GLOSSARY OF WEST INDIAN TERMS 



ANAUCO — the mountain immortelle {E. micropteryx, Poepp). 



B. 208, ETC. — seedling sugar canes raised by the Barbados 



Department of Agriculture. 

 BLACK BLIGHT — investment of leaves, fruits, etc., with a sooty 



covering of fungus mycelium (see page 44). 

 BLACK EYE PEA — a form of cow pea. 

 BLUGGOE — a coarse cooking banana in Grenada (the moko of 



Trinidad). 

 BOCARE — the lowland immortelle (£". glauca, Willd). 

 Bourbon cane — a variety of sugar-cane, in general cultivation 



in the W.I. until near the end of the Nineteenth Century ; 



believed to have been introduced from Otaheite. 

 Canary banana — see Chinese banana. 

 CANE-FLY — Stenocranus {Delphax) saccharivorus. 

 CASSAVA — Manihot utilissima. 

 Chinese banana — Musa Cavendishii, Lamb ; also called Canary 



or Governor banana, 

 coco — Jamaican name for Xanthosoma sp. 

 corn — confined in the West Indies to maize. 

 COTTON STAiNERS — plant bugs of the genus Dysdercus. 

 COW-PEA — Vigna catjang. 

 Criollo cacao — a superior and more delicate variety of cacao 



producing white beans, apparently at one time in general 



cultivation in Trinidad, but now almost extinct in its 



pure form. 

 CUSHION — the raised areas on cacao stems developed in con- 

 nection with repeated localised production of flowers 



and fruit. 

 CUTLASS — a large and heavy knife used for chopping, pruning 



and light digging. 

 D. 109, ETC. — seedling sugar-canes raised by the British Guiana 



Department of Agriculture. 

 DASHEEN — a cultivated aroid of the genus Colocasia, a common 



food plant in the wetter islands. 



