[MV]. Lassen, Indische Alterthumskunde, bd. i. s. 260. See an interesting account of the Banyan tree in Forbes’ Oriental Memoirs, vol. i. pp. 25–28. The tree there described (the famous Cubbeer-Burr) comprises 350 large trunks and more than 3000 small ones, and extends over an area of several thousand feet. Milton alludes to the Banyan tree in his Paradise Lost, book ix. line 1100, &c.—Ed.
[MW]. Historiæ Venetæ, 1551, fol. 83.
[MX]. Annales de la Société d’Agriculture de la Rochelle, 1843, p. 380.
[MY]. Darwin, Journal of Researches into Nat. Hist., 1845, p. 239.
[MZ]. Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, vol. ii. p. 363.
[NA]. Flora Antarctica, p. vii, 1 and 178; and Camille Montague, Botanique cryptogame du Voyage de la Bonite, 1846, p. 36.
[NB]. General Remarks on the Botany of Terra Australis, p. 4.
[NC]. Humboldt, de distributione geographica Plantarum, p. 23.
[ND]. Essai élémentaire de Géographie botanique, p. 62.
[NE]. Formerly librarian to Sir Joseph Banks, now President of the Linnæan Society.—Ed.