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of a pleasant acid taste and very refreshing.^ At Bombay, the fruit is eaten but is by 

 no means good.- The fruit is eaten.' 



F. sepiaria Roxb. 



East Indies and Malay. In Coromandel, the berries are sold in the market.'' The 

 fruit has a pleasant, acid taste and is ver\' refreshing.* At Bombay, its berries are eaten.' 



Flagellaria indica Linn. Flagellarieae. 



Tropical shores from Africa to the Samoan Islands. In Fiji, the ears of this plant 

 are eaten. 'i> 



Flemingia tuberosa Dalzell. Leguminosae. 



East Indies. The tubers are said to be edible.' 



F. vestita Benth. flemingia. 



Himalayan region. This prostrate plant is cultivated in many parts of northwest 

 India for the sake of its edible, tuberous roots, which are neariy elliptical and about an 

 inch long.* 



Fluggea leucopyrus Willd. Euphorbiaceae. 



East Indies. The small, round, whitish- colored fruit is a little bitter to the taste 

 but is eaten in India by the poor.^" 



F. microcarpa Blume. 



Old World tropics. The fruit, a white, globose, dehiscent berry, one-sixth inch in 

 diameter, is eaten." The berries are eaten by the natives of eastern tropical Africa.'^ 



Foeniculum vulgare Mill. Umbelliferae. fennel, finochio. 



Europe. Fennel was cultivated by the Romans as a garden herb and was so much 

 used in the kitchen that there were few meats seasoned, or vinegar sauces served without 

 it." It was used as a condiment by our English forefathers. The plant is a native of 

 temperate Europe and Asia. It is now largely cultivated in central Europe, Saxony, 

 Franconia and Wurtemburg, in the south of France, in Italy, in India and in China. 

 Fennel was included among American garden herbs by McMahon," 1806. Darwin '^ found 



Wight, R. lUustr. Ind. Bot. 1:37. 1840. 

 ' Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. 692. 1879. 

 Brandis, D. Forest Fl. iS. 1874. 



* Roxburgh, W. Pis. Coram. Coast 1:48. 1795 

 Wight, R. Illustr. Ind. Bot. 1:37. 1840. 

 Pickering, C. Ckron. Hist. Pis. 725. 1879. 



' Seemann, B. Fl. Viti. 31$. 1865-73. 



Mueller,?. Sel. Pis. 207. 1891. 



Black, A. A. Treas. Bot. i-.^gg. 1870. 

 '"AinsHe, W. Afa/. 7nd. 2:449. 1826. 

 "Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 415. 1874. 

 " Black, A. A. Treai. Bo/. 1:501. 1870. (F. abyssinica) 

 ' Mcintosh, C. Book Card. 2:5. 1855. 



" McMahon, B. Amer. Card. Cal. 583. 1806. (A nethum foeniculum) 

 Darwin, C. Voy. H. M. S. Beagle 119. 1884. 



