568 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



in the Mauritius. The plant is used as a spinach in Tongatabu but not in New 

 Zealand.' 



T. implexicoma Hook. f. Australian spinach, ice plant. 



Extra-tropic Australia, New Zealand and Chatham Island. As a spinach plant, 

 this species is as valuable as T. expansa.^ 



Tetramicra bicolor Rolfe. Orchideae. 



Brazil. The fragrant fruit of this orchid has the odor of the Tonquin bean. It is 

 sweeter than vanilla and is less penetrating.' 



Teucrium scorodonia Linn. Labiatae. wood germander, wood sage. 



Europe. This is an extremely bitter plant with the smell and taste of hops and is 

 said to be substituted for hops in ale in the Island of Jersey.* 



Thapsia moniza Masf. Umbelliferae. carrot tree. 



Canary Islands. This plant can be gathered, says Black,* only by expert cragsmen 

 let down the cliffs by ropes. The roots are eaten raw or boiled, when raw tasting like 

 earth-nuts, and stringy and insipid when boiled. It is called the carrot tree, says Mueller,' 

 but the root is inferior to a carrot. 



Thelygonum cynocrambe Linn. Urticaceae. dog's cabbage. 



Orient, East Indies and Mediterranean countries. This plant, says Syme,' is sub- 

 acid and slightly purgative but is sometimes used as a potherb. 



Theobroma bicolor Htunb. & Bonpl. Sterculiaceae. cacao. 



New Granada. This species replaces the cacao in part in the West Indies and South 

 America and the seeds are brought into commerce.* 



T. cacao Linn, cacao, cocoa. 



Tropical America. This is the best-known species of the genus and the bulk of the 

 cacao, or cocoa, of commerce is produced by it.' It is largely cidtivated in Guayaquil, 

 Venezuela, Trinidad, Grenada, Jamaica and elsewhere in tropical America. Cacao is 

 also grown as an introduced plant in the Mauritius and Bourbon. The fruit is an oblong- 

 ovate capsule or berry, six or eight inches in length, with a thick, coriaceous and somewhat 

 ligneous rind, enclosing a whitish pulp in which nimierous seeds are embedded. These 

 are ovate, somewhat compressed, about the size of an almond and consist of an interior 

 thin shell and a brown, oily kernel. Separated from the matter in which they are enveloped, 



' Unger, F. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 356. 1859. 



Mueller, F. 5e/. P/i. 478. 1891. 



' Mcx)re, T. Treas. Bot. 2:675. 1870. (Leptotes bicolor) 



* Smith, A. Treas. Bot. 2:1127. 1870. 



' Black, A. A. Treas. Bot. 2:750. 1870. (Moniza edulis) 



' Mueller, F. Sel. Pis. 478. 1891. (T. edulis) 



'Syme, J. T. Treas. Bot. 2:1142. 1870. 



Unger, F. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 321. 1859. 



' Smith, A. Treas. Bot. 3:1143. 1870. 



