BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA SHEET

and Solanum indicum. The most important food-dietary reports from Nigeria,
however, were produced by Bascom (1951a; 1951b) but while mentioning use of
edible wild plants, he provides only vernacular terms.
Cameroons
An account by Malzy (1954) identified the basic botanical resources
of Cameroons, while de Garine (1980), working among the Massa and Mussey
peoples, provides dietary information -- but only passing reference to dietary
utilization of wild plants as food.
Zaire (Congo)
Baxter and Bush (1953, p. 44), working among the Azande, identified
dietary use of wild grasses, fruits, leafy vegetables, and roots and edible
mushrooms, especially during the period immediately preceeding harvest. Bokoam
and Droogers (1975) provide a basic ethnobotanical listing of more than 100
plants used by the Wagenia for housing, food, fishing, medicine, and ritual.
Reports by Thoen et al. (1973) and Parent and Thoen (1977) identify more than
twenty species of edible mushrooms, noting that more than 20 tons of these
products are consumed annually within Zaire (Table 14).
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