FOODS, FOOD-STUFFS, AND FOOD-ADJUNL 75. 57 



'CHINESE PASSION -FRUITS,' some Solanaceous 

 species ; LOQUATS, or Japanese Medlars (Eriobotrya 

 japonica, Lindl), first introduced by Robert Fortune ; 

 KUMQUATS (dims japonica, Hook, fil.), another of 

 Fortune's discoveries, which are sent over in syrup ; 

 YANG-MAES (Myrica Nagi, Thunb.) of Chusan, a hardy 

 plant introduced by Fortune in 1844; JAPONICAS 

 (Zizyphus sinensis, Lam.) ; and the PRICKLY PEAR, or 

 ' INDIAN FIG ' (Opuntia Ficus-indica, Webb), which has 

 become a regular article of importation from Algeria. 

 CAROB BEANS, St. John's Bread, or Algaroba 

 (Ceratonia Siliqua, L.), pods containing a quantity 

 of saccharine pulp, but * by no means deficient in 

 flesh-formers/* were largely used for our cavalry- 

 horses in the Peninsular War, and are now exten- 

 sively imported for the manufacture of cattle-food, 

 though in 1854 they were but little known in this 

 country.-)- They are eaten by children, but contain 

 butyric acid, which is apt to become rancid, and 

 being hygroscopic, they are also liable to mouldiness. 



/. NUTS.t 



Nuts are rich in nitrogenous matter, in addition to 

 the 25 to 50 of fixed oil or fat. 



The HAZEL-NUT (Corylus Avellana, L.) is the most 

 familiar. Its varieties, the Filberts, white and red 

 (vars. alba and rubrd), and the Cob-nuts (vzrs.grandis, 



* Church, 'Food,' p. 124. See also ' Kew Museum Guide,' 

 p. 50. 



f P. L. Simmonds, ' Commercial Products of Vegetable 

 Kingdom,' 1854. 



% P. L. Simmonds, in ' Journ. Soc. Arts/ xx (1872), p. 475, 

 and * Pharm. Journ.,' ii (1872), pp. 958 and 1037. 



