536 AUSTRALTAX INDrGEX0U3 IIUMAV FOOD -PROVIDING PLAXTS, 



The lower yellow pulpy part of the drupes, and also the tender 

 white base of the leaves, are eaten raw or boiled during times of 

 scarcity in India {Cyclop, of India). 



Northern A.ustralia. 



159. Pandanus PEDUNCtTLATUs, R.Br., N.O. Pandanete, B.Fl., 

 vii., 149. 



" Screw Pine," " Bread fruit." The " Wynnum " of Queens- 

 land aboriginals. 



The kernels of the fruit are eagerly eaten by the aborigines, 

 as are also the mucilaginous young parts of the leaves, <tc. 



New South Wales and Queensland. 



160. Panicum decompositum, E.Br., (Syn. F. Icevinode, Lindl. ; 

 P. proliferum, F.v.M. ; P. amahile, Balansa), N.O. Gra- 

 mineae, B.Fl. vii., 489. 



" Native Millet," " Umbrella grass." The seed used to be called 

 " Cooly " by western New South Wales aboriginals, and " Tindil " 

 by the aboriginals of Cloncurry River, North Queensland. 



The grains pounded yield excellent food, although the grains 

 are rather small. 



This plant is not endemic in Australia. 



All the colonies except Tasmania. 



161. Parinarium Nonda, i^.u.i/., N.O. Pvosacete, B.FL, ii., 426. 



The " Nonda-tree " of N.E. Australia. 



The aborigines use the esculent drupes as food When ripe 

 they taste somewhat like a mealy potato, with, however, a trace of 

 that astringency so common to Australian fruits. They resemble 

 in size and appearance a yellow egg-plum. Leichhardt, in his 

 Overland journey to Port Essington, p. 315, descril)es the tree 

 and its fruit, and also states that he found the fruit in the dilly- 

 bags of the natives, and also abundantly in the stomachs of emus. 



Queensland and Northern Australia. 



