[189] Thomas, Statistique de Bourbon, ii. p. 18.

[190] The catalogue of the botanical gardens of Buitenzorg, 1866, p. 222, says expressly that the Manihot utilissima comes from Bourbon and America.

[191] Aypi, mandioca, manihot, manioch, yuca, etc., in Pohl, Icones and Desc., i. pp. 30, 33. Martius, Beiträge z. Ethnographie, etc., Braziliens, ii. p. 122, gives a number of names.

[192] Thonning (in Schumacher, Besk. Guin.), who is accustomed to quote the common names, gives none for the manioc.

[193] J. Müller, in Prodromus, xv., sect. 1, p. 1057.

[194] Kunth, in Humboldt and B., Nova Genera, ii. p. 108.

[195] Pohl, Icones et Descr., i. p. 36, pl. 26.

[196] Müller, in Prodromus.

[197] De Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie, etc., i. pp. 19, 136.

[198] Piso, Historia Naturalis Braziliæ, in folio, 1658, p. 55, cum icone.