[239] Dodoens, Pemptades, p. 687.
[240] Pliny, Hist., l. 19, c. 6.
[241] He will treat of this in a publication entitled Cibaria, which will shortly appear.
[242] Géog. Bot. Raisonnée, p. 829.
[243] Roxburgh, Fl. Ind.; edit. 1832, vol. ii. p. 142.
[244] Piddington, Index.
[245] Loureiro, Fl. Cochin., p. 251.
[246] Linnæus, Species, p. 429.
[247] Hasselquist, Voy. and Trav., 1766, pp. 281, 282.
[248] Sibthorp, Prodr.