352 STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 



surrounds the seeds are very bitter, but the intermediate flesh is sweet and aromatic and 

 "is eaten, cut into slices and steeped in wine or made into preserves of various kinds." 



Mammillaria fissurata Engelm. Cacteae. dry whiskey. 



Mexico. This plant is sometimes called dry whiskey from the fact that when chewed 

 it produces more or less intoxication. 



M. meiacantha Engelm. 



Texas. The oblong, scarlet berries are very good to eat.* 



M. simplex Haw. 



Tropical America. Unger' says its berries are edible. This species yields a milky 

 juice that is sweet and wholesome. 



M. vivipara Haw. 



Upper Louisiana. The flowers are large and red; the fruit is the size of a grape, green 

 and edible. 



Mangifera foetida Lour. Anacardiaceae. horse mango. 



A tree of the Malayan Archipelago. The horse mango is cultivated by the Burmese, 

 who esteem the fleshy, strong-scented fruit.* Don * says it is tmwholesome but is eaten 

 by the Malays. 



M. indica Linn, mango. 



Tropical eastern Asia. The mango grows abimdantly in India, where many varieties 

 are ciiltivated, and the fruit of some is esteemed as most delicious. In north and central 

 India, says Brandis,* the fruit of imgrafted trees is generally stringy with a strong, tiu-pentine 

 flavor. It, nevertheless, forms an important article of food for large classes of the popu- 

 lation. The fruit of good grafts is excellent, soft, juicy and with a delicious, aromatic 

 flavor. In Burma, the mango is not generally grafted, for seeds of a good kind, as a rule^ 

 produce good frviit of a similar description. This seems to be the fruit seen by Friar 

 Jordanus,^ about 1300, who calls it aniha. The mango was introduced to Jamaica in 1782.* 

 In 1880, 21 frmtful and superior varieties were growing at the Botanical Gardens in Trini- 

 dad.' At Cayenne, it did not exist before the beginning of the present century." Its 

 introduction into Brazil was more ancient as the seeds came thence to Barbados in the 

 middle of the eighteenth century." In Martinique, by grafting, a dozen very distinct 



* Treas. Bot. 2:714. 1870. 



'Havard, V. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 520. 1885. 

 Unger, F. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 333. 1859. 



* Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 445. 1879. 

 'Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 2:64. 1832. 

 Brandis. Forest Fl. 126. 1874. 



' Jordanus Fr. Wonders East. Hakl. Soc. Ed. 14. 1863. 



' Macfadyen 7a>. 1:221. 1837. 



' Prestoe Rpt. Bot. Card. Trinidad 32. 1880. Printed in 1881. 

 " De CandoUe, A. Geog. Bot. 2:876. 1855. 

 " De CandoUe, A. Orig. Cult. Pis. 202. 1885. 



