sturtevant's notes on edible plants 561 



root loses some of its original acridity and bitterness.' The roots are rasped and macerated 

 for four or five days in water and a fecula is separated in the same manner that sago is 

 and, like it, is employed as an article of food by the inhabitants of the Malayan Islands 

 and the Moluccas.^ In Otaheite, they make cakes of the meal of the tubers. The tubers 

 form an article of diet in China and Cochin China ' and in Travancore, where they are 

 much eaten, the natives mix agreeable acids with them to subdue their natural pungency.* 

 From the tubers, the main supply of the Fiji arrowroot is prepared,^ and an arrowroot 

 is also made from this plant in the East Indian province of Arracan. 



Tacsonia mollissima H. B. & K. Passifloreae. 



New Granada. In India, says Firminger,* this plant bears a great abundance of a 

 pale green fruit of the size of a goose egg and of a rather agreeable flavor. 



T. mixta Juss. 



Tropical America. The fruit is edible.' 



T. tripartita Juss. 



Ecuador. It bears edible fruit.' 



Tagetes lucida Cav. Compositae. sweet mace. 



Mexico. This plant, says Loudon,' is much used in Nottinghamshire, England, as 

 an ingredient of soups instead of tarragon. In France, it is grown in the flower garden.'" 



Talauma plumierii DC. Magnoliaceae. 



West Indies. The flowers are used by the distillers of Martinique to sweeten 

 liquors.'' 



Talinum patens WiUd. Portulaceae. 



Tropical America. In Brazil, St. Hilaire " says the leaves are cooked as are those 

 of purslane. 



Talisia olivaeformis Radlk. Sapindaceae. 



New Granada. The fruit is the size and shape of an olive, jet black and of a pleasant 

 taste." 



' Unger, F. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 308. 1859. 

 Royle, J. F. lUustr. Bot. Himal. 1:377. 1839. 

 ' Ibid. 

 < Ibid. 



' Mueller, F. Sel. Pis. 473. 1891. 

 Firminger, T. A. C. Card. Ind. 198. 1874. 

 ' Carruthers Treas. Bot. 2:1119. 1870. 

 Ibid. 



9 Loudon, J. C. Hort. 685. i860. 

 Vilmorin f /. PI. Ter. 1123. 1S70. 3rd Ed. 

 " Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Ph. 1:85. 1831. 

 " St. Hilaire, A. Fl. Bras. Merid. 2:193. 1829. 

 " Don, G. Hist. Dichl. Pis. 1:672. 1831. 



