410 STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 



The fruit is about the size of a Golden Pippin apple, white within, membranous and 

 contains numerous seeds involved in an agreeable, sweet-acid pulp.' 



P. herbertiana Bot. Reg. 



Australia. According to Fraser, in New Holland the oval fruit is produced in great 

 quantities and affords a grateful flavor.* 



P. incamata Linn, maypops. 



Subtropical America from Virginia to Kentucky and southward. It has been culti- 

 vated by the Indians from early times. This is the maracock observed by Strachey' 

 on the James River, " of the bigness of a green apple, and hath manie azurine or blew 

 kemells, Hke as a pomegranat, a good sommer cooling fruit." 



P. laurifolia Linn, water lemon. 



Tropical America. In Jamaica, the fruit is much esteemed, says Lunan,* being very 

 delicate. It is the size of an egg and full of a very agreeable, gelatinous pulp in which 

 the seeds are lodged. Titford ' says the fruit is very good. 



P. ligularis A. Juss. 



Tropical America. The fruit is edible.' 



P. lutea Linn. 



West Indies. The plant bears edible fruit.' 



P. macrocarpa Mast, passion flower. 



Rio Negro region of South America and cultivated in greenhouses for its large flowers. 

 The fruits are very large, sometimes weighing as much as eight pounds. The fleshy aril 

 attached to the seeds or the juicy pulp is the part eaten.' 



P. maliformis Linn, conch apple, conch nut. sweet calabash, water lemon. 

 West Indies. The fruit is roimd, smooth, about two inches in diameter, of a dingy 

 color when ripe. It has a pale yellow, agreeable, gelatinous pulp, which is eaten with 

 wine and sugar.' 



P. quadrangularis Linn, granadilla. 



Tropical America. The fruit is of an oval shape and of various sizes from that of 

 a goose egg to a middling-sized muskmelon; it is of a greenish-yellow color, having a spongy 

 rind about a finger in thickness, which becomes soft as the fruit ripens, contains a succulent 

 pulp of a water color and sweet smell, is of a very agreeable, pleasant, sweet-acid taste 



' Lunan, J. Horf. Jam. i:<^66. 1814. 



' Hooker, W. J. Bot. Misc. 1:247, 248. 1830. 



'Strachey, W. Trav. Va. Hakl. Soc. Ed. 6:119. 1849. 



* Lunan, J. Hort. Jam. 1:39. 1814. 



' Titford, W. J. Hort. Bot. Amer. 91. 1812. 



Masters, M. T. Treas. Bot. 2:?,^i. 1870. 

 ' Ibid. 



' Ibid. 



Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Ph. 3:51. 1834. 



