Southern states of America. The fruit, according to Browne, may beeaten boiled or roasted as a chestnut. == ''Afzelia africana'' Sm. ==''Leguminosae''. African tropics. A portion of the seed is edible. == ''Afzelia quanzensis'' Welw. ==MAKOLA. Upper Nile. The young purple-tinted leaves are eaten as a spinach. == ''Agapetes saligna'' Benth. & Hook. ==''Vacciniaceae''. East Indies. The leaves are used as a substitute for tea by the natives ofSikkim.