Victoria-Vitex (Sturtevant, 1919)
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Contents
Victoria regia Lindl.
Nymphaeceae. WATER LILY. WATER MAIZE.
Guiana. The Spaniards collect the seeds and eat them roasted.
Vigna catjang Walp.
Leguminosae. COWPEA. JERUSALEM PEA. MARBLE PEA.
East Indies. This plant is cultivated in Portugal and Italy. In India, varieties with white, brown and black seeds are cultivated. In Martinique, the seeds are highly esteemed as an article of food. In the southern states, this species has many permanent varieties, as Red Cowpea, Black-eyed pea and so on. So conspicuous is this species that in some localities it is made to carry the name of all others, all being referred to as the cowpea. This plant is extensively cultivated in India for its pods, which are often two feet in length, contain a number of pealike seeds, called by the Hindus chowlee, and form a considerable article of food. In China, the green pods are used as a vegetable.
Vigna glabra Savi.
CHINESE DOLICHOS. CLAY PEA.
A native of tropical Africa; cultivated at Karagwe on the upper Nile, where it is called koondii. The seeds are eaten. This plant is commonly cultivated about Bombay for its pods and pulse. There are several varieties of this bean in India, white, red, dun, green, black; they vary also greatly in size but are distinguished by their form, which differs from all the other kinds in the beans being truncated at either end. Pirminger speaks of it, however, as a bean of indifferent quality. In China, the pods are eaten as a string bean. In Egypt, it furnishes a vegetable food. In the Barbados, this species furnishes the calavances, or red beans, of Long and is also called Chinese dolichos and clay pea. The pulse is called by the Hindus chowlu, by the Chinese tow-cok.
Vigna lanceolata Benth.
VIGNA.
Tropical and subtropical Australia. According to Mueller, the plant is available for culinary purposes.
Villaresia congonha Miers.
Olacineae.
Brazil. The leaves, dried and pulverized, are used as tea in Brazil.
Viola odorata Linn.
Violarieae. VIOLET.
Europe, Africa and northern Asia. This violet is esteemed by the Egyptians and Turks for use in sorbet, which they make of violet sugar dissolved in water.
Viola palmata Linn.
VIOLET. WILD OKRA.
Eastern North America. The plant is mucilaginous and is employed by negroes in the southern United States for making soup and is called wild okra.
Vitex cienkowskii Kotschy & Peyr.
Verbenaceae.
Tropical Africa. The sweet, olive-shaped fruit, says Schweinfurth, is relished exceedingly by the natives of central Africa.
Vitex doniana Sweet.
Tropical Africa. The fruit is eatable, says Sabine, but is inferior to both the sugar and yellow plums of that country.
