Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[289] Nadeaud, Enum. des Plantes Indigènes, p. 40.

[290] Engler, in D. C. Monog. Phaner.

[291] Bentham, Flora Austr., viii. p. 155.

[292] Engler, in D. C. Monogr. Phaner., vol. ii. p. 313.

[293] Gardener’s Chronicle, 1873, p. 610; Flore des Serres et Jardins, t. 1958, 1959; Hooker, Bot. Mag., t. 6195.

[294] Franchet and Savatier, Enum. Pl. Japoniæ, ii. p. 7.

[295] M. Sagot, Bull. de la Soc. Bot. de France, 1871, p. 306, has well described the growth and cultivation of yams, as he has studied them in Cayenne.

[296] Kunth, Enumeratio, vol. v.

[297] These are D. globosa, alata, rubella, fasciculata, purpurea, of which two or three appear to be merely varieties.

[298] Piddington, Index.