 



South America. The roots serve as food to the natives of the Pacific isles.* . 



Dracontomelon sylvestre Blume. Anacardiaceae. 



Borneo. This species is planted at Rewa, Fiji Islands. Pickering, in Races of Man, 

 mentions the fruit under the name canarium and says it is sour and edible. 



Dregea volubilis Benth. Asclepiadeae. 



East Indies. " I have been informed," says Ainslie,' " that the leaves are amongst 

 those which are occasionally eaten as greens by the natives of lower India but I am doubtful 

 of this, considering the general character of the genus." 



Drimys aromatica F. Muell. Magnoliaceae. pepper tree. 



Australia. The ripe fruit is black. Hooker * says, and the whole plant is highly 

 aromatic and pungent, hence its seeds and berries are sometimes used as pepper. 



D. winteri Forst. new granada winter-bark. 



South America. The bark of the variety montana is used in Brazil as a seasoning.' 



Drosera rotundifolia Linn. Droseraceae. lustwort. sundew. 



Northern regions. The round-leaved sundew is said by Figuer '" to be acrid and 

 caustic, and in Italy a liquor called rossoli is distilled from its juices. It curdles milk. 



' Georgeson Amer. Card. 14:84. 1893. 



'Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 56^. 1879. 



Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. i:2()2. 1831. {Flactmrtia rhamnoides) 



*Gen. Coll. Voy. Portugese ^o. 1789. 



De CandoUe, A. Ceog. Bat. 2:827. 1855. 



Gray, A. Bot. U. S. Explor. Exped. 375. 1854. 

 'Ainslie, W. Mat. Ind. 2:155. 1826. (Asclepias volubilis) 



Hooker, W. J. Journ. Bot. 2:404. 1840. {Tasmania aromatica) 

 Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:80. 1831. (D. granalensis) 

 "Figuier Veg. World 405. 1867. 



