[299] Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeyl., p. 326.

[300] Decaisne, Histoire et Culture de l’Igname de Chine, in the Revue Horticole, 1st July and Dec. 1853; Flore des Serres et Jardins, x. pl. 971.

[301] On the Study and Value, etc., p. 12.

[302] Franchet and Savatier, Enum. Plant. Japoniæ, ii. p. 47.

[303] Blume, Enum. Plant. Javæ, p. 22.

[304] Forster, Plant. Esculent., p. 56; Rumphius, Amboin, vol. v., pl. 120, 121, etc.

[305] Hughes, Hist. Nat. Barb., 1750, p. 226.

[306] Humboldt, Nouvelle Espagne, 2nd edit., vol. ii. p. 468.

[307] Ibid., p. 403.

[308] Hænke, in Presl, Rel., p. 133.