350 STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 



M. cnide Spreng. 



Santo Domingo. The fruit is edible.' 



M. coccigera Linn. 



West Indies. The fruit is small, purple in color when ripe and is edible.* 



M. emarginata Moc. & Sesse 



Mexico. The fruit is edible.' 

 M. fucata Ker.-Gawl. 



Jamaica. The berries are edible.* 

 M. glabra Linn. Barbados cherry. 



Tropical America. This tree is planted in most gardens in Jamaica and is cultivated 

 for its fruit in tropical America. The fruit is round, red, of the bigness of a cherry, smooth 

 skinned, and contains, within a reddish, sweetish, copiously juicy pulp, several triangular 

 stones whose sides are so accommodated to one another as to seem to make one round one 

 with sevtral furrows on the outside.' The fruit, says Schomburgk,' is much used in 

 Barbados in preserves and tarts and the taste reminds one of the raspberry rather than 

 the cherry. 

 M. grandiflora Jacq. 



Martinique. The fruit is edible.T 

 M. incana Mill. 



Honduras. The fruit is edible.* 

 M. macrophylla Willd. 



Brazil The fruit is edible. 

 M. nitida Crantz. 



Venezuela. The fruit is edible.'* 

 M. obovata H. B. & K. 



New Granada. The fnait is edible." 

 M. punicifolia Linn. 



Tropical America. The fruit is one of the size and shape of a cherry, very succulent, 

 and of a pleasant, acid flavor, says Don.** Liman '* says it makes very agreeable tarts 

 and excellent jellies. 



Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:634. 1831. 

 ? Ibid. 



Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:635. 1831- 



Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:634. 1831. 



' Sloane, H. Nat. Hist. Jam. 2:106. 1725. 



Lindley, J., and Paxton, J. Flow. Card, a: 18. 1852. 

 ' Don. G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:635. 1831. 



Ibid. 



Ibid. 

 ' Ibid. 



"Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:636. 1831. , 

 "Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:635. '831. 

 "Lunan, J. Hort. Jam. i:^g. 1814. 



