296 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



and called ramtil. This oil is sweet and is used as a condiment and as a burning oil.' It is 

 much used for dressing food in Mysore.' 



Gundelia toumefortil Linn. Compositae. 



Sjrria, Asia Minor and Persia. This thistle is grown abimdantly in Palestine and is 

 similar to the artichoke. The young plant, especially the thick stem, with the young 

 and still undeveloped flower-buds, is brought to the market of Jerusalem under the name 

 cardi and is sought after as a vegetable.' 



Gunnera chilensis Lam. Halorageae. 



Chile. The acidulous leaf -stalks serve as a vegetable.* The plant somewhat resembles 

 rhubarb on a gigantic scale. The inhabitants, says Darwin,' eat the stalks, which are 

 subacid. The leaves are sometimes nearly eight feet in diameter, and the stalk is rather 

 more than a yard high. It is called panke.' In France, it is grown as an ornament.' 



Gustavia speciosa DC. Myrtaceae. 



New Granada. The small fruits of this tree, according to Himiboldt and Bonpland, 

 cause the body of the eater to turn yellow, and, after it remains 24 or 48 hoiu-s, nothing 

 can erase the color.* 



Gjminema lactiferum R. Br. Asclepiadeae. cow plant. 



East Indies and Malay. This is the cow plant of Ceylon, where it is said to yield 

 a mild and copious milk.' 



Gymnocladus canadensis Lam. Leguminosae. chicot. Kentucky coffee-tree. 



NICKER-TREE. STUMP TREE. 



North America. This tree, which occiu^ in the northern United States and in Canada, 

 is often cultivated for ornamental piu-poses. The pods, preserved like those of the tamarind, 

 are said to be wholesome and slightly aperient. The seeds were emploj^ by the early 

 settlers of Kentucky as a substitute for coffee.'* 



Gynandropsis pentaphylla DC. Capparideae. 



Cosmopolitan tropics. This plant is a well-known esculent in the Upper Nile and 

 throughout equatorial Africa as far as the Congo." In India, the leaves are eaten by the 



'Black, A. A. Tfeaj. 5o/. 1:556. 1870. (G. oleifera) 

 ' Ainslie Mat. Med. 2:256. 1826. 

 Unger, F. U. S. Pal. Off. Rpl. 358. 1859. 

 'Mueller, F. Sel. Pis. 224. 1891. 



' Darwin, C. Voy. H. M. S. Beagle 279. 1884. (G. scabra) 

 'MoMna. Hist. Chili I :q<). 1808. {G. tinctoria) 

 ' Vilmorin R P/. Ter. 478. 1870. 3rd Ed. (G. scabra) 

 " Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 2:870. 1832. 

 Royle, J. F. Illustr. Bot. Himal. 1:274. 1839. 

 '" Browne, D. J. Trees Amer. 219. 1846. 

 " Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 64S. 1879. (Cleome pentaphylla) 



