A description of some Chinese vegetable food materials and their nutritive and economic value . eidentified. The Chinese drug stores also furnish some curious objects of a veg-etable nature. Among these were identified, chiefly through the reportof Hanbury ^ on the Chinese materia medica, the fruit stalks of Hoveniadulcis, the seeds of Torreya nuci/era, Quisqualis indica, Momordica{Muricia) cochinchinensis, Terminalia chehula, Sterculia platani/oliajIpomaa hederacea, Chalmougra sp., Melia sp., and the fruits of aspecies of Gardenia. Imp. Univ. Col. Agr. [Tokyo] Bui., Vol. 2 (1894), p. 103. 2 U
A description of some Chinese vegetable food materials and their nutritive and economic value . eidentified. The Chinese drug stores also furnish some curious objects of a veg-etable nature. Among these were identified, chiefly through the reportof Hanbury ^ on the Chinese materia medica, the fruit stalks of Hoveniadulcis, the seeds of Torreya nuci/era, Quisqualis indica, Momordica{Muricia) cochinchinensis, Terminalia chehula, Sterculia platani/oliajIpomaa hederacea, Chalmougra sp., Melia sp., and the fruits of aspecies of Gardenia. Imp. Univ. Col. Agr. [Tokyo] Bui., Vol. 2 (1894), p. 103. 2 U. S. Dept. Agr., Yearbook 1895, p. 213. 3 Indiana Sta. Rept. 1897, p. 16. ?• Scieutitic Papers, 1876, pp. 228-254, Lb Mr07. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING 1^ .ETTER OF TRANSMIITAL U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, Washinrjton, i). C, July 15, 1899. Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a report by Walter , instructor in chemistry at the University of California, de-scribing some Chinese vegetable food materials and their nutritive andeconomic value. These foods are used to a considerable extent by the Chinese popula-tion in San Francisco and other cities in the United States, and most,il not all, of them are staple articles of diet in China and the seems probable that some of the vegetables may become generallyand favorably known in the United States. Very little information has been hitherto available concerning manyof these materials, and it is believed the report is a useful contributionto the knowledge of the food of mankind. Tlie report is respectfully submitted, with the recommendation thatit be published as bulletin No. G8 of this
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