, while the still
younger and more tender leaves are eaten like cabbage.

266. LUCUMA MAMMOSUM.--This sapotaceous plant is cultivated for its
fruit, which is called marmalade, on account of its containing a
thick agreeably flavored pulp, bearing some resemblance in
appearance and taste to quince marmalade. A native of South
America.

267. MABA GEMINATA.--The ebony wood of Queensland. The heart wood is
black, and the outside wood of a bright red color. It is
close-grained, hard, heavy, elastic and tough, and takes a high
polish.

268. MACADAMIA TERNIFOLIA.--An Australian tree which produces an edible
nut called the Queensland nut. This fruit is about the size of a
walnut, and within a thick pericarp, a smooth brown-colored nut,
inclosing a kernel of a rich and agreeable flavor, resembling in
some degree that of a filbert.

269. MACHAERIUM FIRMUM.--A South American tree which furnishes a portion
of the rosewood of commerce. Various species of the genus, under
the common Brazilian name of Jaccaranda, are said to yield this
wood, but there is some uncertainty about the origin of the
various commercial rosewoods.

270. MACLURA TINCTORIA.--The fustic tree. Large quantities of the
bright yellow wood of this tree are exported from South America
for the use of dyers, who obtain from it shades of yellow, brown,
olive, and green. A concentrated decoction of the wood deposits,
on cooling, a yellow crystalline matter called Morine. This tree
is sometimes called old fustic, in order to distinguish it from
another commercial dye called young fustic, which is obtained in
Europe from a species of Rhus.

271. MACROPIPER METHYSTICUM.--A plant of the pepper family, which
furnishes the root called Ava by the Polynesians. It has narcotic
properties, and is employed medicinally, but is chiefly remarkable
for the value attached to it as a narcotic and stimulant beverage,
of which the natives partake before they commence any important
business or religious rites. It is used by chewing the root and
extracting the juice, and has a calming rather than an
intoxicating effect. It is a filthy preparation, and only partaken
of by the lower classes of Feejeeans.

272. MACROZAMIA DENISONII.--An Australian cycad, the seeds of which
contain a large am