[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.