STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 39 1 



O. gratissimiun Linn. 



East Indies. This species is recorded as indigenous in India, the South Sea Islands 

 and Brazil.' According to Loureiro,^ it occurs in the kitchen gardens of Cochin China. 

 It was cultivated in England in 1752 by a Mr. Miller.' Porskal * gives as the Arabic 

 name, hobokbok. In French gardens, this plant is called basilic en arbre. Vilmorin * 

 thinks, however, that the French form may be the 0. suave Willd., but of this he is not 

 certain. 



Ocotea pretiosa Benth. & Hook. f. Laurineae. 



A Brazilian tree which yields a bark whose properties are similar to those of 

 cinnamon.' 



Odina schimperi Hochst. Anacardiaceae. 



Abyssinia. This plant is the m'oooomboo of the upper Nile. The fruit is scarcely 

 edible, according to Grant.' 



Oenanthe peucedanifolia PoUich. Umbelliferae. wild parsley. 



Europe and adjoining Asia. The roots have occasionally been eaten.' 



O. pimpinelloides Linn, meadow parsley. 



Mediterranean coimtries. Its fleshy tubercles, according to Lindley,' have occasion- 

 ally been eaten. 



O. sarmentosa Presl. 



Western North America. The tubers form one of the dainty dishes of the Oregon 

 Indians. They are black, but, when boiled Hke potatoes, they burst open lengthwise, 

 showing a snowy-white, farinaceous substance, which has a sweet, cream-like taste with 

 a slight parsley flavor.'" 



O. stolonifera Wall. 



East Indies, Java and China. The plant is served as a green in Japan." 



Oenocarpus bacaba Mart. Palmae. bacaba oil palm. 



Guiana and the Amazon. The fruit yields a colorless, sweet oil, used at Para for 

 adulterating olive oil and excellent for cooking and for lamps. It is called bacaba.'* 



> MueUer, F. Sel. Pis. 143. 1876. 



Loureiro Fl. Cochin. 369. 1790. 



' Martyn Miller's Card. Diet. 1807. 



Forskal Fl. Aeg.-Arab c. xiv. 1775. 

 'Vilmorin Us Pis. Potag. 33. 1883. 



Treai. 5o/. 2:738, 739. 1870. 



' Speke, J. H. Journ. Disc. Source Nile 565. 1864. 



Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pis. 291. 1879 



Ibid. 



^U. S. D. A. Rpl. ^OT. 1870. {Helosciadium calif ornicum) 

 u Georgeson i4OTer. Card. 653. 1891. 

 "Smith, A. Treaj. Bo/. 2:804. i"?"- 



