[MB]. Rélat. hist., t. i., p. 282.
[MC]. Grundzüge der Botanik, 1843, § 1003.
[MD]. Asia Portuguesa, t. i., cap. 2., pp. 14, 18.
[ME]. Compare also Barros, Asia, dec. i. liv. ii., cap. 2, t. i. (Lisboa, 1778,) p. 148.
[MF]. Navarrete, t. v, pp. 8, 247, 401.
[MG]. Examen critique de l’Hist. de la Géographie, t. v. pp. 129–132.
[MH]. Ramusio, vol. i. p. 109.
[MI]. Flore de Sénégambie p. 76.
[MJ]. This tree was formerly called “the Ethiopian sour gourd;” Julius Scaliger, who gave it the name of Guanabanus, instances one, which seventeen men with outstretched arms could not encompass. The wood is very perishable, and the negroes place in the hollow of these trees the corpses of their conjurors, or of such persons who they suppose would enchant or desecrate the ground, if buried in the usual way.—Ed.
[MK]. Familles des Plantes d’Adanson, 1763, P. I. pp. ccxv-ccxviii. The fourteenth century is here stated, but this is no doubt an error.