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gardens of India. The most delicious puddings and tarts, as well as a remarkably fine 

 jelly, are made of the thick, succulent sepals which envelope the fruit. There are two 

 kinds, the red and the white.* In Malabar, jellies and tarts are made of the calyces and 

 capstdes freed from the seeds ^ as also in Burma.^ In Unyoro and Ugani, interior Africa, 

 it is cultivated for its bark, seeds and leaves. The bark makes beautiful but short cordage; 

 the leaves make a spinach and the seeds are eaten roasted." Roselle is now rather com- 

 monly grown in Florida. 



H. S3rriacus"^inn. rose of sharon. 



Old World tropics. In China, the leaves are sometimes made into tea or eaten when 

 yotmg.* 



H. tiliaceus Linn. 



The Tahitians suck the bark when the breadfruit harvest is improductive, and the 

 New Caledonians eat it.* 



Hippocratea comosa Sw. Celastrineae. 



Santo Domingo and West Indies. The seeds are oily and sweet.' 



H. grahamii Wight. 



East Indies. In India, the seed is edible. ' 



Hippophae rhamnoides Linn. Elaeagnaceae. sallow thorn, sea buckthorn. 



Europe and temperate Asia. The fruit is acid and, though not very agreeable in 

 flavor, is eaten by children in England. The Siberians and Tartars make a jelly from 

 the berries and eat them with milk and cheese, while the inhabitants of the Gulf of Bothnia 

 prepare from them an agreeable jelly which they use as a condiment with their fish. In 

 some districts of France, a sauce is made of the berries, to be eaten with fish and meat. ' 

 In Kunawar, the fruit is made into a condiment.'" 



H. salicifolia D. Don. sea buckthorn. 



Nepal. The fruit is eaten in the Himalayas." 



Hodgsonia heteroclita Hook. f. & Thomas. Cucurbitaceae. 



Himalayan regions, Burma and Malay. This plant is a gigantic climber bearing 

 immense, yellowish-white, pendulous blossoms. Its fruit is of rich brown, whose kernels, 

 called katior-pot by the Lepchas, are eaten."* 



1 Firminger, T. A. C. Card. Ind. 200. 1874. 

 Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 797. 1879. 

 Ibid. 



* Speke, J. H. Journ. Disc. Source Nile 563. 1864. 

 'Smith, F. P. Contrib. Mat. Med. China 113. 1871. 



Seemann, B. Fl. Vili. 18. 1865-73. 

 'Baillon, H. Hist. Pis. 6:27. 1880. 



Wight, R. Illustr. Ind. Bot. i: 132. 1840. 



Johnson, C. P. Useful Pis. Gl. Brit. 2^9,. 1862. 

 "Brandis, D. Forest Fl. 389. 1874. 

 " Royle, J. F. Illuslr. Bot. Himal. 1:323. 1839. 

 " Hooker, J. D. Himal. Journ. 2:7, 350. 1854. 



